Detox Your Heart Quotes

“I remember once asking my therapist why it is always me who has to do the changing. She replied, “If you’re happy with the situation, don’t do anything; if you’re not, you’ll have to do something about it.”
― Valerie Mason-John, Detox Your Heart: Meditations for Healing Emotional Trauma

“Some of our triggers have been tagged by the British media “hurry sickness.” As one columnist wrote, “People who tap their fingers impatiently as they wait for the microwave to finish or huff and puff while their computer starts up could have the latest malady to modern living — ‘hurry sickness.’”13 We live life at such a fast pace that if something does not happen quickly enough, we can become indignant and sometimes enraged.”
― Valerie Mason-John, Detox Your Heart: Meditations for Healing Emotional Trauma

“A yawn is a silent scream.”
― Valerie Mason-John, Detox Your Heart: Meditations for Healing Emotional Trauma

“Once I got over the belief that I didn’t have a right to explore my life when there were many other people in the world experiencing greater suffering than I could imagine, I stepped onto the path that would truly allow me to change.”
― Valerie Mason-John, Detox Your Heart: Meditations for Healing Emotional Trauma

“We need to name the issue. What are the practical steps? Many steps have much in common. •Be clearly aware of the specific. •Remember to breathe mindfully through the desire and explore alternatives to the desire. •Remain one-pointed to overcome the issue. •Be willing to keep working with the issue on a daily basis. •Use our imagination to generate change. •Seek the kind support of others in the process.”
― Valerie Mason-John, Detox Your Heart: Meditations for Healing Emotional Trauma

“Social media draws us further into the already persistent habit of becoming stars of our own little personal movies. The movies we replay in our heads — held on to from lives past — cause us to recycle stories that no longer serve us, if they ever did.”
― Valerie Mason-John, Detox Your Heart: Meditations for Healing Emotional Trauma