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#473 | The Tools You Need to Stop Emotionally Numbing

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Duration: 00:19:28
Publish Date: 2026-01-26 08:00:00
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In a culture obsessed with optimization, control, and staying positive at all costs, emotional numbness has quietly become a survival strategy. In this episode of Evolve Ventures Tech, we sit inside the tension most people avoid, the moments where discomfort, grief, and unprocessed emotion get pushed aside in the name of productivity, resilience, or growth.

We challenge the assumption that not feeling is strength and expose the long-term cost of emotional suppression on the body, the nervous system, and the life you are building. This episode holds space for what happens when avoidance looks functional, when “doing well” becomes another way to run, and when emotional signals are ignored until they demand attention.

This is not about intensity. It is about honesty, capacity, and what it actually means to stay alive to your own experience in a world that rewards disconnection.

Here are the related episodes, each one builds on today’s conversation:
#453 | What it REALLY Feels Like with High Quality Therapy - https://apple.co/4anaO6d
#457 | Polyvagal Theory: The Key to Well-Being - https://apple.co/4bjIu58 

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