Below are the best resources we could find featuring martha beck about emotional health and well being.
CLEAR ALL
In the past 10 years, I've realized that our culture is rife with ideas that actually inhibit joy. Here are some of the things I'm most grateful to have unlearned:
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests, and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness.
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No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive, and expansive. . . . The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.
People who don’t honor their losses don’t grieve. They may lose all joy in living, but they don’t actively mourn, and this means that they don’t heal.
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