Heart Reaching Through My Fingertips—A Dance Therapy Session in San Francisco
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Heart Reaching Through My Fingertips—A Dance Therapy Session in San Francisco

Dance therapy allows us access to the parts of ourselves that are best expressed through metaphor and poetry. If we use the language of the body to describe our emotions and feelings we automatically lapse into metaphoric speech. Anxiety becomes “my stomach was in knots,” fear morphs into “I felt my heart drop,” and sadness or depression says “every part of me feels heavy.”

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Anxiety Therapy San Francisco—How To Control Your Anxiety: a Paradox
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Anxiety Therapy San Francisco—How To Control Your Anxiety: a Paradox

As a therapist, one of the chief reasons people come to me is to learn how to “control” their emotions, especially anxiety. Ironically, trying to control their emotions may be what leads to a problem in the first place. For most people controlling emotions looks like stuffing their emotions down, ignoring them, or simply pretending that they are born without emotions. This is problematic for a number of reasons.

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