Frank Brown
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Frank Brown
“It teaches you acceptance, it teaches you tolerance, it teaches you compassion, it teaches you resiliency, and at the end of the day you say, ‘I’ll take it.’ Take it and you learn from it."
Tell 'Em, Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox on his disability
people who experience trauma think they can get back to who they were. And she disagrees. She says it’s more about making peace with the person you have now become.
Talking with Amanda Knox, Microdosing, Drinking Coffee, Reading Negative Reviews (not all at once)
This reminds me a bit of a well-documented psychological pattern. When a child is neglected or abused by a caregiver, they face a brutal choice:
- They can believe their caregiver is unreliable or unsafe. Therefore, the caregiver is the problem.
- They can believe the caregiver’s behavior is a rational reaction to the child. Therefore, the child is the
Why Are Self-Help Gurus So Interested in Quantum Physics?
Self-seeking, self-centered and dis-honest behaviors were my deeper problems. I have replaced those with striving for honest, pure, unselfish and loving behaviors that are now pillars of what I want to display to the world.
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Fear is the answer. I think, at the bottom, I was afraid to get sober. I was afraid that I couldn’t do it, I was afraid that I couldn’t cope with life’s challenges, afraid that I wouldn’t have a safe refuge to hide from the world, that I wouldn’t be able to stay sober and afraid that I really just couldn’t manage to live without drinking.
What Six Years of Sobriety Gets You
Ultimately, trying to control the narrative about my own coolness is like trying to throw a football: I cannot do it.
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preoccupied attachment — always scanning for proof we’re loved, always bracing for abandonment. We’re so used to checking the “supply line” to feel okay — whether that’s alcohol, a person, or constant external validation — that we forget we can carry the reassurance inside us.
Peek-a-Boo: Wait... I Don't See You
But fear is the fire alarm, not the fire. Fear is a response to a perceived threat, not the danger itself. Fear isn’t even always commensurate to the size of the danger. A fire alarm can blare as loud and long for burnt toast as it does for a roaring blaze.
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Richard Rohr, OFM.
“The false self is all the things we pretend to be and think we are. It is the pride, arrogance, title, costume, role, and degree we take to be ourselves. It is what’s passing and what’s going to die, and it is not who we are ,”
“The false self is all the things we pretend to be and think we are. It is the pride, arrogance, title, costume, role, and degree we take to be ourselves. It is what’s passing and what’s going to die, and it is not who we are ,”