You Actually Should Be Very Wary About Trusting Just Your Intuition

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The Words We Use Matter: On Feelings

When providing psychoeducational lessons on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), I encourage people to consider that the words we use matter. Now, I invite you to contemplate the rationale underlying this conclusion.

Regarding my approach to care for mental, emotional, and behavioral health (collectively “mental health”), I invite people to consider scripts which are rational (in accordance with both logic and reason) – especially regarding events which correlate with strong feelings.

On the topic of feelings, I clarify what this element represents in regard to the construct of beliefs. As REBT incorporates constructivism and postmodernism into this psychotherapeutic modality, emphasis on proper use of “feelings” relates to the validity of one’s propositions.

For context, the American Psychological Association (APA) defines validity as “the characteristic of being founded on truth, accuracy, fact, or law,” and defines a proposition as “anything that can be asserted or denied and that is capable of being either true or false.”

A “feeling” is either: 1. an emotion (i.e., joy, fear, anger, sadness, disgust, surprise, etc.) or 2. a sensation (e.g., tightened or stiffened jaw). If the word “feel” (or any derivative thereof) can be replaced with “hunch,” “thought,” or “belief” (or any derivative thereof), then it’s not a feeling.

Thus, it’s invalid to say something akin to “It feels like you’re just pedantic,” because what one intends on communicating is “It seems [gives the impression of being] as though you’re just pedantic.” Noteworthy, there’s a foundation for quibbling with this sort of word misuse.

Using the ABC model, unhelpful Beliefs which cause unpleasant Consequences are rigorously Disputed. Yet, feelings (i.e., emotions and sensations) aren’t challenged. This is important when one improperly uses “feelings” in place of Beliefs, as feelings instead regard Consequences.

For illustration, I don’t Dispute whether or not a person feels angry or feels a stiffening of one’s jaw. Yet, I do Dispute the Beliefs, not “feelings,” that cause one’s actual feelings. Thus, proper use of feelings language allows a person to examine the logic and reason one uses for Beliefs.

Here, “logic” is the interrelation or sequence of facts or events when seen as inevitable or predictable, and “reason” is a statement offered in explanation or justification. For instance, a modus ponens syllogism uses the following logical form: If p, then q; p; therefore, q.

As an example, if you improperly use words when practicing REBT (p), then your invalid terms may result in impaired use of the ABC model (q). You improperly use words when practicing REBT (p). Therefore, your invalid terms may result in impaired use of the ABC model (q).

More About the ABC Model – Intuition Isn’t a Feeling

REBT uses the ABC model to illustrate that when an undesirable Action occurs and you Believe an unhelpful narrative about the event, it’s your unfavorable assumption, not the occurrence itself, that causes an unpleasant Consequence. This is known as distress or disturbance.

Noteworthy, with virtually any undesirable Action that occurs, it’s your unfavorable Beliefs which cause unpleasant distress or disturbance (Consequence). Given this framing of self-distress and self-disturbance, it’s worth noting that one REBT source states (page 71):

REBT conceptualizes [distress] as healthy even though it is intense. Other approaches to therapy have as their goal the reduction of the intensity of negative emotions. They take this position because they do not keenly differentiate between healthy negative emotions (distress) and unhealthy negative emotions (disturbance).

Now, REBT keenly distinguishes between healthy distress and unhealthy disturbance. Healthy distress stems from your rational beliefs about a negative activating event [Action], whilst disturbance stems from your irrational beliefs about the same event.

Complete elimination of distress is highly unlikely in an impermanent and uncertain world wherein people conceptually suffer, struggle, and battle with, or merely experience hardship. Still, individuals often make matters worse for themselves by disturbing about such instances.

In particular, there are four predominate irrational beliefs which people often use to distress or disturb themselves: global evaluations, low frustration tolerance, awfulizing, and demandingness. When contemplating these unproductive scripts, think of the acronym GLAD.

Worth noting, the two forms of should, must, and ought demands with which people most often distress or disturb are associated with use of absolutistic and conditional beliefs. Generally speaking, these scripts serve as inflexible commands used toward oneself, others, and life.

An absolute must narrative is, “You absolutely must do as I say!” A conditional should narrative is, “Either you should do as I say, or you should be punished!” Noteworthy, in REBT literature, demandingness of this sort is said to function as a primary appraisal mechanism of self-upset.

