Health - Mental
Maintenance and healing
Health - Mental
Knowing how much energy the sheer act of survival requires keeps me from being surprised at the price they often pay: the absence of a loving relationship with their own bodies, minds, and souls.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
We put such pressure on ourselves to know exactly who we are and what we want in every moment; it’s okay for some things to be fuzzy. People who identify with having “so many issues” are often just people who don’t have immediate or perfect closure on the ever-evolving experience of being human.
Katherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
neuroscience research has shown that we possess two distinct forms of self-awareness: one that keeps track of the self across time and one that registers the self in the present moment.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
How well we get along with ourselves depends largely on our internal leadership skills—how well we listen to our different parts, make sure they feel taken care of, and keep them from sabotaging one another.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.
Asa Don Brown
(from #209 Limbo, Daily - Stuff That Matters by Matt Rutherford)
addiction emerges out of a lack of inner experience of intimacy with oneself, with God, with life, and with the moment.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
When I feel paralyzed by fear, I do this:
That’s it. Just one step forward.
- Write down my specific fear
- Ask “what’s the worst that could happen?”
- Ask “could I survive that?”
- Take ONE small action today
That’s it. Just one step forward.