chickpea B’s Reviews > How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self > Status Update

New habits on it’s way. Read about reparenting as an adult in the metro on my way to work.

boundaries.
“she found her identity in pleasing others, and since she had no boundaries in place to protect her, she became so in service to others, that she lost all connection with her authentic self”.

“The bias is evolutionarily hardwired. In the early days of our species, we were much more likely to survive if we focused on the things that could kill us rather than the things that made us happy. Just like the autonomic nervous system’s fight-or-flight response, the bias is built into our operating system at the physiological level and is largely out of our conscious control”

I read about: mind-body healing practices; top down, bottom up, healing the gut (very interesting, I’ve been doing more research about this lately, mind blowing), healing sleep (besides this book I’m reading a book about why sleep is important, which is something I’ve been thinking about more as well). The holistic approach is a yes for me!

Stress. I need to decrease my stress

Also, nice journal excersises

So far lots of useful information. So far it's been a lot about childhood conditioning/trauma. I see that it includes lots of (written) exercises. Next journal session will be interesting.