Never attribute to malice what can be more accurately explained by exhaustion
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You will develop insecurities about anything you truly think is worth doing.
Apathy, absorption & confidence: pick two
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Never attribute to malice what can more accurately be explained by information overload
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Force + loving kindness is a scaffold, like the windbreak sheltering a young tree.
Force without loving kindness is violation, like snapping the tree’s branches to mould it to your desired shape.
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To trust you is really to trust myself in your presence; to trust my strength, integrity, understanding of you etc.
If you break my trust you cannot exactly win it back by changing your behaviour; it is I who must trust my own judgment of your changed behaviour.
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Living well in relation to your boundaries is an artform
Too far inside and your life is timid; stale; you hardly know the possible range of who you are
Too close to and over and your life is a roller coaster other people have to constantly bail you out from
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Boundaries and values are the same thing; boundaries are the enforceable expression of your values
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Katniss Everdeen is an overfunctioner.
(a la Dance of Intimacy)
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Healing is not about fixing something fundamentally broken, it’s about untangling something fundamentally already whole.
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ASMR is a physiological response to being mothered
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