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Mai

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As far as my own stuff goes, I was Marie Kondo before Marie Kondo was cool.

“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.”
― Bruce D. Perry, What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

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“that a story was nothing more than a lie you got away with.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

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“the more threatened or stressed we are, the less access we have to the smart part of our brain, the cortex”
― Bruce D. Perry, What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

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“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.”
― Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

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