Frank Brown
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Frank Brown
I don’t how shame came to be part of the equation of who I am—but it ran pretty deep. I think that sense of inner shame is pretty common among us alcoholics and addicts; it’s true that drinking and using let us escape other people and external obligations—but it was mostly me that I was running from.
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Regarding anxiety as “just part of the script” helps us see it not as a screaming alarm system we have to heed, but as a phenomenon that simply plays out in the theater of our mind. All these thoughts—”I don’t want to go,” “I should stay home because I value self-care”--are just passing through.
“Ooh, here’s the part where I think I should stay home... See more
“Ooh, here’s the part where I think I should stay home... See more
Why We Dread (and Ditch) Our Own Social Plans, Plus 3 Tools to Try
To be a gardener is to give a fuck. To be a gardener is to be invested in a place—to know it, to protect it, to be present to it. How can we protect and heal ourselves and our planet if we’re not willing to step into, and value, the role of the gardener?
Georgina Reid • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care - Wonderground
is a three-step process that takes you from making a mistake to moving beyond it.
- Own your mistake. To do this, say to yourself, “I made a mistake. I’m human. I will take responsibility for it and I will work my way through this.” Then check your emotions. Name what you are feeling.
- Show yourself compassion. Think through how this mistake happened.
Just a moment...
Until I gave up my made-up construct for the life I thought I was supposed to be living, I couldn’t begin to live the life that was actually meant for me. Until I let go of everything not meant for me, what was meant for me couldn’t find me.
T.B.D. • What Is Meant for Me... - By T.B.D.
How the 19th-Century Know Nothing Party Reshaped American Politics
Lorraine Boissoneaultsmithsonianmag.comAt one point, Churchill describes his dad as being, “Like God... busy elsewhere.”
Dan Harris • Friday Fixations
You don’t need to be right. You don’t have to prove it to them. The new you knows letting go of the need to be right allows you the energy to focus on better and bigger things. Let them think what they want to think. Your peace isn’t up for debate.
A Message from Your Future Self
Then, shortly after our daughter Gwen was born, as I understand it goes, my marriage was revealed for what it was. I had a lifelong (and unmanaged) mental health issue, and my husband had an addiction (also unmanaged) to alcohol. Now that we had a baby, we could no longer ignore our unwieldy foundations.