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Jenny Taitz
You may even find that focusing on finding love, rather than loving your life, closes you off from great opportunities, or leads you to settle for something that doesn’t feel right.
was tired of watching other people travel to Thailand and expand their families via social media as I lay in bed alone in my studio apartment with an old laptop and a bad Internet connection.
Letting go of the maddening myth that happiness comes from coupling up is the first step to freedom. Stressing out about meeting someone will not help you meet that person any faster.
Whether I was single or partnered, during stressful times, it was mindfulness that offered me a way to reengage, and to escape the pain of imagining that my negative thoughts and feelings would last forever.
Once the women believed they were doing something healthy, their bodies responded.
Shifting our thinking powerfully impacts our body, mind, and emotions.
Yes
But we need to remember that overthinking ruins our mood and drains our energy, making it that much more difficult to actually fix anything.
There’s no way to prevent upsetting experiences but you can limit the duration of your pain by managing your mind.
Ruminating isn’t only depressing for the person doing it; it upsets others.
On some level, she was acting as if the more that she grieved, the more the universe might conspire to help her.
Me
