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Book Preview: #1 The tree of life is a natural symbol for mothering. With its fruits and flowers, with birds and animals in and around it, it provides both shelter and supply. It is like a fountain of abundance.
#2 We are made of our mothers, and we are shaped by them. The way we see ourselves and our sense of self-esteem are heavily influenced by our mother. She is not the only influence...
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#1 I had engineered my life so the world came to my house, a comfortable hangout place for my family and friends. I had the ability to do almost all the business side of my collection there. I was just never going to be the cupcake mom or the arts-and-crafts helper at school.
#2 I was blindsided by the news that my father was getting a divorce. I had given my father...
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Book Preview: #1 We rely far more on what is being said than how it is being said. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors' lives depended on this ability, and today we rely on it solely before spoken language evolved.
#2 Somatic IFS therapists focus on the body in order to better understand and communicate with their clients. They develop the practices of Somatic Awareness, Conscious Breathing,...
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Get the Summary of Carolyn Elliott's Existential Kink in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Existential Kink" by Carolyn Elliott introduces a transformative practice that involves embracing and finding pleasure in the shadowy, unconscious parts of our psyche. Elliott argues that many harmful life patterns stem from repressed desires and a sense of wrongness about ourselves. By acknowledging and relishing in these...
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#1 People become frustratingly complicated when they doubt the legitimacy of their desires, which is often the case when they are afraid of how an audience might respond if their true intentions were to be known.
#2 We can untangle ourselves from our evasiveness and inadvertent slyness by noticing and growing curious about the origins of our behavior. We can recognize...
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#1 We are in an unprecedented global crisis when it comes to mental health. An estimated one out of every nine people, or eight hundred million people, suffer from a mental health disorder, the most common of which is anxiety.
#2 Anxiety has been recognized as far back as 45 BC, when the Roman philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero wrote in the Tusculan Disputations, as...
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Book Preview: #1 Winnicott's term, Good Enough Mother, refers to a mother who meets her child's needs in this way. parenting that is good enough takes many forms, but all of them meet a child's emotional or physical need in any given moment.
#2 Emotionally neglectful parents are those who fail their child in some critical way in a moment of crisis, causing the child a wound that may...
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Book Preview: #1 The pursuit of happiness is a myth. We've been told that happiness is the goal, but in reality, it is right there in front of us, behind the curtain of our own brain. It matters because it explains the differences between pleasure and happiness, and it explains why so many people are miserable.
#2 Pleasure is the visceral readout of activity in a specific brain area known as the reward pathway. It is the motivation for a given reward,...
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#1 I took my first microdose of LSD today. I had never been a regular drug user, but I had used illegal drugs several times in my life. I was not a fan of the taste of alcohol, and was easily intoxicated. I rarely drank.
#2 I had no idea how to buy drugs, so I began calling my gay male friends, hoping they would know someone who knew someone who knew someone who could...
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Book Preview: #1 Do not tell your narcissistic mother that you have a personality disorder. She will not hear you, and she will become even more defensive and attack you if you do. She needs to believe she is perfect, and will never consider that she is less than perfect.
#2 The first step in dealing with your mother is to continue seeing her as often as you already do, but keep your...
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Book Preview: #1 If Ted had gone to a therapist in the early twentieth century, he would have been treated with psychoanalysis, a therapy developed by Sigmund Freud and his followers. Psychoanalysis is based on a Freudian understanding of the mind, which includes the belief that early life experiences are powerful determinants of personality.
#2 The science of animal learning and...
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Book Preview: #1 Charles Darwin was a brilliant scientist who changed the way we view biology. However, he died considering his career a disappointment. He knew that by all worldly rights, he had everything to make him happy and content, but he was unable to cheer up.
#2 The most obvious sign of decline is seen in athletes, who typically peak in performance between the ages of twenty...
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Book Preview: #1 On October 24, 1960, a composer named Charles Dumont arrived at the Paris apartment of Edith Piaf with fear in his heart and songs in his briefcase. Piaf was one of the most famous entertainers in France and one of the best-known singers in the world. She had been in a coma due to liver damage three months earlier, but she remained notoriously mercurial and hot-tempered.
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Book Preview: #1 As an empath, you are able to feel the joy and tenderness of others as if it were your own. You need special self-care tools to maintain harmony and balance in your life.
#2 Empaths have a few common traits. They are extremely sensitive to energy and often feel emotions deeply. They can also sense what is really going on with someone emotionally, whether they share...
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#1 The Parallel Universe is a place where the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest does not tend to stay at rest, and not every action can be counted on to provoke an equal and opposite reaction.
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#1 The loss of our innate human potential is the greatest tragedy of all. We can help prevent this from happening to our children by teaching them to be curious and creative, and by raising them in a culture that supports those traits.
#2 I began to understand that when a child's development is arrested, feelings are repressed, and especially the feelings of anger and...
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#1 I was born on the Skeleton Coast of the former German colony of Namibia, where my father administered a small South African-owned company called Consolidated Diamond Mines. The holding company, De Beers, had created a virtual country within a country, known as the Sperrgebiet.
#2 The nature of consciousness is the most difficult topic in science. It matters because...
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#1 The philosophy of positive thinking is the doctrine of positive thinking at its most distilled. If you decide to think happy and successful thoughts, and banish the spectres of sadness and failure, happiness and success will follow.
#2 The Get Motivated! seminar is a global industry of positive thinking. It is staged roughly once a month in cities across North America....
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Book Preview: #1 Your brain can remember anything, and it does so by changing as a result of what you experience. Your brain perceives the sensory, emotional, and factual elements of what you experience through the portals of your senses.
#2 The four steps of memory formation are encoding, consolidation, storage, and retrieval. To create a memory, you must put the information into...
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Get the Summary of Johann Hari's “Stolen Focus” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only 65 seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts...
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