Amelia Reinhard
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Amelia Reinhard
C. S. Lewis would just drop wisdom like this in letters to his friends https://t.co/yRpN5bKTpE
You change your life when you start doing the truly scary thing, which is showing up exactly as you are.
Brianna Wiest • The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
We think our sadness is personal, pervasive, and permanent. Personal, in that we have caused all the problems we face. Pervasive, in that our entire life is defined by our failings. And permanent, in that the sadness will last forever.
Stephanie Foo • What My Bones Know
Overchoice and How to Avoid it
gurwinder.blog
So as it turns out your sense of self doesnt exist in a vacuum. You gotta actually use it and bounce it off of other people like echolocation to see where you are as a person and shit. So if you dont regularly interact with other people the echoes just get weaker and weaker and before you know it your personality is a blurry fucked up fog clone of... See more
Reblog by @syn4k
To avoid the bad feelings, the child slowly learns to identify only with what he thinks of as “good” and to deny anything “bad” as part of who he is. He actually starts limiting his identity to only include what he has come to believe is “acceptable” in the eyes of his parents. Yet another child may despair altogether of getting any good strokes
... See moreEva Pierrakos • The Undefended Self: Living the Pathwork
The question isn’t what finished product do I want to have made
it’s what project would make me feel alive just to work on it, regardless of the finished product
Rudra Dakinix.comAlmost anything that we are able to direct sustained attention at will begin to loop on itself and bloom.
To take a dark example, if you focus on your anxiety, the anxiety can begin to loop until you hyperventilate and get tunnel vision and become filled with nightmarish thoughts and feelings—a panic attack.
And you do the same thing with joy. If you... See more
To take a dark example, if you focus on your anxiety, the anxiety can begin to loop until you hyperventilate and get tunnel vision and become filled with nightmarish thoughts and feelings—a panic attack.
And you do the same thing with joy. If you... See more