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“The next time I come over i’m stealing the stick to your blinds.” is absolutely crazy work

wow this book is written so well 😭

i’m high rn this book is crazy blomkvist is serving rn

i want to say how much better this book is than the first one

FASTE BITING THE CURB 4K!!!!!

i need to see faste biting the curb 4k

this book is a lot to process, i think im gonna take a break from it

“if you have a comfortable connection with your inner sensations - if you trust them to give you accurate information - you will feel in charge of your body, your feelings, and your self.”

“knowing what we feel is the first step to knowing why we feel that way.”

be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves…live the questions now. perhaps you will gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer

- rainer maria riike

- be more conscious of combining top down approaches (activate social engagement) with bottom up methods (calm physical tensions in the body)
- be open to non-pharmacological approaches to health

not being fully alive in the present keeps people more firmly imprisoned in the past

if you want to manage your emotions better, your brain gives you two options: regulate from the top down (strengthen medial prefrontal cortex) or bottom up (recalibrate ANS)

it is critical for trauma treatment to engage the entire organism, body, mind, and brain

being traumatized means continuing to organize your life as if the trauma were still going on, as every new encounter or event is contaminated by the past. After trauma the world is experienced with a different nervous system.

before brains the universe was also free of pain and anxiety

No matter how much insight and understanding we develop, the rational brain is basically impotent to talked the emotional brain out of its own reality.

1. our capacity to destroy one another is
matched by our capacity to heal one another
2. language gives us the power to change ourselves and others
3. we have the ability to regulate our own physiology
4. we can change social conditions to can safe environments

children from low income families are four times as likely as privately insured children to receive antipsychotic medicines

“the greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves.”

wow this book is beautiful

“one day crossing the Golden Gate Bridge in a fog so dense…mirrored her state of mind so perfectly she felts as if she were walking through her own brain: a haze of formless, pervasive emotion…”

i have to stop reading today, i want to enjoy his book tomorrow too 💔

“Mia realized that she was crossing into a place she would have to go alone.”

“bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh”