The Completion Process Quotes

“The truth is that an enlightened person has made a practice of releasing all resistance from his or her being. It’s not that they never experience conflict or pain. It’s that they are willing to be open to experiencing conflict and pain.”
― Teal Swan, The Completion Process: The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again

“Without a healthy emotional life, a relationship is not a relationship; it is a social arrangement where no intimacy or connection exists.”
― Teal Swan, The Completion Process: The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again

“The emptiness that we feel is the result of those rejected (and therefore
suppressed) parts of ourselves. Your soul wants only one thing, and that is to
make you whole again.”
― Teal Swan, The Completion Process: The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again

“self-rejection is the birth of
self-hate.”
― Teal Swan, The Completion Process: The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again

“Children who are raised in unhealthy emotional environments aren’t able to
soothe themselves. Very often, they fail to emotionally connect with their family.
If they don’t develop intimacy at home, they feel desperately isolated and alone,
which may also lead to health problems.”
― Teal Swan, The Completion Process: The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again

“There is a huge difference between doing something that scares us and that we really don’t want to do, and doing something that scares us but that we really do want to do.”
― Teal Swan, The Completion Process: The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again

“Once you develop a willingness to feel, eventually your emotions will no longer frighten you.”
― Teal Swan, The Completion Process: The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again

“Stop trying to feel better, instead become better at feeling.”
― Teal Swan, The Completion Process: The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again

“It’s far better to view our
extreme negative reactions to other people, and our extreme positive ones, as the
perfect opportunity to develop our own self-awareness.”
― Teal Swan, The Completion Process: The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again

“Self-awareness doesn’t come
naturally to those who avoid pain because to become aware of those lost aspects,
you must stop trying to escape the emptiness within you where those missing
parts should be”
― Teal Swan, The Completion Process: The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again

“That’s because you have learned over the course of your life to invalidate your own feelings, and you impose this expectation on the people who surround you. Even though you wish you didn’t feel the way you do, it’s time to admit your feelings and stop being ashamed.”
― Teal Swan, The Completion Process: The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again

“If you are a person who hates drama, then you are probably also someone who frequently invalidates other people’s feelings by telling them that they are the ones being dramatic.”
― Teal Swan, The Completion Process: The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again

“If you tell someone how she should or shouldn’t feel, you are teaching her to distrust herself. You are teaching her that there is something wrong with her.”
― Teal Swan, The Completion Process: The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again

“Anxiety disorder is so often the result of extreme self-doubt and self-distrust. Self-distrust, or being afraid of yourself, is another result of being led to believe that you should not feel how you feel. When you fear yourself, you have constant anxiety. It’s like living with an enemy inside your own skin.”
― Teal Swan, The Completion Process: The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again

“Having your emotions constantly invalidated is a key cause of anxiety.”
― Teal Swan, The Completion Process: The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again

“It’s not the uncomfortable feelings themselves that hurt, it’s our resistance to the uncomfortable feelings that causes us pain.”
― Teal Swan, The Completion Process: The Practice of Putting Yourself Back Together Again