Sublime

Stressful environments and challenging interpersonal situations add the necessary texture to bring out deeply buried resistance patterns that can be quite hard to see in a life dedicated solely to quiet contemplation.

We develop a personality made up of our primary selves that is, in effect, a defense against vulnerability.

anxious (or impulsive) extroverts, calm introverts, and anxious introverts.

When you diminish your feelings, you diminish your aliveness. Expanding your capacity for intimacy, love, and connection is one of life’s most precious gifts and stimulates neurogenesis, for the brain is wired for emotional relationships. With negative relationships and chronic feelings of stress and depression this capacity shrinks—and so does neu