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The most important factor is your experience of feeling felt.
People often mistake numbness for nothingness, it isn’t the absence of feelings; it’s a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings.
Each patient is simply a snapshot, a person captured in a particular moment. You in that fraction of time, but not you in your entirety.
You’re going to feel pain but you don’t have to suffer so much.
— Nov 17, 2025 08:10PM
People often mistake numbness for nothingness, it isn’t the absence of feelings; it’s a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings.
Each patient is simply a snapshot, a person captured in a particular moment. You in that fraction of time, but not you in your entirety.
You’re going to feel pain but you don’t have to suffer so much.
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Nikki
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Maybe our past don’t define us, but inform us.
‘Old people still fuck.’ It’s her best-selling piece to date.
“Almost is always the hardest, isn’t it?”
“Maybe happiness is sometimes.”
“First you will do, then you will understand.”
‘Let’s edit your story.’
— Nov 25, 2025 05:59PM
Maybe our past don’t define us, but inform us.
‘Old people still fuck.’ It’s her best-selling piece to date.
“Almost is always the hardest, isn’t it?”
“Maybe happiness is sometimes.”
“First you will do, then you will understand.”
‘Let’s edit your story.’
Nikki
is on page 313 of 415
Sometimes “drama”, no matter how unpleasant, can be a form of self-medication, a way to calm ourselves down by avoiding the crisis brewing inside.
Reacting vs responding = reflexive vs chosen
I almost hate being in too good of a mood on therapy days – what’s there to talk about?
When we give our minds space to wander, they take us to the most unexpected and interesting places.
— Nov 25, 2025 05:57PM
Reacting vs responding = reflexive vs chosen
I almost hate being in too good of a mood on therapy days – what’s there to talk about?
When we give our minds space to wander, they take us to the most unexpected and interesting places.
Nikki
is on page 281 of 415
The answer to an unasked question is always no.
You are not the best person to talk to you about you right now.
Most things worth doing are difficult.
Happiness (T) = wo + w1 E3-1 Yi CR, + พ.E)-1 y V+ ws E-e T RPi
He loves dairy and she loves him, so she never moves.
Repertoire of relational themes.
Sometimes the only thing to do is yell, “Fuck!”
— Nov 24, 2025 02:13PM
You are not the best person to talk to you about you right now.
Most things worth doing are difficult.
Happiness (T) = wo + w1 E3-1 Yi CR, + พ.E)-1 y V+ ws E-e T RPi
He loves dairy and she loves him, so she never moves.
Repertoire of relational themes.
Sometimes the only thing to do is yell, “Fuck!”
Nikki
is on page 152 of 415
It’s ok not to know.
Your feelings don’t have to mesh with what you think they should be.
He switches his crossed legs from right over left to left over right, something therapists do when their legs start to fall asleep.
We are creating the future in our minds every day. If we spend the present trying to fix the past or control the future, we remain stuck in place, in perpetual regret.
Welcome to Holland!
— Nov 18, 2025 06:09PM
Your feelings don’t have to mesh with what you think they should be.
He switches his crossed legs from right over left to left over right, something therapists do when their legs start to fall asleep.
We are creating the future in our minds every day. If we spend the present trying to fix the past or control the future, we remain stuck in place, in perpetual regret.
Welcome to Holland!
Nikki
is on page 60 of 415
We can’t have change without loss.
Fireflies love the dark too.
Sometimes we are the cause of our difficulties.
But if silence can be heard, tonight’s silence sounds different.
Will you see the human in my being?
“The only way out is through.”
Most big transformations come about from the hundreds of tiny, almost imperceptible, steps we take along the way. A lot can happen in the space of single step.
— Nov 17, 2025 08:02PM
Fireflies love the dark too.
Sometimes we are the cause of our difficulties.
But if silence can be heard, tonight’s silence sounds different.
Will you see the human in my being?
“The only way out is through.”
Most big transformations come about from the hundreds of tiny, almost imperceptible, steps we take along the way. A lot can happen in the space of single step.
