“A pushover is a bad thing to be, but an opinionated pushover is a worse thing to be. A pushover is nice and goes along with it, whatever it is. An opinionated pushover acts nice and goes along with it, but while quietly brooding and resentful. I am an opinionated pushover.”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“One of the more excruciating emotional disconnects for me is when someone says something they think is poignant and I receive it as complete bullshit.”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“I think only your mother can truly make you feel lower than whale shit.”
― Later
― Later
“SLIPS ARE TOTALLY NORMAL. WHEN you have a slip, it’s just that. A slip. It doesn’t define you. It doesn’t make you a failure. The most important thing is that you don’t let that slip become a slide,”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
“The problem with this is that if we beat ourselves up after a mistake, we add shame onto the guilt and frustration that we already feel about our mistake. That guilt and frustration can be helpful in moving us forward, but shame...shame keeps us stuck. It's a paralyzing emotion. When we get caught in a shame spiral, we tend to make more of the same kinds of mistakes that caused us shame in the first place".”
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
― I'm Glad My Mom Died
The Losers' Club: A Stephen King Podcast by Consequence of Sound
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