Michael

“Anxiety is sometimes the result of ignoring yourself.”
― Britt Frank, The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward

“Chronic illness changes the way you see yourself—it outlasts jobs, homes, relationships. Even the flimsiest reification has power.”
― Anna Mehler Paperny, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person

“If we could begin to see much illness itself not as a cruel twist of fate or some nefarious mystery but rather as an expected and therefore normal consequence of abnormal, unnatural circumstances, it would have revolutionary implications for how we approach everything health related.”
― Gabor Maté, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

“When you learn how to re-parent yourself, you will stop attempting to complete the past by setting up others to be your parents.” When you constantly seek validation from other people or when you push to the point of exhaustion, you’re “setting up others to be your parents.”
― Britt Frank, The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward