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Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

by Becky Kennedy

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Nov 05, 2026 06:48AM

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Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence--A Complete Guide to the Groundbreaking Wheel of Awareness Meditation Practice

by Daniel J. Siegel (Goodreads Author)

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Jul 24, 2026 07:09PM

“It is a strange fact that sometimes the people who love you most will be among the first to stop worrying about you. An inflexible optimism stands as a barrier between you. You will be fine. Anything to the contrary seems too difficult to communicate. Pain is simultaneously intimate and distant, intense”
― Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human:

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“We find it especially difficult to talk about anything chronic—meaning any kind of pain, emotional or physical, that abides and lives with us constantly. The sustaining myth of the American Dream rests on a hearty can-do spirit surmounting all obstacles, but not all problems can be overcome. So often we are defined by the troubles we live with, rather than the things we conquer. Any persistent suffering requires being afraid, but who can stay awake to fear for so long?”
― Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human:

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