Self-Knowledge (Essay Books)
Emotional health is concerned with such things as:1 naming, recognizing, and managing our own feelings; identifying with and having active compassion for others; initiating and maintaining close and meaningful relationships; breaking free from self-destructive patterns; being aware of how our past impacts our present; developing the capacity to exp
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Our overall nervousness declines when our anxieties are systematically laid out and examined.
The School of Life • Self-Knowledge (Essay Books)
Afflicted by a lack of self-love, romantic relationships become almost impossible, for one of the central requirements of a capacity to accept the love of another turns out to be a confident degree of affection for ourselves, built up over the years, largely in childhood.
The School of Life • Self-Knowledge (Essay Books)
Since the Health-o-Meter would be so accurate, they would not be able to fool themselves that cleaning out a closet is as much fun as sitting down with a great book for two hours. Nor would they portray themselves as gladly living to make everybody happy. They wouldn’t be able to deny their own needs because the Health-o-Meter wouldn’t let them.