Don't Let Anything Dull Your Sparkle Quotes

“Your brain under stress is focused upon surviving and reacting, and less focused upon planning and creating. With chronic stress, your brain learns—and is rewired—to be focused upon survival and reacting only. It has difficulty amping up the area devoted to devising plans for the future. Constant time urgency takes a toll on your body, brain, and emotions. Here”
― Doreen Virtue, Don't Let Anything Dull Your Sparkle: How to Break free of Negativity and Drama

“Unhealed trauma is behind our health, weight, addiction, sleep, and relationship issues.”
― Doreen Virtue, Don't Let Anything Dull Your Sparkle: How to Break free of Negativity and Drama

“Behind every highly dramatic person lurks an unresolved trauma. Drama is his or her way of asking for love, and begging for help and understanding.”
― Doreen Virtue, Don't Let Anything Dull Your Sparkle: How to Break free of Negativity and Drama

“The physiology of binge eating was explained in Chapter 4. But it’s important to reiterate the bottom line: when you eat or drink something that you’re allergic to, you tend to binge on it because allergens promote addictive stress hormones, including histamine. So you may believe that high-histamine foods and beverages are your “favorites” just because you binge on them. Bingeing and enjoying are two entirely different processes, however: With bingeing, there’s an urgency to shovel as much as you can into your mouth. There’s a feeling that you can’t get enough, or that someone might take the food or beverage away from you. In enjoying a meal, in contrast, you take your time and savor each bite or swallow.”
― Doreen Virtue, Don't Let Anything Dull Your Sparkle: How to Break free of Negativity and Drama

“Vitamin C is a natural antihistamine. We traditionally think of orange juice as a ready source of vitamin C. But since oranges are high in histamine, your vitamin C can come from other low-histamine sources such as: Mango: 60.1 milligrams per cup (cut pieces) Kale: 80.4 milligrams per cup Broccoli: 81.2 milligrams per cup”
― Doreen Virtue, Don't Let Anything Dull Your Sparkle: How to Break free of Negativity and Drama

“So whether the psychological dependency is related to a desire to unwind, go faster, have more fun, or feel love . . . these high-histamine beverages are artificial means to legitimate goals. There are natural methods to achieve all of these goals, as we’ll explore in the next chapters. And with natural methods, the pleasurable feelings stay with you.”
― Doreen Virtue, Don't Let Anything Dull Your Sparkle: How to Break free of Negativity and Drama

“LOW-HISTAMINE SUBSTITUTES Instead of . . . Choose . . . Refined sugar Maple sugar or maple syrup Vinegar-based salad dressing Olive oil with sea salt Cheese Macadamia-nut butter Wheat Rice, oats, or corn (yeast-free) Coffee Chamomile tea Alcohol Smoothies Pepper or chili Seasoning with sea salt and oregano, garlic, sage, or rosemary Wheat cereal Oatmeal with maple syrup Wheat pasta Brown-rice pasta or brown rice Processed milks that contain pesticides, carrageenan, and other additives Macadamia milk (in a blender, blend macadamia nuts or macadamia-nut butter with water; oat milk and rice milk are also healthful and low in histamine, provided they are free of preservatives, carrageenan, and other additives) Spinach or arugula Kale or other lettuces Eggplant Squash A candy bar A brown-rice cake with maple syrup and macadamia-nut butter Canned soups Fresh vegetable soup, made with filtered water, pureed vegetables, garlic, and salt”
― Doreen Virtue, Don't Let Anything Dull Your Sparkle: How to Break free of Negativity and Drama

“Being pessimistic and expecting the worst is a posttraumatic symptom. It’s our misguided way of shielding ourselves from future disappointments, by not even hoping or trying in the first place. Pessimism gives you permission to not even attempt something fulfilling or healthful. You decide ahead of time that it’s pointless to make an effort to lose weight, write that book, finish school, or follow your dreams. In fact, the favorite phrase of pessimism is “Dream on!”—as if it’s crazy to dream about a better tomorrow. After all, if your yesterday was horribly painful, why should you expect today or tomorrow to be any better? It’s a negativity cycle, because if you don’t attempt to improve your conditions, then nothing will improve . . . and, most likely, things will worsen due to your neglecting yourself.”
― Doreen Virtue, Don't Let Anything Dull Your Sparkle: How to Break free of Negativity and Drama

“Many “comfort” foods are involved in the histamine allergy-addiction cycle. You see, we tend to binge-eat the foods that we’re allergic to. In the same way, those who are allergic to alcohol tend to binge-drink. We crave the high of the chemicals within these foods and drinks, as well as those our bodies release in reaction to them.”
― Doreen Virtue, Don't Let Anything Dull Your Sparkle: How to Break free of Negativity and Drama

“Following a trauma at any age, there’s a reduction in the number of neural pathways between the limbic system (pertaining to feelings) and the cortex system (managing thought and cognition). So after being traumatized, you’re less aware of your feelings.”
― Doreen Virtue, Don't Let Anything Dull Your Sparkle: How to Break free of Negativity and Drama

“Difficulties with concentration are correlated with sleep impairment, especially insomnia, arising from hypervigilance. The insomniac person is always on alert, which increases his or her stress-hormone levels and heart rate, and turns on the sympathetic nervous system. One of the roles of histamine, released in response to stress, is to ensure that you’re wide-awake. These processes make relaxation and sleep difficult.”
― Doreen Virtue, Don't Let Anything Dull Your Sparkle: How to Break free of Negativity and Drama