Health - Mental
Maintenance and healing
Health - Mental
Most things you take personally…
Were never about you:
What feels like an attack is often someone else’s
stress, fear, or unmet expectations
spilling over.
And yet—you carry it as if it’s yours.
The moment... See more
An important gesture of courtesy and good boundaries in relationships is not to tell partners or friends what they should feel or think.
Lindsay C. Gibson • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
You can apply this truth to any relationship you have. You can apply it to strangers. And, to yourself.
It’s not personal.
Your task is to remain steady and to never doubt your intrinsic value.
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When someone else gets upset…if your whole body tenses, and not because you did something wrong…
Then it’s often because your nervous system was wired to make it better - fast.
To keep the peace.
To keep the connection.
You learned to track their... See more
instagram.comRadical Acceptance means bringing a clear, kind attention to our capacities and limitations without giving our fear-based stories the power to shut down our lives.
Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance
It is an act of radical love.
Sonya Renee Taylor • The Body Is Not an Apology
Loneliness isn’t the physical absence of other people, he said—it’s the sense that you’re not sharing anything that matters with anyone else.
Johann Hari • Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
Remember, your goodness as a person isn’t based on how much you give in relationships, and it isn’t selfish to set limits on people who keep on taking. Your job is to take care of yourself, regardless of what others think you should be doing for them.