Health - Mental

Maintenance and healing

The weird thing is that the people who suffer the most from self-doubt also tend to be the most driven. INFJs definitely fall into this category.

Lauren Sapala • The INFJ Writer

More importantly, it’s about listening to your own self like you really, really matter. It’s taking time to actually connect with yourself, ask yourself the deep and meaningful questions about who you are, what makes you tick, and what you absolutely don’t want to do.

The Radical Guide to Being Your Own Primary Partner | Radical Relating

Am I avoiding information that I know may change my behavior?

The brain-disease model overlooks four fundamental truths: (1) our capacity to destroy one another is matched by our capacity to heal one another. Restoring relationships and community is central to restoring well-being; (2) language gives us the power to change ourselves and others by communicating our experiences, helping us to define what we

Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

my therapist was telling me today that there's no disappointment when you accept things or people for what they are. but you don't always have to cut people off when they don't meet your expectations sometimes you just have to adjust the relationship + accept their capacity.

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Found on Cosmos

Keeping the exiles locked up, however, stamps out not only memories and emotions but also the parts that hold them—the parts that were hurt the most by the trauma. In Schwartz’s words: “Usually those are your most sensitive, creative, intimacy-loving, lively, playful and innocent parts. By exiling them when they get hurt, they suffer a double