Going to yourself

Confronting trauma, pain, fears and desires and being more open with others about such things.

The more I pay attention to my body, the more I realize how much of this world requires me to disconnect from it just to participate.

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Students come to my office with problems I can’t begin to unpack. No, I can’t tell you why you have dreams about murdering people. No, I can’t explain why your dad told you it’s your mom’s fault you slice your arms up like deli meat. No, I don’t know why the doctor screwed up your prescription and you are out of your meds or why your sister won’t

Emily Kingsley • You Are Not Okay and Tomorrow Will Come

I need to tattoo this on myself

Comparing Yourself to Others, Solved · SOLVED with Mark Manson

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Debunking the myth that enlightenment means never comparing yourself to others; true wisdom involves acknowledging transitory human emotions

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So the first myth is that there's some level of wisdom or enlightenment or success that you stop comparing yourself to others. There is no evidence of that. In fact, I find it very amusing how much like pop spirituality and pop self-help, when you actually look at what they idealize, it's basically just being a psychopath. Yeah. They're peddling

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never thought to describe the fact that pop spirituality was indeed asking people to act like psychopaths

I feel like an anti-entrepreneur, in that it feels completely against my nature to come up with ideas that make money. It’s like I can conceive of every kind of idea except that kind.

Can you be a designer or marketer in today’s economy and offer services that are unattached to money, that don’t promise a major financial benefit?

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I have a full life. A privileged life. An unendangered life. But sometimes the simple joys escape me. Joy is not always a feeling that is freely bestowed upon us, often it is something we must actively seek. In a way, joy is a decision, an action, even a practised method of being. It is an earned thing brought into focus by what we have lost — at

Maria Popova • Audubon on other minds and the secret knowledge of animals, the paradox of joy with Nick Cave and Lisel Mueller, how Dostoyevsky became a writer

I struggle to let joy overwhelm me, rather than fear and self doubts and despair

More and more often, I find myself thinking about how my life would be generally more positive without the internet’s presence. This hopefulness is always immediately followed by anxiety that I won’t have access to the internet’s wealth of self-optimization knowledge. How could I give up this shrieking mass of ways to improve myself? The