Global evaluations (i.e., self-downing, other-downing, and life-downing), low frustration tolerance (also known as frustration intolerance), and awfulizing (e.g., terrible, horrible, etc.) function as secondary appraisal mechanisms. Together, GLAD will make you sad or mad, etc.

While still functioning as prescriptive rather than descriptive, flexible use of recommendatory, preferential, ideal, empirical, moral and ethical, and legal ought beliefs won’t inevitably cause disturbance, as they may align with distress. Rigidity versus flexibility makes a difference.

Additionally, from a psychological standpoint, people distress or disturb themselves using a Belief-Consequence (B-C) connection. Of course, this isn’t to suggest that in the context of the naturalistic or physical world there is no Action-Consequence (A-C) connection.

For a meaningful example regarding the distinction between the A-C and B-C connections, I invite you to consider that I’ve lost count of how many women have contacted me for mental health services over the years, specifically concerning a masculine approach to psychotherapy.

“I’ve tried therapy with women before,” prospective female client X may say, “and I don’t want therapy from someone who thinks like me, because that’s what got me to the point whereby I’m contacting you.” To be clear, I don’t believe that females (girls and women) are a monolith.

Nevertheless, many of my female colleagues within the mental health field apparently treat girls and women as though they’re all the same. This can be particularly unhelpful when the clients X of the world receive validation for their intuition, which the APA thusly defines:

[I]mmediate insight or perception, as contrasted with conscious reasoning or reflection. Intuitions have been characterized alternatively as quasi-mystical experiences or as the products of instinct, feeling, minimal sense impressions [i.e., sensations], or unconscious forces.

For context, the APA defines insight as “the clear and often sudden discernment of a solution to a problem by means that are not obvious and may never become so, even after one has tried hard to work out how one has arrived at the solution.” Insight likely takes place nonconsciously.

As well, the APA defines perception as “the process or result of becoming aware of objects, relationships, and events by means of the senses, which includes such activities as recognizing, observing, and discriminating.” Perception likely occurs both consciously and nonconsciously.

Noteworthy, one source states, “Intuition is intimately linked to our emotions, arising from complex neural circuits dedicated to the information processing of our feelings.” Whereas intuition regards cognition (e.g., thought), feeling relates to emotions and sensations (e.g., joy).

According to another source, “Use of intuition is sometimes referred to as responding to a ‘gut feeling’ or ‘trusting your gut.” Importantly, the APA defines trust as “reliance on or confidence in the dependability of someone or something.”

Whereas trust is often conflated with the irrational idea that the people or things in which one’s trust is placed will result in outcomes of certainty (the quality or state of being known or proved to be true), that’s not how life actually works. Thus, trust is only an imperfect prediction mode.

As an example, I trust that when I turn my faucet on, water will come out. However, there may be a water outage, so the water doesn’t come out when I trusted that it would. If trusting one’s gut isn’t an entirely useful process, why do so many people give merit to so-called gut feelings?

In strictest terms, intuition isn’t a feeling. Nevertheless, I have little doubt that many people will disagree with this claim. To offer a counterpoint about intuition not functioning as a feeling, it may be useful to consider that one source, written by a female author, thusly contends:

Intuition, you know it, but you may not trust it.

You’ve felt it before. A nudge, a funny feeling that gives you chills, or a voice questioning your next step, “Should I go this way?” Then the overthinking starts, and suddenly the moment passes.

Maybe later, you realize that small voice was right all along. You might call it a gut feeling, a knowing, or your sixth sense. But whatever name you give it, intuition is often the first voice we hear and sometimes the last one we trust.

But to trust, you need proof, right? After all, it’s data, logic rules, and analysis that offer credibility, right? You can’t just go on a feeling, can you?

Yet, when the noise dies down, something deeper inside you knows things all the data and logic in the world can’t fully explain. That’s the real meaning of intuition, an inner knowing. And it’s more powerful and practical than most of us realize.

What the female author of this source described is magical thinking, which the APA defines as “the belief that events or the behavior of others can be influenced by one’s thoughts, wishes, or rituals.” Apparently, intuition functions are a type of inner-spell that guides a person’s actions.

Such a claim is unfalsifiable (not capable of being proved false), as one may as well claim that an angel and a demon sit upon one’s opposing shoulders, guiding one’s movements through life. Such claims are absurd (ridiculously unreasonable, unsound, or incongruous)!

