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“This is the trouble with origin hunting. There are so many origins.”
― Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
― Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
“But a child is a sensitive instrument. You can hide the factual truth from a child, but you can't blanket influence. Your agitation will out, and over time it will mod your child's temperament as surely as water wear at rock.”
― Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
― Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
“Equally as therapeutic was the fact that disaster did not come.”
― Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
― Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
“If you're afraid of heights, lean over a railing. If you're afraid of germs, lick a floor. But what do you do if your greatest fear is of being afraid?”
― Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
― Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
“The hard work, you discover over the years, is in learning to discern between correct and incorrect anxiety, between the anxiety that’s trying to warn you about a real danger and the anxiety that’s nothing more than a lying, sadistic, unrepentant bully in your head. The hard work is in learning to step back and analyze the data dispassionately.”
― Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
― Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
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When anyone on the TODAY team is looking for a book recommendation, there is only one person to turn to: Jenna Bush Hager. Jenna will select a book a ...more
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Reading the best of the best in Young Adult literature published in the previous year. Our goal is to find the book the American Library Association's ...more
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