As far as my own stuff goes, I was Marie Kondo before Marie Kondo was cool.
“therapy without “connectedness” is not very effective.”
― What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
― What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
“Communicating our expectations is brave and vulnerable. And it builds meaningful connection and often leads to having a partner or friend who we can reality-check with.”
― Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
― Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
“فلا تسألني قبل الوقت، وتيقن أنك لا تصل إلا بالسَّير.”
― سبيل الغارق: الطريق والبحر
― سبيل الغارق: الطريق والبحر
“the more threatened or stressed we are, the less access we have to the smart part of our brain, the cortex”
― What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
― What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
“We elicit from the world what we project into the world; but what you project is based upon what happened to you as a child.”
― What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
― What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
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