242 / Housing That Fosters Belonging
It resides within connections.
Barbara Fredrickson • Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection
The Self pivot takes the healthy energy of yearning to belong and swings it in the direction of reconnecting with our transcendent I/here/now sense of awareness, allowing that awareness alone to be at the core of what we take ourselves to be.
Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
As babies, for example, how our parents or caregivers treat us imprints us with an ‘attachment style’ that governs how we relate to others for the rest of our life. Their feedback, verbal and nonverbal, deposits the first layers of sediments in what become our ‘limiting beliefs’ about ourselves and the world, ideas that get further reinforced by sc
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“ We build our own prisons and serve as our own jailkeepers… but clearly our parents and the society at large have a hand in building our prisons. They create roles for us — and self-images — that hold us captive for a long time. The individual intent on self-renewal will have to deal with ghosts of the past — the memory of earlier failures, the re
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