BloGreatly

I had two beliefs, each of which seemed very logical to me. Both were confirmed by my life experience and other less significant understandings of the world. But they didn’t seem to work together; there was no logic in their connection. I was torn between these two beliefs, periodically switching from one to the other, not fully aware of this process.

Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to give universal advice regarding dieting. To offer somewhat workable advice, I need to know some information about the person. But here are some general tips on how to behave while traveling, assuming you know which foods help you lose weight and which ones cause weight gain.

Have you ever felt like you didn’t exist? Like you were walking through life unseen — not because you wanted to be invisible, but because others simply refused to see you?

I believe that the way we frame the question "What is love?" is often fundamentally misguided. Many people, when they seek to understand love, are really asking what it means when someone shows it to them: when they say, "I love you," when they give attention, care, affection, or gifts...

What a freaking cocktail of subjects I am. Sometimes it seems to me that I am a classic specimen for studying many topics, such as the rupture of relationships with my father at a tender age, merging with my mother, and the subsequent desire to reunite with her as one whole in mature relationships, even with the opposite sex, global beliefs in my own inadequacy and the refraction of perception of reality, observed through these ‘rose-colored’, or rather, black glasses. Well, and so on.

There are three types of kindness. The Kindness That’s Asked For The first type of kindness is the one a person needs and asks for.

I’ve made a decision I won’t walk back: From now on, the way a person communicates will be the primary factor I use to decide whether I trust them—especially if they are a therapist, coach, or guide.

For a long time, I believed I loved people. But recently, I admitted something that initially felt harsh, even misanthropic: I don’t. At least, not in the way I thought I did.

Self-love is equivalent to the absence of self-hatred, it’s a state of human consciousness that can be described as “simple” – devoid of self-flagellation, self-rejection on any level, constant self-reflection, self-criticism, self-punishment, and lack of self-respect.

“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable. That's why it loves perfectionists—it's so easy to keep us quiet. If we cultivate enough awareness about shame to name it and speak to it, we've basically cut it off at the knees. Shame hates having words wrapped around it. If we speak shame, it begins to wither.”