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This is beautifully written: 'Meaningful therapy has helped me to understand that what I wanted was not what I needed' 👇

At no point in human history have we been subjected to so much life advice from complete strangers, be very careful about whose words you take to heart, they're selling their path and know nothing of yours

You can read Siddhartha 100 times and still be blown away at the 101st

Many who enter the therapy professions were “parentified children” who became a parent’s emotional caretaker. They learned to be extraordinarily emotionally attuned and attentive to others’ needs and feelings—at expense of attending to (or knowing) their own. A costly superpower

Adults who know the value of joyful play. I'm #grateful for those adults. I'm #grateful for the adults before them who helped them discover that joy.

THIS I love that book

AI responds predictably and the way you want it to respond. It parrots back your own words and feelings. You are Narcissus staring into a rectangular black pool.

Thoreau, what a line

"A new study is the first to document the real-time connection between phone use & the amount of speech directed at infants. Even short phone use episodes are associated with a notable decrease in the speech infants hear from their mothers." psypost.org/first-study-to…

Now imagine the results of quitting social media AND choosing to go into depth therapy. What freedom for the tortured mind!

my addiction affected everyone around me. now I hope that my recovery does the same. 🤍

So very different from “affirming” and “validating”

“Don't forget to love yourself.” Soren Kierkegaard #love #self

“For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk the greater the faith.”

“There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.” -Albert Ellis

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

One of the most challenging lessons I've learned on this psychospiritual path.