“We often underestimate the impact we have on others.”
Source: Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You
“For my own part, I know that I have been mean, selfish, unkind and judgmental towards others at times. Does this make me a bad person? I used to think so. However, I think it is a side effect of forgetting who we really are.”
Source: Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You
“Our feelings serve as indicators of our state of mind, and our state of mind in turn impacts our performance.”
Source: Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You
“My feelings of anger always seemed to be telling me what an idiot someone else was – how wrong they were and how right I was. However, as I explored my feelings, specifically anger, I realised that I’d never known anyone who’d gotten smarter as they’d gotten angrier.”
Source: Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You
“Next time you are feeling road rage or any other kind of anger, consider that the anger isn’t telling you about the outer situation, but is instead just reflecting your own thinking in that moment, and that it is pointing out to you a lack of clarity.”
Source: Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You
“The pathway to marriage is dating”
Source: Dating and Friendship: A New Model For A Lasting Love Relationship
“I invite you to think of anyone against whom you hold any judgements or resentments. Ask yourself if these people really did hurt you or whether your hurt feelings are reflections of your own thinking about their actions. If so, what if you did not need to struggle to forgive them?”
Source: Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You
“Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom lens effect,” in which the focus is entirely on oneself, to the exclusion of external considerations.”
Source: Snooze: A Story of Awakening
“If you have not resolved your grief, it will affect your future relationships including the one you have with yourself. Including the one you have with me. It will keep us all in a holding pattern, putting a straightjacket on your love and chaining you to the past instead of moving you forward into the future.”
Source: Only Gone From Your Sight: Jack McAfghan's Little Therapy Guide to Pet Loss and Grief
“I wanted to retain the right to disappear. Remaining in place, nesting -- it sets off fears that somebody would yank me away. To counter it, I had to flee. I had to reassure myself that I still knew how to escape.”
Source: The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After