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The path to emotionally reconnecting with yourself

The Overwhelmed Brain

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The Golden Rule of Acceptance

Most people don't want to feel like they are under somebody else's thumb all the time or scrutiny. I used to make people meet my standards and when you snap out of that and you start focusing on yourself well if I have a problem with it it's my problem not theirs, he says. "I put myself in her shoes and imagined what that would feel like if that were me"  “You need to accept who she is because she's never gonna change’ ‘If I do that a lot of connection will erode so then what well if I can't change them then I have to make a decision for myself," Paul writes.

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