"I'm OK" - And All The Other BULLSH#T We Keep Telling Ourselves And Others: An Uncensored Approach On How To Stop Hiding Our Unhappiness and Deal With Life and Ourselves in a Self-Loving Way

by Simeon Lindstrom

We rob one another of authentic response

to another authentic human.

Is it really true that depression, anxiety, unhappiness etc. is something to avoid and fix at all costs?

authenticity

Saying it out loud doesn’t make it any more real than it was before, it only makes you more real.

It’s a bit of a paradox: when you can accept your unhappy feelings, you actually can derive a measure of happiness from doing so. The reverse is true: pretending to be happy has the strange effect of making you less happy!

express yourself differently

give

YES ... and. I do!

story about who you are,

nobody can do that but you.

look at yourself, all of yourself, and accept it.

actively help you shape it,

the pain of living inauthentically was greater than the pain of taking a risk and being myself.