When we feel afraid and overwhelmed in the face of not knowing how to navigate a situation, when anxiety and the need to flee from potential failure arise, rather than avoiding the experience and unleashing a flurry of self-attacks, we need to learn a new response. We need to turn toward our fear, to practice staying with it, feeling our anxiety, a

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Before meeting the tarantula, the participants had been divided into several groups. Each was primed with some simple tactics by the UCLA scientist conducting the experiment. Some were told to distract themselves, or to think about the spider in a less negative way. But one group was instructed to do something more specific: to label their emotions

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