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New habits on it’s way. Read about reparenting as an adult in the metro on my way to work.

“A cornerstone of any sensible life philosophy is as follows: there are things you can control and there are things you can’t control, it’s idiotic to trouble yourself about things you can’t control. 99.9% of all world events are outside your control”. Note to self: focus on what I, myself can change….

I can relate to this book so much. When it comes to anxiety/depression, news can trigger the way you feel. Besides that it doesn’t help you learn more. It’s most of the time, entertaining, not educational. Research papers/journals/books is the way to go basically. Peaceful reading session in a café. Feeling content.

boundaries.
“she found her identity in pleasing others, and since she had no boundaries in place to protect her, she became so in service to others, that she lost all connection with her authentic self”.

“The bias is evolutionarily hardwired. In the early days of our species, we were much more likely to survive if we focused on the things that could kill us rather than the things that made us happy. Just like the autonomic nervous system’s fight-or-flight response, the bias is built into our operating system at the physiological level and is largely out of our conscious control”

I read about: mind-body healing practices; top down, bottom up, healing the gut (very interesting, I’ve been doing more research about this lately, mind blowing), healing sleep (besides this book I’m reading a book about why sleep is important, which is something I’ve been thinking about more as well). The holistic approach is a yes for me!

Stress. I need to decrease my stress

Also, nice journal excersises

So far lots of useful information. So far it's been a lot about childhood conditioning/trauma. I see that it includes lots of (written) exercises. Next journal session will be interesting.

Well it's working, I'm super sleepy after reading just a few pages

I can relate so much to the words in this book. It's exactly what I needed. From anxiety, depression, addiction, to finding your purpose, genuine self-love, finding about some patterns I was unaware of and dealing with disappointing yourself versus disappointing others. It makes you want to continue your spiritual growth.