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The Unsnag blog makes what’s messy make sense. Articles to help you go from stuck to steady—with a little science, a little humor, and a lot of humanity.

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Unsnag’s Origin Story

Unsnag started in a messy, ordinary moment — a chipped tooth, spiraling guilt, and the realization that I couldn’t outthink my way through it. Here’s the story of how one night by the pool cracked something open and gave me the practice I still use today.

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You can’t think your way through a feeling.

Most of us don’t actually feel our feelings—we think about them. It’s like staring at the ocean instead of getting in the water: safe, dry, and stuck. Here’s why that happens, how it makes sense, and the simple way back to feeling what’s real.

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Different isn’t wrong. It’s the point.

Somewhere along the way, “different” started to feel wrong. But your quirks, speed, slowness, boldness, sensitivity—they’re not mistakes. They’re the point. Here’s why the world needs you exactly as you are.

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The habits you want to change once helped you survive.

If you never learned how to feel your emotions safely, you likely found brilliant workarounds—habits that kept you close to love and far from harm—but those old strategies are still running the show. Here’s how to finally feel what’s here now, so life stops feeling like the same hard loop.

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The point of being alive is to feel alive.

Most of us are living head-first—thinking our way through life instead of actually feeling it. We trade goosebumps for checklists, potential for “someday.” Here’s why the whole point of being alive is to experience it—and how to start now.

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