Boris Pasternak, live not by lies https://t.co/Kn53pt6E4w
As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself. Hiding your core feelings takes an enormous amount of energy, it saps your motivation to pursue worthwhile goals, and it leaves you feeling bored and shut down.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Our feelings may scream one thing while our minds demand something else, But our bodies, which are the storage units for our feelings, simply cannot lie. Whatever we feel in our bodies is our truth.
Living Your Yoga, Lasater
Uncovering what lies underneath your past can seem threatening, but false tranquillity upheld by a facade of ‘okay-ness’ is fragile and short-lived. In the end, self-deception is toxic; unmourned pains and unspoken words can only lie dormant for so long.
Imi Lo • Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity: How to manage intense emotions as a highly sensitive person - learn more about yourself with this life-changing self help book (Teach Yourself)
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways.”
- excerpt from The Silent Patient
As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you
are fundamentally at war with yourself..
The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you
know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.
— Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score