Status Updates From How to Do the Work: Recogni...

Page 35: Not believing every thought you have, beginning work means creating a daily routine you stick to in order to break habits.
Important page

Page 33-34: Interesting aging study

Page 29: Homeostatic Impulse
Comfort zone, saves energy to stick to habits and routines, gravitation towards the familiar

Page (19-20): Do the Work - See if you're stuck
Questions

IMPORTANT - TENETS OF HOLISTIC PSYCHOLOGY (Page 16)
1. Daily event
2. Control
3. Pull towards the familiar
4. Taking responsibility is empowering

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Page 14: Placebo effect (power of mind), runners' study, when we expect to get better we do; nocebo effect (thoughts make us worse instead); doctor's terminal mistaken diagnosis led to someone dying

Page 12: more on the epigenetic perspective

Page 11: Having choice and power in your own health & healing
Not just following the gospel of doctors
Epigenetics

There was an air of arrogance in the beginning couple pages, but that went away and the book has got me interested now.

It’s helping me to remember who I am & being unapologetically me.

I focus on the hope rather than counting my losses.

This one's gonna take some reflection time for sure!

“If parent-figures have not healed or even recognized their own unresolved traumas, they cannot consciously navigate their own path in life, let alone act as trustworthy guides for someone else.”

Ain’t that the damn truth!

“We all want to be better versions of ourselves. But our attempts to do so have failed because we don’t understand our own minds and bodies. We don’t have the practical tools to understand how to create the changes we seek to make.”

The placebo studies are so interesting. The power of the mind is insane!

“Emotional addiction is particularly powerful when we have habitually seek or avoid certain emotional states as a way to cope with trauma.”

Oof!

“There is comfort in knowing exactly what your life will look like, even if that reality is making you sick.”

I can’t believe this has as many positive reviews as it does I mean wtf people

Y’all I am facing stuff on here better than I did in YEARS (decade+ of therapy). Unreal.

The author was hyping her own achievements/holistic psychology up so much before even explaining what it is. It gave self-important/arrogant vibes which doesn't leave a good impression.
Would be better to explain the therapy/solution BEFORE and then tell us why you're great.

(date: likely around Oct 14)

I was having a debilitating anxious day, lungs hurting and slipping in and out of disassociation kinda anxiety. Finally picked this up and made a tiny dent in it. It's not the quick read I was expecting. I thought I'd learn a thing or two, go oooh and aaah, and call it a day. This makes you actually, well, do the work. 2 exercises down. Made a dedicated journal for it and feeling pretty good about it.

Başlarda çok iyi ve akıcı gidiyor fakat yazar bir noktadan sonra sürekli tekrara düşüyor, belki kitabı bitirdiğimde daha farklı düşünürüm.

[..] spert pirmo soli no zināšanas uz darīšanu [..]

I’ve never felt so seen in my life😭😭

Doing pretty good at setting boundaries lately!

no because.. the epigraph alone had me feeling so many emotions. Saying things I’ve never been able to successfully articulate. ….May or may not have cried

🤯🤯

I’m really enjoying this, but by taking my time to read it I sometimes forget that I put it down.

Forgot how good this book is, learning a lot!