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Parts often become extreme in their protective efforts and take over your system by blending. Some make you hypervigilant, others get you to overreact angrily to perceived slights, others make you somewhat dissociative all the time or cause you to fully dissociate in the face of perceived threats. Some become the inner critics as they try to motivate you to look or perform better or try to shame you into not taking risks. Others make you take care of everyone around you and neglect yourself.
No Bad Parts
Richard C. Schwartz and Alanis Morissette
Choosing a growth mindset requires you to take a moment to hold space for possibility. Holding space for possibility looks like taking a breath. A real breath. Get the air past your throat. Consider that a life in which you readily and often feel joy is possible for you. The number of times you laugh in a week, the quality of your relationships, your ability to sleep through the night, your professional fulfillment—it can all change for the better.
The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control
Katherine Morgan Schafler
Like Mezz Mezzrow, the quintessential “White Negro” and legendary pot dealer, the Beats shared a deep affinity for black culture at a time when racial segregation was the norm.
Smoke Signals
Martin A. Lee
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