Health - Mental

Maintenance and healing

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I don’t have to care about algorithms if I have people who care about me. And I get people to care about me by first demonstrating that I care about them. Some people I’ve talked with over the years have said that this seems like “too much effort,” but I counter with “it’s effort that actually pays off over time, contrasted with... See more

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Perhaps the simplest and most inclusive definition of grief is “unfinished hurt.”

Friend, I hope you can see that what will propel you to thrive has a little to do with your skills and a lot to do with your mind.

I hope you get to know your inner world. I hope you thrive financially while living your values. I hope you focus less on what you achieve and more on who you become. I hope you learn to be kind to yourself. I hope you... See more

In the camps, survivors: • Imagined teaching others about their experience • Found beauty in small moments • Helped fellow prisoners "Everything can be taken except one freedom: To choose one's attitude in any circumstance." https://t.co/mxxSkvzXEr

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The way to move past an emotion is to first allow yourself to fully feel it.

Only then can you let it go.

Simple to understand. But hard to do.

Much of our mind, and most of our culture, is designed to distract from feeling of emotions (h/t Alice Miller)

Associating intense sensations with safety, comfort, and mastery is the foundation of self-regulation, self-soothing, and self-nurture, a theme to which I return throughout this book.

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