When Feelings Are Not Rational

When Feelings Are Not Rational
I’m going to be honest here: for me this article is a manifesto inspired by personal therapy (yes, I have a therapist, too). A manifesto about legitimising one’s feelings and accepting all sides of one’s personality. Probably like many others, I tend to use rationalisation as a defence mechanism. To put it simply: sometimes I think instead of feeling. What is the source of this defence? As a therapist, I can answer that it comes from our childhood. W...