“If you don't allow a feeling to begin, you also don't let it end.”Tagged: Mental Health, Feelings, emotions, Anxiety, Emotion vs. reason
“Minds are useful when we need to conceptualize, plan, theorize. But when we depend on them to guide our inner lives, we're lost.”Tagged: Mental Health, Feelings, emotions, minds, Brains
“Grief hurts, sadness hurts, but it's not the feelings that destroy us. It's what we tell ourselves about the feelings.”Tagged: Mental Health, Feelings, emotions, Pain, Grief
“The answer to ‘I have no idea how I am going to get through this’ is: you allow yourself to sob, to heave, to feel as if your heart has a boulder crashing through it.””Tagged: The way forward, Pain, Suffering, Mental Health, Recovery
“Food is good and comfort is good. Except that when you are not hungry and want comfort, food is only a temporary palliative; why not address the discomfort directly?”Tagged: food, Mental Health, eating disorders