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“Try thinking about that yourself. The more you do, the more you’ll begin to see feedback loops everywhere.”
― Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer

“Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going inside ourselves.”
― Sarah Ockwell-Smith, How to Be a Calm Parent: Lose the guilt, control your anger and tame the stress - for more peaceful and enjoyable parenting and calmer, happier children too

“When someone tells you that population growth causes poverty, you’ll ask yourself how poverty may cause population growth.”
― Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer

“This subconscious belief can – and does – often lead to children repressing their own emotions or needs in the mistaken conviction that they are unlovable and unlikeable if they are struggling. This learned, erroneous behaviour from the past can become a huge trigger for us as adults, when our own children misbehave, because somewhere deep inside us is a lost child crying for attention, but one who has learned to repress their needs. When our own children act in a similar needy or dysregulated way, it triggers us not only because of their needs, but because of our own past needs, too.”
― Sarah Ockwell-Smith, How to Be a Calm Parent: Lose the guilt, control your anger and tame the stress - for more peaceful and enjoyable parenting and calmer, happier children too