Gracie Rotman
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Gracie Rotman
What-is-Identity-as-we-now-use-the-word-.pdf
web.stanford.eduRather, the statement “identity is socially constructed” trades on the implicit and unarticulated double sense of “identity” in present usage. It means at once that social categories are socially constructed and something like “peoples’ sense of themselves as distinct individuals is socially constructed.” In part, what gives such statements their force, interest, and subversive appeal is the notion that a social process beyond the individual’s control crucially shapes something that the individual may understand as deeply personal.
What is “Healing Psychology?”
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Curing an illness is the process of eliminating foreign elements that impair health, whereas healing an injury is the process of restoring wholeness to that which has been damaged or broken apart.
We often fear that letting go means losing something essential: identity, stability, connection, status.
But what we often gain instead is space.
Room to breathe. Room to grieve. Room to grow.
The truth is, you can’t receive what’s next if your hands are full of what’s no longer yours to carry.
Whether it’s a belief, a plan, or a person — some things
... See moreWhat we fail to understand, is that circumstances and people are only meant to be a part of our lives for a little while, only to teach us a lesson.
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we are only creating resistance when we refuse to let go.
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My God, my Universe, my angels had put it in my heart to follow through with this
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Each ending, no matter how difficult, creates space for something new—something that, in time, reveals itself as more aligned with our journey
The Courage to Close Chapters
Fear of life is really the fear of emotions. It is not the facts that we fear but our feelings about them.
David R. Hawkins • Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
the foundation of discernment is intuition