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When we forget to make sure we are doing okay, we canβt then give our best to the people we care about.
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All we have to remember is that how someone else processes your truth is not your responsibility. Their reaction says much more about them than it does about you and your truth.
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Save the big chats and honest words for people who you know have you in their hearts full-time.
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Love... you thrilling, spine tingling, intoxicating, life-changing, awakening feeling. I'm ready for you, always!
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while I concentrated on not falling over or farting.
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I would call mine βthe black pitβ. This is what it feels like: being in a dark hole unable to pull yourself out of it.
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Finding other methods to deal with what I feared in life, and how I perceivedmy own story, was now my new mission. First, I looked around at my life and worked out what needed to go. I had built up beliefs about myself, about others around me and about how the world worked that werenβt conducive to a healthy mental state long-term. This needed to change.
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Russell Brandβs brilliant podcast, Under The Skin.
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The Body Keeps the Score
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The Salt Path,
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Rather than just sitting happy in the NOW and knowing Iβm okay, I can lean more towards worrying about mistakes Iβve made in the past and things I could have done differently.
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I donβt think we are designed to know and cope with what is happening all over the world all the time.
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But if we are to find real and lasting happiness in our lives we need to abandon our obsession with hunting the highs and resisting the lows and discover the hidden secrets of the βcalmβ.
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