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Ok more complicated thoughts: parts of it are definitely clicking with me. But i just feel like it all sounds like the rambling of a person trying to explain trauma response and mindfulness without the full understanding of these concepts. It appeals to the pathos with things that sound profound and sensible until you think about it more and it’s like huh? Like “I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier.”

The tone rubbed me the wrong way while I’m reading r u mad at me which is specially about anxiety as the nervous system’s automatic trauma responses. It’s not a dnf like the 5am club but this book is the exact type of “easier said than done” type of preaching that I dislike about self help books

Ok i googled some reviews to get validation of how I feel about this book. It sounds like it makes a lot of sense, but it also sounds like gibberish a lot of the times? And the best review phrasing I saw is: heavy on prescription, light on mechanism. Like just open your heart and don’t have any fear! You’ll be happy! Like ok but how specifically though. Also the downplaying of trauma response. Probably why

But I feel like some level of anxiety must be healthy right? If I don’t wanna do my work, and I let the discomfort simply pass through me, and I don’t finish my work, I get fired lol. I feel like a lot of things in life requires hard work and you can’t detach your way through it all

Finishing old books that I never finished. This one I stopped reading cos it’s kinda wack. It’s still kind wack but I’ve certainly become more open to meditation since first picking this up