Mindfulness & Wisdom
Childhood wounding does not always take a physical form. Our society typically recognizes the horror of physical child neglect, but not the emotional pain that comes from inadequate or deficient parenting. Psychological damage can happen in all sorts of subtle and invisible ways, from a caregiver’s lack of awareness, subtle put-downs, neglect, and
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HOW TO (actually) CHANGE YOUR LIFE THIS YEAR
People want to change their lives. They want to change their relationships, their bodies, their income, their brokerage accounts, their statuses, their homes. It’s so easy to identify what’s wrong on the outside and blame it for the feelings on the inside. Never is this so painfully clear as when the cale
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Don’t overthink it.
From Letters to the Intense Minds by Imi Lo
This today. As life is pushing me towards a change… something I might have asked for but also maybe only half consciously.
Or I want it to be exactly the way I want it. I wanted EVERYTHING. To give up nothing but to have everything I wanted.
How can I be so utterly enraptured, so intoxicatingly optimistic ab
The existentially gifted are idealists as they consider the limitless possibilities of how things could be. They are on a constant quest to connect with something larger than themselves and seek answers about the obligations, opportunities and mysteries of human life. It pains them to see how the world is falling short.
Imi Lo • Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity: How to manage intense emotions as a highly sensitive person - learn more about yourself with this life-changing self help book (Teach Yourself)
Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.
~ Cordelia • Tweet
Though history cannot be changed, you can rewrite the story that you tell yourself. You are in no way ‘bad’ or ‘too much’. You are a sensitive, intuitive, gifted individual who might have been deprived of the right kind of nourishment during childhood. Your high level of awareness and acuity to subtleties is both rare and incredibly precious. If yo
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The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
Whenever I see people defend the 40-hour workweek, I think back to this quote by David Cain:
'But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (..) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gra
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