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“We are each one being with access to multiple dimensions guiding us toward our full human potential. The soul is vast and endless. The ego is actively on guard, yet also necessary to befriend. The body is a rich source of information along the path towards self-awareness, and the psyche works creatively towards permeability across ordinary and extraordinary states of consciousness. The spiritual realm is available, loving, and supportive, should we choose to open ourselves to receive it. Life is a continuum of all things seen and unseen, dancing and interacting as one reality, revealing itself to us as we reveal ourselves to it.”

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Book:Guided: Journey into the Unknown to Awaken the Soul and Live in Truth
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“I believe that it IS possible to live every day in the consciousness that is experienced as unconditional love.”

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Book:The Lifetimes of a Journey: My Amazing Journey of Coming Alive and the Power of Unconditional Self-Love
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“We can treat each other with compassion, with unconditional love, and a knowing that such a world enables a completely different experience for each and all of us.”

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Book:The Lifetimes of a Journey: My Amazing Journey of Coming Alive and the Power of Unconditional Self-Love
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“I believe that it is the relationship with self that sets the tone for every other relationship in our lives.”

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Book:The Lifetimes of a Journey: My Amazing Journey of Coming Alive and the Power of Unconditional Self-Love
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“Both my experiences of being well-loved on the one hand and being loved conditionally on the other influenced the development (or lack) of my self-love.”

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Book:The Lifetimes of a Journey: My Amazing Journey of Coming Alive and the Power of Unconditional Self-Love
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“I have moved through so many negative and positive feelings about myself. All of it has been conspiring to open my mind and my heart to who I am today.”

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Book:The Lifetimes of a Journey: My Amazing Journey of Coming Alive and the Power of Unconditional Self-Love
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“I hope that in sharing my experience and this wisdom, others in their own grieving process may find some hope in moving through their own experiences of loss.”

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Book:The Lifetimes of a Journey: My Amazing Journey of Coming Alive and the Power of Unconditional Self-Love
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“I had experienced unconditional love, I lost it, I started searching for it again . . . and then, I found it had been within me all along.”

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Book:The Lifetimes of a Journey: My Amazing Journey of Coming Alive and the Power of Unconditional Self-Love
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“Self-love is an act of holy disruption. To love yourself in a world that profits directly from your self-loathing is the ultimate subversion of all that seeks to keep you tame. We've been taught to hate all that we are (our softness, our fierceness, our not-enoughness, our too-muchness, our tender flesh, our hard bones, our voices, our insatiable hunger, our yearning for more, our aging, our youth, our ugly, our beauty, our all) so that we can be packaged into a commodity that sells us back to ourselves. Our self-hatred is, in many ways, one of the pillars that capitalism and the patriarchy rely on to keep us small and contained, caged and corralled, safe and quietly in place. To fall headfirst into a lifelong love affair with our purpose, our passion, our capacity, for pleasure, with the sound of our yes and the tenor of our no. With the reflection in the mirror. With the rich inner landscape of our fumbling and messy aliveness - this threatens the status quo. As Naomi Wolf said, "Our appetites DO need to be controlled if things are to stay in place." I don't know about you, but I'm at all not interested or invested in keeping things in place, in maintaining the status quo, in propping up a paradigm that's been trembling on its last legs for far too long. I don't want to have to tamp down my desire, to contain the embers of my fire, to minimize the heat of my burn. I want to love myself enough to always ask for more, and then I want to love myself harder so that I can expand wide enough to receive it when it comes. And no, I don’t think this is easy. Or simple. Or even always gentle. But you loving you? Like really, really loving you? It subverts the whole damn thing. It disrupts the narrative. It flips the script. It’s a way to reclaim all that has been taken. To demand your seat at the table. To call your wholeness home.”

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Author:Jeanette LeBlanc
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“Acknowledging seemingly contradictory aspects of the self will increase the power and influence you wield in the present, and the vitality, agility and perseverance you can bring to the life tasks that lie ahead.”

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Book:The Upside of Your Dark Side: Why Being Your Whole Self--Not Just Your "Good" Self--Drives Success and Fulfillment
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“My personal hell is a place filled with loud, cocky, inked hipster—millennials. It’s a place where every guy looks like a member of Mumford & Sons, and all the women shun makeup. No, it isn’t Lollapalooza, nor an Arcade Fire concert. No, it isn’t some hipster independent coffee shop serving the latest trend in cold brewed coffee and a donut. No, not a craft cocktail lounge playing Daft Punk on vinyl while everyone sits on low striped cushions and corduroy couches wearing color schemes of pants and tops that make no sense.”

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Book:Weird Girl Adventures from A to Z
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“For the first time in my life, I feel like I am being strong for the two of us, like I have broken free from those chains of lipstick and perfect hair and can take pride in my worn feet and the hair around my nipples. And I know that one day we will go shopping together and she will finally be proud of this body we both used to hate so much. I'm sure of it, because recently I have found it in my heart to forgive her. And because all of this is so very lonely sometimes, I have started to wear some of her old clothes, her cardigans and scarves--I was always too fat for everything else--and I think that's a sign that I have started to miss her in that place where I should have loved so long ago. And I admire nothing more than people who have found a way to love their mothers; I think it's the biggest challenge in life, the one thing that would make the world a better place.”

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Book:The Appointment
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“You don’t need to fit into any square, round or triangular holes anymore. You don’t need to fit into a pretty package or be the same as everybody else. You just need to accept and love yourself exactly as you are.”

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Book:The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
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“Body positivity is about getting rid of harmful stereotypes and banishing false perceptions of beauty. It means developing a safe space where all bodies – no matter what their shape, size, age, ethnicity or physical ability – are accepted as equal. Honouring this approach means putting an end to shaming comparisons of our own bodies with others; it means avoiding derogatory labels or putting some bodies on a pedestal. All bodies are good bodies. All bodies are positive.”

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Author:Rhyanna Watson
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“In response to her son, Sam Lamott, who said, " My Mom will start at 'A' on a question and just end at 'Z' so if we can get a time cop for like five minutes, do a timer, then we'll get out of here a lot earlier." Anne Lamott replied, "Well he's also worried that I don't make sense. I think in terms of tangents, and that's what I love, and those are the singers and the writers that I love, and the poets. I love to start with one thing, start with some leaves in the garden, and kind of trip out, and go, really far, into where we go, and we are...that's how I think. I was a spaced-out child... I was this way at six. I was spaced-out, and I was absent-minded, and maybe was long-winded, and I had all these tangents going. But that's what story tellers do, Sam. You have four or five balls in the air, and or three or four of those plates, you have some plates in the air, and that's what a good novelist is doing, keeping the plates in the air.”

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Author:Anne Lamott
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“It wasn't that I gave up on her healing, but, as she continued to struggle to get in the door and actively needed her self-hatred to stay functional, I began to realize more deeply that her patterns had meaning and that it wasn't useful for me to predetermine what recovery might look like for her.”

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Book:The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
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“You want to lash out at the parts of your self that seem to hold you back. At moments like that, it's important to be able to sit down and speak gently within yourself, as if saying a prayer or reading a poem. Whichever part of you is unhappy, reassure it: accept your many selves, and allow them to speak both to you and to each other.”

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Book:The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope
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