recovery
When you don’t trust yourself, you’re waiting to catch yourself in a mistake so you can pounce on your own certainty about how unworthy of trust you are. You get petty. You become fixated on your mistakes, and you keep a tally of those mistakes. In contrast, when you notice you’ve been numbing out all week beyond a level you’re comfortable with and
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—Wendell Berry
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“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.” -Melody Beattie
First you desperately seek an object to bring you happiness, then, after many face plants, you realize no object can do that, so you stop running and finally face what is, where healing and recovery begin, but then, confronted by your naked wounds without your familiar escape hatch, that too becomes a chase, a far... See more
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Bruce Kasanoff • Henrik Karlsson on Substack
anything true, beautiful, eternal requires a leap of faith and pure belief
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Games of Chance – ZORA ZINE
Trusting yourself looks like finding the courage to override the constant temptations to minimize the small but meaningful steps you’re taking to honor your intuition. Trusting yourself looks like depersonalizing setbacks. Trusting yourself looks like realizing that just because the thing you felt so certain about changed, that doesn’t mean you
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking of yourself less.