Consider Hitchens’s razor, proposed by the late Christopher Hitchens—what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. Now contemplate the Sagan’s standard, proposed by the late Carl Sagan— extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

This is the method of rational living that I offer to the clients X of the world. Presuming you comprehend that intuition isn’t a feeling, as absurd claims may be dismissed, I’ll now offer a meaningful example regarding the distinction between the A-C and B-C connections.

From an A-C view, client X is told by a female therapist to blindly trust her intuition (Action), as client X then uncritically concludes that all men are dangerous (Consequence). Based on intuition, client X’s conclusion is represented in the following modus ponens syllogism:

If my institution informs me that all men pose a potential danger to all women (p), then all men are inherently dangerous to all women (q). My institution informs me that all men pose a potential danger to all women (p). Therefore, all men are inherently dangerous to all women (q).

Although this may seem like a ridiculous example, I’ve experienced this narrative firsthand in both a personal and professional capacity. Now, if client X experiences fright when in the company of men, then it’s a B-C connection, not intuition, which causes an unpleasant reaction.

For example, a man enters the same elevator as client X (Action) and she Believes, “Life is worthless with men in it [G], as I can’t stand the danger that all men pose to all women [L], and it’ll be dreadful if this man harms me [A], so I absolutely must get out of the elevator [D]!”

When uncritically trusting this unaccommodating Belief, client X then feels fright and feels lightness throughout her body (Consequence). Remember, in REBT, we don’t dispute feelings! This is why the words we use matter. Client X doesn’t intuit or feel danger, she perceives it.

Addressing how people upset themselves with unhelpful attitudes, the ABC model incorporates Disputation of unproductive philosophies of life in order to explore Effective new beliefs. Whereas rigid beliefs cause self-disturbance, flexible beliefs result in an un-disturbed condition.

Rather than relying on immediate insight or perception (i.e., intuition) to cause fright, client X would do well not to blindly trust her gut. After all, so-called “gut feeling” isn’t useful in the absence of thinking which is rational (i.e., both logical and reasonable).

The Owens-Wilson Debate

Although I historically subscribed to the online content of conservative media podcaster Patrick Bet-David, conservative political commentator Candace Owens, and conservative online debater Andrew Wilson, I eventually found that their worldviews were mostly unpalatable to me.

While I could’ve tolerated and accepted their often inflexible perspectives, it wasn’t as though I absolutely should’ve subjected myself to their content any longer than I did. Alas, I gained knowledge, wisdom, and understanding about differing points of view.

Recently, I chose to watch an online debate between Owens and Wilson, moderated by Bet-David, regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk. For context, in a blogpost entitled Connie, I thusly discussed my relatively brief experience with debate when in high school:

Connie [the speech and debate teacher] taught me the difference between an irrational argument and a rational debate. Although I was familiar with arguing for the sake of argument, debate was intended to influence people by persuading them to my presented style and content of argumentation.

Expanding upon this point, I stated in a blog entry entitled Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings, “Having taken speech class in high school, I learned that the purpose of debate is to persuade the undecided audience member and not the opposing side of an argument.”

Given this context, my opinion following the Owens-Wilson debate was unchanged. My perspective related to indifference concerning the subject matter before listening to the presented arguments, as my view remains unchanged. I don’t know who murdered Charlie Kirk.

Likewise, it was apparent that neither Owens nor Wilson knew either, though there was a fair amount of communicated conjecture (inference formed without proof or sufficient evidence). Nonetheless, I appreciated the following verbal exchange between Owens and Wilson:

Owens: The intuition of just something feels wrong here, which you should follow your intuition. You should actually do that. If you say, “The COVID vaccine is running out, feels like it’s coming out too fast, and there’s too many celebrities telling me to do it, I’d like to take a pause,” that’s good. That is. You are allowed to do that. I believe in intuition.

Wilson: But hang on, let me respond a little bit here, because you’ve been going for a minute. Let me at least respond to a little bit of this. So the first thing is, is like when people bring up the COVID vaccine, not trusting the COVID vaccine in mass was the science.

That wasn’t just intuition. That was the science. There was tons of competing science. Now, they tried to suppress it, that’s true. But there was tons of competing science for why you shouldn’t take a risky mRNA vaccine, and masks, and things like this. Now, when you’re talking about intuition, though, when you say “trust your intuition,” I’m actually giving a different message.

