Lesr’s Reviews > Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead > Status Update

We don't compare when we're feeling good about ourselves; we look for what's good in others. When we practice self-compassion, we are compassionate toward others. Self-righteousness is just the armor of self-loathing.

writing about emotional upheavals for just fifteen to twenty minutes a day on four consecutive days can decrease anxiety, rumination, and depressive symptoms and boost our immune systems.

Just because someone isn't willing or able to love us, it doesn't mean that we are unlovable.

“He goes on to say that even with a half story in our minds, "we earn a dopamine 'reward' every time it helps us understand something in our world-even if that explanation is incomplete or wrong."

It’s feeling blah blah blah right now

as much as we'd love to blame distant or cruel fathers, bullying buddies, and overbearing coaches for the lion's share of shame that men feel, women can be the most fearful about letting men off the white horse and the most likely to be critical of their vulnerability.

Vulnerability is not winning or losing; It's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.

“But in those moments when disappointment is washing over us and we're desperately trying to get our heads and hearts around what is or is not going to be, the death of our expectations can be painful beyond measure.”