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“The reality is that there are plenty of trustworthy people in the world rebuilding their lives. It was a very gradual process for me to open up and talk about what was really going on in my recovery. The more I started to take risks by talking to others, however, the more I had an opportunity to exercise boundaries. As I asserted new boundaries, I started to gravitate towards people with integrity, warmheartedness and decency.”

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Book:Drug Addiction Recovery: The Mindful Way
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“It's okay not to reply to someone's text right away. It's okay not to accept an invitation to a party. It's okay not to give someone a rundown of what's happening in your life today. It's okay not to share your relationship status. It's okay not to give people explanations as to why you changed your job or your house. It's okay to take a break, gain some space, and keep your life private. You can disconnect with others to connect with yourself, as many times as you’d like. You don't need to feel bad about being unable to give yourself to people in the way they hoped to receive you. The right people will love and support you regardless of the space and time you take for yourself.”

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Book:Not Broken, Becoming.: Moving from Self-Sabotage to Self-Love.
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“The power to say 'NO' comes from both courage and mindset. It’s a learned skill that unlocks your authentic self and sets you free.”

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Book:The Therapist's Handbook for People-Pleasers: Breaking Free from the Need to Please and Reclaim Your Life
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“You don’t heal by pretending you don’t feel. You heal by learning to feel safely. By giving yourself permission to have needs, and then slowly, courageously, meeting them, with care instead of judgment.”

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Book:The Therapist's Handbook for Healing Your Simpsons Syndrome: Unhook from Your Inner Chaos Characters with CBT, ACT, and a Little Humor
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“Without warning, all the tears I’ve been holding back are pouring out of me, hot and fast . . . It’s like I’ve taken all my sadness and wrapped it up in a package inside of me because I don’t deserve to grieve. But I can’t keep that package together anymore. The strings that bound it are fraying and snapping, and it’s all spilling out.”

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Book:Let's Go Swimming on Doomsday
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“And I have known meditators filled with doubt and self-condemnation when the practice has been stormy. Practicing with our best effort during periods of crisis and personal struggle may not bring about spiritual highs. It may, however, bring something more important: a strengthening of the inner qualities that sustain a spiritual life for the long term: mindfulness, persistence, courage, compassion, humility, renunciation, discipline, concentration, faith*, acceptance, and kindness.”

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Book:The Issue at Hand: Essays on Buddhist Mindfulness Practice
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“Healing is not a straight line. We often envision recovery as a steady progression from pain to wellness, but the actual path is more like a winding trail through a forest. ... But healing, whether physical or emotional, honours its own timeline. ... Acknowledging pain gives it space to transform. ... None of these actions are signs of weakness. They are evidence of feeling deeply and choosing to heal honestly”

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Author:Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World"
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“It's easier said than done but when you feel yourself out of balance within, stop in that present moment and catch your breathe. Remind yourself of 5 things, that help you feel most alive and re-centre your own energy frequency so you can continue living out of your intentions not the world's distractions.”

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Author:Nikki Rowe
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“Healing from burnout is a deeply personal journey, and what works for one person may not work for another.”

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Book:The Therapist's Handbook for Healing from Emotional Burnout: A Practical Guide to Reclaiming Your Energy, Focus, and Passion
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“I notice that when the other person has been in despair for a prolonged period, I begin to feel myself crumbling into discouragement internally. One of the ways my system seeks to protect both me and the other person is to activate into helpful doing. Even though it is a psuedo-engagement, the intent is to shelter both of us from being engulfed in despair.”

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Book:The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
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“Sometimes the ultimate act of self-compassion is turning off your phone and looking someone in the eye.”

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Book:The Compassion Revolution: 30 Days of Living from the Heart
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“My Dear Friend, Don't ever allow yourself to forget how incredibly special you are, even for a single second. Without you, the world would not be as magnificent. Let yourself remember to love again, starting with you loving you.”

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Book:Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
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“What if no one is coming to discover your hidden talents, to acknowledge your untapped potential, to heal you, to save you from yourself? What if the saviour was always supposed to be you? What if that’s why it hasn’t worked out with anyone else?”

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Author:Vironika Tugaleva
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“Self-compassion is simply being there for yourself. Not fixing. Not faking. Not forcing a motivational pep talk. Just being there, like a friend who pulls up a chair next to you on a hard day and says, “I see you. This is tough. And you’re not alone.”

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Book:The Therapist's Handbook for Healing Your Simpsons Syndrome: Unhook from Your Inner Chaos Characters with CBT, ACT, and a Little Humor
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“We all carry a constant companion: the voice in our head that narrates our days. ... The tone we take with ourselves shapes our mental landscape far more than we realise. ... Many of us would never say to a friend, “You’re so stupid, you always fail,” but we might say it to ourselves. ... What if, instead, we spoke to ourselves the way we would speak to someone we love? Encouraging, honest, and forgiving”

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Author:Ajmal.
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“Eternally place on hold the voice that justifies stories in your mind about inadequacy. Make love with the voice that attributes all the logic under the sun as to why you are adequate. Hold on to it, allow it to whisper sweetness in your ear. Abide with it, believe it. Discontinue ripping yourself to shreds. Quit admitting blasphemous utterances about yourself in your dwelling.”

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Book:The Voice Of Adequacy: Silencing Self-Doubt, Embracing Self-Love
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“You can choose a love and a life that does not break you. You can claim a softer beauty and a kinder want. Even your animal hunger can soften its rough edges and say a full-throated yes to what is good and kind and holy. Know that insanity is not a prerequisite for passion and that there is another pathway to your art, one that does not demand your pain as payment for its own becoming. Love, it doesn't have to hurt anymore.”

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Author:Jeanette LeBlanc
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“We are a succession of selves. The person you were at five is different from who you were at fifteen, twentyfive, fifty. ... Sometimes we look back at old versions of ourselves with tenderness, sometimes with embarrassment or regret. ... But those past selves were necessary. They led us here. They were trying to meet their needs with the knowledge they had at the time”

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Author:Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World"
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“To judge someone is to miss the divinity in that person, to think of them as less than who they really are. To judge is simply to project our own limitations onto another. When we feel compassion for our own limitations, for our own humanity, we never judge others. When we are conscious of our own greatness, we see the greatness of others.”

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Book:Heartfullness: 52 Ways to Open to More Love
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“Self-love is about slipping up, having the bad days and loving ourselves despite of them, forgiving ourselves and, most importantly, having compassion for ourselves and how we’re feeling. So, give yourself permission to fall down, but don’t give yourself permission to stay there.”

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Book:The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
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