Jacob

“Perfectionism is not a way to avoid shame. Perfectionism is a form of shame.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“You could say that the advice here is to connect everything you require of your children in behavior and belief to the story of redemption.”
― Paul David Tripp, Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family

“But many people come to therapy seeking closure. Help me not to feel. What they eventually discover is that you can’t mute one emotion without muting the others. You want to mute the pain? You’ll also mute the joy.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“if remembering is to be something more than nostalgia, it requires a contextual basis—a theory, a vision, a metaphor—something within which facts can be organized and patterns discerned.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business