By Martha Beck — 2020
You’re certain you know what your problem is. Fabulous, says Martha Beck—unless it’s distracting you from an even more alarming issue. O’s life coach goes deep.
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Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful.
The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.
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Iyanla Vanzant says that the first step to loving yourself would be looking at everything about you and being OK with it. Iyanla Vanzant also says that in order to heal the pain, you’ve got to feel it, deal with it and heal it: feel, deal, heal.
Acharya Shunya illustrates that accepting yourself involves accepting the part of you that is still learning and the part that knows all. Accept all of you - the pure love part, the learner, the learned. Strive to bring more of the “pure love” part of you out.
Something happens every time I stop fighting with the way things are. Something happens to every one of my students when they stop running their familiar programs about fear and deficiency and emptiness.
Spiritual teacher Panache Desai explains that as you embrace yourself, including your neuroses, you begin to realize public opinion and approval are inconsequential to your soul’s development. Finding the courage to live in alignment with that is the experience of love.
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Achieving equilibrium in today’s age of anxiety can seem like a near-impossible—even frivolous—task. Panache Desai offers a refreshing, surprisingly unusual approach to meet the challenges of the modern moment and heal the fractured self it produces.
Rosie Molinary on radical self-acceptance, living your purpose & the myth of effortless perfection.