Jennifer Baez
@jenniferbaez
Jennifer Baez
@jenniferbaez
Psychology research is clear that the most reliable way to overcome psychological pain and discomfort is not to avoid it; it’s to gradually dimish the effects of discomfort by systematic exposure. “Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it,” write Haidt and Lukianoff.
In other words, the more you face cognitive friction, the
... See more“The first step toward healing in mind and body is knowing what you’re dealing with — identifying the unresolved trauma.”
Because of feedback delays within complex systems, by the time a problem becomes apparent may be unnecessarily difficult to solve.
“Healing is a daily event. You can’t “go somewhere” to be healed; you must go inward to be healed. This means a daily commitment to doing the work.”
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A system is a set of things-people, cells, molecules, or whatever-interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time
