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I already really enjoy this book. I relate to the author in many ways, and our beliefs are in alignment. I’ve only read the introduction and one chapter!

Surprisingly, survived the "inner child" chapter without rolling my eyes.

I feel like I’ve heard this before.

(cont'd) ... I understand (and appreciate) the explanation of neuroscience behind the efforts. I'm willing to give it a try. Why not? Some things are weird, and some things I like. Just ignore the parts you think are dumb lol

Like lots of 'self help /self care/ wellness/ open your mind' books, it has its 'hokey' feeling moments. I glanced at the reviews- seems like a lot of people hate it - but I am personally liking it so far! I like her allegations that you can only achieve true wellness if you are working on mind, body, and spirit (as opposed to only the mind, only the body, etc.). The journaling prompts sound ultra silly, but

Solo no lo lean bye

So good so far!

for the moment, it’s a lot of information that i already knew about and that i have learned from her on her instagram. i’ll let you all know if i find something new.

“we can’t expect others to do for us what we can’t do for ourselves” THIS!! others can’t help us if we don’t help ourselves.

واقعیت این است که تعداد کمی از ما با خود واقعی‌مان ارتباط داریم، اما از دیگران انتظار داریم که هسته درونی ما را از پشت تمام آن لایه‌هایی که به خاطر «خیانت به خود» شکل گرفته‌اند ببینند.

ما فقط نمود فیزیکی یک سری کدهای ژنتیکی نیستیم، بلکه محصول تعداد قابل توجهی از تعاملات هستیم که برخی از آن‌ها در کنترل و برخی خارج از کنترل ما هستند.

These inner-child core beliefs and ego realizations are intense but very necessary! Currently hoping for an ego death lmao

I've fallen behind on my self help goal and have been trying to catch up, and due to that maybe i am just burnt out because this is a chore to read and i find this repetitive and flawed (though there are some good parts). It just doesn't feel ground breaking and I find myself agreeing with the 1-3 star reviews more than the 4-5 thus far

This is probably super helpful for some people (not me though 💅🙄💪🏻💯)

DNF

Bailey recommended this one (🙄)

Completely in love with LePera’s perspective about psychological therapy. We are a system, integrated by body, mind and soul, there is correlation between those 3.

Feels good

Mm.. not hitting the angle I expected. I'll check it out again soon.

Going good

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Really interesting so far. I like all the scientific references and the suggestions for dealing with struggles in life, in a holistic way.

I’m embracing it.

I’m embracing the new perspectives !

I’m not reading this book. This book is reading me.

I love doing the work 🙈 also realizing all my bodily issues have to do with my trauma— EMDR here we go again

Such good nuggets and my brain is already changed “you are not your thoughts. You are the THINKER of your thoughts. You give your thoughts too much power”

Spoiler alert: I’ve never been able to get into self-help books. Won’t be able to finish this.

interesting!