By Kristy Wallace
Focusing on the science of happiness, Nataly Kogan talks about how she came up with the idea for her company, Happier, and why it’s important to practice gratitude and self compassion.
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I’ve never openly talked about or shared my experience with depression, but I’ve been feeling lately that I should share with you guys my experience in the hopes that I can help someone out there dealing with it.
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When we take rejection as proof of our inadequacies, it’s hard to allow ourselves to risk being truly seen again. . . . The problem arises when shame kicks in and we aren’t able to view our flaws, limitations, and vulnerabilities in a patient, self-loving way.
Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful.
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
By the time she was in her late twenties, Tara Schuster was a rising TV executive who had worked for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and helped launch Key & Peele to viral superstardom. By all appearances, she had mastered being a grown-up.
This book will teach you how you can achieve self-compassion and find greater happiness and inner peace by being your own best friend, developing beliefs that work for you, knowing you are inherently worthy, and not projecting your needs onto others.
The Power of Now meets Change Your Brain, Change Your Life in Elisha Goldstein's new book, that - in seven simple steps - shows you how to take back control of your mind, your mood and your life.
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Discover ways to befriend your inner critic and be happy with who you are, just as you are, no matter what you are doing or not doing.