This might be an autism/delayed emotional processing specific rec, but I was often told I overthink things and for a long time I thought I didn’t have feelings like everyone else, just lots of thoughts. I would spend so much time and energy trying to figure out what was a thought and what was a feeling until my therapist just said ”what if I say that it doesn’t matter and the difference is unimportant or non-existent for you?” I can’t tell you how much that changed my life! Thoughts like “this is something that is upsetting” would cause me such confusion because I didn’t feel the upset so I felt I didn’t deserve to address it. But realising that for me recognising that something is upsetting on an intellectual level is how I first realise it’s upsetting me, and it might be days or months or years until I realise how it was emotionally affecting me. So acting, in the moment, as if I can feel the upset (confronting people about things, changing the situation, wallowing, giving myself time etc) is both allowed and means I can process things so i dont only feel them later or realise how they were negatively impacting me. the modern day splitting of thought and feeling into separate worlds is sometimes useless or damaging!