Rebecca Ray, "Small Habits for a Big Life" (Macmillan, 2022)
New Books in Psychology
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How to Develop Habits in Your Life
Habits are advertised as like a running chain of ticks on a calendar and if you miss one day of doing the thing then you've messed up the entire Trent chain that's how Western society advertises habits to us they advertise them from a place of almost superiority. If it doesn't come with self-compassion and with self-kindness so that you're able to read your body and reading your mind in such a way that you're not backing yourself into a corner then as far as I'm concerned you're essentially just being a drill sergeant to yourself. Our relationship with ourselves is present a hundred percent of the time every single day we're with ourselves for the rest of our life
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