Avoidance doesn’t always look like running away.
Sometimes it looks productive.

Research it.
Analyze it.
Replay it.
Plan for it.
Talk about it.
Figure it out.
Then figure it out again.

You can spend enormous amounts of time thinking about something while never quite touching what sits underneath all that thinking.

Maybe you’re disappointed.
Sad.
Embarrassed.
Uncertain.
Angry.
Scared.

The goal isn’t to stop thinking or force yourself to feel something.
It’s simply worth noticing when thinking has stopped helping you understand and started helping you stay busy.

Ask yourself: What feeling might I experience if I stopped working so hard to figure this out?
Sometimes the mind’s busiest projects are protecting us from surprisingly simple human feelings.