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"Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others."
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"As a woman, I see myself as a garden, and I see myself as the gardener of myself, I see myself forming and pruning and watering and nourishing all the flowers and trees and vines and leaves in me. There is a world within yourself, that has so much to offer! If only you would walk into it each day! We were not meant to save the world; we were meant to save ourselves! And in saving ourselves, we have saved worlds innumerable."
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"Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have...undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out and left? No? It's because he doesn't care! He's in a room with a naked girl, he just won the lottery. I am so tired of saying no, waking up in the morning and recalling every single thing I ate the day before, counting every calorie I consumed so I know just how much self loathing to take into the shower. I'm going for it. I have no interest in being obese, I'm just through with the guilt. So this is what I'm going to do, I'm going to finish this pizza, and then we are going to go watch the soccer game, and tomorrow we are going to go on a little date and buy ourselves some bigger jeans."
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Personal Development
"Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion."
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Personal Development
"Don't wait for people to dress your bed for you, do it yourself and you'll be glad to sleep and feel relaxed."
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"You must firmly, absolutely and ruthlessly protect your safety and sanity."
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"Your habits and hygiene demonstrate how you feel about yourself. Without saying a word, they speak for you."
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"Never spend more time worrying about somebody or some situation (that plays no significant role in your life) more than you do about yourself."
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Personal Development
"If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them."
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Personal Development
"Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others."
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Personal Development
"If you want to look after your shadow, you just have to look after yourself, that will do!"
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"I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults."
Childhood
"I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude."
Happiness
"When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to giving help, you attach value to needing help. The danger of tying your self-worth to being a helper is feeling shame when you have to ask for help. Offering help is courageous and compassionate, but so is asking for help."
Psychology
"Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen."
Self
"If you own this story you get to write the ending."
Life
"No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them."
Psychology
"Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we're angry and scared and at each other's throats."
Psychology
"Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart."
Virtue
"There is no question that engagement requires sacrifice, but that's what we signed up for when we decided to become parents."
Family
"There is a quiet transformation happening that is moving us from 'turning on each other' to 'turning toward each other.' Without question, that transformation will require shame resilience. If we're willing to dare greatly and risk vulnerability with each other, worthiness has the power to set us free."
Growth
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