Fleet MaullThe Entrepreneur’s Zen Master

What if the anxiety you keep pushing away comes back louder because it’s never been heard?

1 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video (uploaded by Fleet Maull) featuring Richard Schwartz explaining how anxiety can be 'exiled' within a person—locked away as a part that holds traumatic scenes or inherited 'legacy burdens.' Schwartz argues that when anxiety is suppressed (exiled) it becomes desperate for help and will re-emerge more forcefully during any opening, trying to take over to avoid being locked away again.

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You run into situations where it's really difficult for them to unblend. Yeah. And that's generally because the anxious part, which in my system often is what we call an exile. And most people try to do that so they can function. So if it were just anxiety, it wouldn't be a problem. But it turns out you're locking up a part of you that's stuck in a scary scene and has anxiety because of that. Or it might carry what we call a legacy burden of anxiety that came into you from your parents or something like that. But point is, when you exile the anxiety, then it's desperate to get help. So anytime there's an opening, it'll burst out of hiding or out of where it's locked up and try to totally take over, because it believes if it doesn't totally take over, you're going to lock it up again.