Facts Quote by Melchor Lim

“Before conducting this research I thought that numbing and taking the edge off was just about addiction, but I don’t believe that anymore. Now…

— Brené Brown

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

— Brené Brown

When you numb your pain you also numb your joy.

— Brené Brown

“I knew this was a critically important finding in my research, so I spent several hundred interviews trying to better understand the consequences of…

— Brené Brown

“We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore; it's what you call — numb — and it tragically blots out our pleasure too.”

— Bryant McGill

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things,…

— Douglas Coupland

When you've been hurt, so much, that you don't feel anything anymore...You're just numb...

— Denicia Provencio

No matter what feeling comes up - numbness, irritability, shame - if I let it arise and play itself through, I naturally open into…

— Tara Brach

There have been moments in my life when I've become numb to certain aspects of myself that I found frightening. Or I've conformed to…

— Jessie Buckley

“Vulnerability scares most of us because we've been taught that FEELING our feelings is a sign of "over-sensitivity and weakness". We've taught ourselves to…

— Marlene Milner

Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb.

— Darren Hayes

Now I know I'll never be numb again. A mother is condemned to feel everything forever. And I'm finally afraid, condemned to fear everything…

— Kristin Hersh