My Mind Transformed Completely, and There Were Some Tradeoffs
But I’m of the belief that sadness, grief, and depression are important developmental thresholds that all adults must contend with at some point in life. These events can bring about a positive disintegration (wherein your sense of self becomes dis-integrated and then re-integrated with metastability at a higher order of complexity)—or we can squan... See more
foxwizard ☾ • 🌚 How to Dispel the “Dark Cloud”
As his capacity to feel anxious and engage in (rather than avoid) disagreements increased, the possibility of conflict became much less scary and he was able to identify negotiate and set more boundaries.
Cristien Storm • Living in Liberation: Boundary Setting, Self Care and Social Change
it sounds to me like you have a possibly cynical, possibly just very mature acceptance of the inevitability of that, that way of thinking. Whereas my experience has been, I think in certain ways I’m just emotionally kinda delicate, and it’s just devastating to me to think that way. And I’m willing to do enormous work—and enormous emotional and psyc
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