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It’s not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.

Bill Crawford

There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
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Choices Three World
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.
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Inadequacy Loss Nothing Relationship
Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
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Energy Shame Spurs Worry
Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.
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Order Pain Painful Past Serve
Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
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Important Issues Quality
The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
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Constantly Mean Mind Past
How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Giving Jerk People
Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives… but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can ‘color’ (change) how we see our present and future.
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Color Events Past
Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
To understand ourself, we must understand our “selves,” or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
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Behavior Decision Self
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
You never want to tie your responsibility to another’s irresponsibility.
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Responsibility Ties Want
When we take care of ourselves like we would take care of someone we love, the quality of our living and our giving goes up.
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Care Giving Quality
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
Nothing is meaningless it’s how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.
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Determined Meaningless Past
Fear of feeling bad rarely makes one feel good.
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Bad Fear Feel Feelings Good

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