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this is shaping up to be one of the best books i've read that's highly relevant to everything everyone around me is discussing all the time, yet nobody seems to reference. this is like a precursor to body keeps the score, IFS, focusing, etc. 135 pages

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SF (Aug 2-14)

@visakanv

· Jan 27

1953 predecessor of Introspect, by Rollo May

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if you're impatient to read introspect (I am too, lol) I highly recommend reading this in the meantime. "self-contempt as a substitute for self-worth", "sense of humor connected with one's sense of selfhood", feel like we independently converge on all the same talking points

the idea of puritanism and libertinism both committing mirrored errors of separating sex from the self, this feels like it could've been written last week

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SF (Aug 2-14)

@visakanv

· Sep 17, 2019

2 simplistic stories: a) sex is corrosive: if you have sex before installing the catalytic converter of marriage it will erode your soul and fill you with shame b) sex is inert: it’s just pleasure. do all the sex you can, you’ll never regret it. if you hesitate, you’re team A

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we need to recover awareness of our bodies upstream of people not knowing what they want is people not knowing how they feel

"the battle for health must be won on the deeper level of the integration of the self" so true bestie

children know what they want before we get in their heads and teach them to falsify their desires

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SF (Aug 2-14)

@visakanv

· Jan 23

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children have taste, they know what they want. this is where all the riffs of “genius is just allowing your childself to survive intact into adulthood” come from. the problem is that people get inside their own heads, internalize social bullshit from others

god it's so satisfying that my personal DIY thinking converges so perfectly with like a professional therapist from 70 years ago who saw actual patients etc. this greatly alleviates my constant anxiety of "what if i don't know wtf im talking abt and i'm wasting everyone's time"

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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you’ve seen actual patients in a sense too, i know you’ve talked to tons of people. all of that experience counts, it’s just as real as what professional therapists are doing. they’re just some people talking to people, same as us 💪

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yea that's true still u know it's like-

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