You actually should be very wary [marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness, especially in detecting and escaping danger] about trusting just your intuition. It is true that intuition can be useful, but it has to be tempered with logic, reason, explanatory power and evidence, not just intuition.

Owens: That’s why we’re parking it aside. Intuition is the first step. Something feels off, right?

Regarding Owens’ advocacy for intuition, not a single feeling was uttered in the cited information from the debate. Rather, hunches, thoughts, beliefs, insights, perceptions, or other cognitive content, which was ostensibly misinterpreted by Owens as feelings, were discussed.

Unconditional Acceptance of Misinterpretations

A misinterpretation is failure to understand or interpret something correctly. As Owens, the clients X of the world, many of my female colleagues within the mental health field, and others apparently misinterpret what intuition is, I find it helpful to practice another major tool of REBT.

Specifically, REBT uses unconditional acceptance (UA) to relieve self-induced suffering. This is accomplished through use of unconditional self-acceptance (USA), unconditional other-acceptance (UOA), and unconditional life-acceptance (ULA).

Whereas the ABC model is a scientific approach to wellness, UA serves as a philosophical method for un-disturbing yourself. I view the former as an abortive approach to disturbance and the latter as a preventative method. Of course, not all REBT practitioners use the same style as I.

With my approach to REBT, I incorporate author Stephen Covey’s concepts regarding the circles of control, influence, and concern, as well as an area of no concern. UA maps onto the circle of control (USA), circle of influence (UOA), and circle of concern and area of no concern (ULA).

The circle of control encompasses only oneself, the circle of influence encapsulates elements which may be subject to one’s sway, the circle of concern engrosses most matters one can imagine, and the area of no concern relates to all content which isn’t yet imagined.

Regarding my circle of control and USA, I acknowledge that I’m a fallible human being who can control my reaction to misinterpretations about intuition. Concerning my circle of influence and UOA, I recognize that flawed people like Owens will likely continue misinterpreting intuition.

Relating to my circle of concern and ULA, I admit that misinterpretation of many matters is likely to occur in life. As for my area of no concern, an imaginary realm in which magical thinking actually works, I’d rather not waste what little time I have in life endorsing absurdity.

Conclusion

I maintain that the words we use matter. This is an important psychoeducational lesson when considering the ABC model—whereby irrational Beliefs are Disputed, though the Consequences (i.e., byproduct) of such cognitive-based intuition (e.g., fright) aren’t challenged.

Ergo, I maintain that intuition isn’t a feeling. With little doubt, many people will disagree with this claim. After all, many (though not all) women (and some men) maintain that intuition is something akin to a supernatural or paranormal force within each person, which is absurd.

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Thus, I’ll admit that intuition is an actual phenomenon, likely of nonconscious origin, though it isn’t a magical experience or a feeling.

Illustrating a similar perspective to the one I’ve advocated herein, I shared a relatively brief portion of the Owens-Wilson debate. Wilson appears to value an approach to life which is in accordance with both logic and reason. Even Owens eventually relented to this view.

In particular, she stated, “Intuition is the first step.” However, she then misinterpreted intuition by adding, “Something feels off.” Perhaps something seems off, is believed to be off, or is thought of as being off, yet there’s no such thing as something feeling off in regard to intuition.

Fortunately, I use UA to accept the misinterpretations of others. Now, I offer this blogpost to you. Perhaps you’ve found my argument about intuition somewhat unconvincing. I can live with that. In any event, my intuition tells me that you’ve probably learned something anyway.

If you’re looking for a provider who tries to work to help understand how thinking impacts physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral elements of your life—helping you to sharpen your critical thinking skills, I invite you to reach out today by using the contact widget on my website.

As a psychotherapist, I’m pleased to try to help people with an assortment of issues ranging from anger (hostility, rage, and aggression) to relational issues, adjustment matters, trauma experience, justice involvement, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety and depression, and other mood or personality-related matters.

At Hollings Therapy, LLC, serving all of Texas, I aim to treat clients with dignity and respect while offering a multi-lensed approach to the practice of psychotherapy and life coaching. My mission includes: Prioritizing the cognitive and emotive needs of clients, an overall reduction in client suffering, and supporting sustainable growth for the clients I serve. Rather than simply trying to help you to feel better, I want to try to help you get better!

