Identity
where belonging is in our heart and not a reward for “perfecting, pleasing, proving, and pretending
Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness
I know now that being afraid of things going wrong is not the way to make them go right
Thought Catalog • From Failure to Fresh Start
This points to the truth that the world view we operate from affects everything from how we feel to how well we process information to how we behave.
The mode we tend to live from, hostile or friendly, survive or thrive, is a reflection of which brain circuits have been most consistently recruited over a person's live, starting in childhood. Childr
... See moreEither way, awakening is necessary. Why? Because a lot of the programming you got as a child was inaccurate. They lied to you. They gave you wrong data. It really wasn’t your job
Patti Henry • The Emotionally Unavailable Man
Does life feel like a long series of obligations that cannot be met?
Neil Fiore • The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play
This realisation is alarming at first, but it's ultimately deeply reassuring. As the UK organisation Action for Happiness likes to point out, one of the biggest causes of misery is the way we chronically "compare our insides with other people's outsides". We're all mini-New York Timeses or White Houses, energetically projecting an image of calm pro... See more
Oliver Burkeman • Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time
Every little part of my life meant something, I just didn’t know it at the time