Deric Hollings, LPC, LCSW

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Hollings, D. (2023, May 3). Game recognize game. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/game-recognize-game

Hollings, D. (2023, October 12). Get better. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/get-better

Hollings, D. (2023, September 13). Global evaluations. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/global-evaluations

Hollings, D. (2024, April 13). Goals. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/goals

Hollings, D. (2024, August 9). Healthy concern. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/healthy-concern

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Hollings, D. (2024, October 21). Impermanence and uncertainty. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/impermanence-and-uncertainty

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Hollings, D. (2025, July 22). Impressions. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/impressions

Hollings, D. (2022, November 8). Information overload. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/information-overload

Hollings, D. (2024, February 14). Insufferable vs. undesirable. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/insufferable-vs-undesirable

Hollings, D. (2024, May 27). Intellectual vs. emotional insight. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/intellectual-vs-emotional-insight

Hollings, D. (2024, September 26). Interpreted reality. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/interpreted-reality

Hollings, D. (2024, October 29). Invalid rhetoric. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/invalid-rhetoric

Hollings, D. (2026, March 14). It’s just easy come and easy go: Tolerance and acceptance. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/it-s-just-easy-come-and-easy-go-tolerance-and-acceptance

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Hollings, D. (2026, March 11). Just the facts. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/just-the-facts

Hollings, D. (2026, June 8). Knock knock: A fallible human being is gonna knock up on your door. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/knock-knock-a-fallible-human-being-is-gonna-knock-up-on-your-door

Hollings, D. (2025, October 13). Knowledge, wisdom, understanding. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/knowledge-wisdom-understanding

Hollings, D. (2025, March 18). Law of excluded middle. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/law-of-excluded-middle

Hollings, D. (2024, July 10). Legal should beliefs. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/legal-should-beliefs

Hollings, D. (2023, September 19). Life coaching. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/life-coaching

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Hollings, D. (2024, June 20). Magical thinking. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/magical-thinking

Hollings, D. (2022, June 23). Meaningful purpose. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/meaningful-purpose

Hollings, D. (2024, March 4). Mental, emotional, and behavioral health. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/mental-emotional-and-behavioral-health

Hollings, D. (2025, November 16). Mental health, mental illness, and mental disorder. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/mental-health-mental-illness-and-mental-disorder

Hollings, D. (2025, March 16). Modus ponens. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/modus-ponens

Hollings, D. (2023, March 18). Monolithic misconception. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/monolithic-misconception

Hollings, D. (2024, July 10). Moral and ethical should beliefs. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/moral-and-ethical-should-beliefs

Hollings, D. (2024, September 27). My attitude. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/my-attitude

Hollings, D. (2025, August 2). My philosophy. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/my-philosophy

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Hollings, D. (2026, June 9). No trust: Dishonesty. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/no-trust-dishonesty

Hollings, D. (2026, July 13). Nonconscious distress and a centipede. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/nonconscious-distress-and-a-centipede

Hollings, D. (2026, July 9). Nonconscious: Just because you can’t detect the belief doesn’t mean that it isn’t present. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/nonconscious-just-because-you-can-t-detect-the-belief-doesn-t-mean-that-it-isn-t-present

Hollings, D. (2026, April 2). Objective rationality: What is rational to you may not be rational to others. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/objective-rationality-what-is-rational-to-you-may-not-be-rational-to-others

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Hollings, D. (2025, September 26). Observing eye and perceiving eye. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/observing-eye-and-perceiving-eye

Hollings, D. (2023, September 3). On feelings. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/on-feelings

Hollings, D. (2023, April 24). On truth. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/on-truth

Hollings, D. (2025, January 7). Other-downing. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/other-downing

Hollings, D. (2026, April 19). Outcome: Victim mentality and playing the victim. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/outcome-victim-mentality-and-playing-the-victim

Hollings, D. (2026, April 20). Overconfidence: To thine own self be true. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/overconfidence-to-thine-own-self-be-true

Hollings, D. (2025, April 9). Perception, action, and will. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/perception-action-and-will

Hollings, D. (2023, January 5). Pessimistic perspective. Hollings Therapy, LLC. Retrieved from https://www.hollingstherapy.com/post/pessimistic-perspective

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