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Freedom isn’t about having permission to do whatever we want… it’s about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.

Bill Crawford

Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.
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Acceptance Hardest Validation
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
You can’t use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
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Anxiety Anxious Use
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
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
Becoming critical in the face of criticism, only inspires more criticism.
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Becoming Criticism Faces Inspire
You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.
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Change Manage Stress
We limit our success when we mistake the limits of our perception for reality.
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Mistake Perception Reality
Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) – It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.
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Brain Change Chemical Fall Sleep
The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life’s transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.
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Giving Opportunity Powerful
A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.
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Meaningful Skills Want
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
You can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.
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Create Fighting Fire Happen
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
To influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.
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Influence Knows Others People
Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.
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Optimism People Uncertainty Worry

Freedom isn’t about having permission to do whatever we want… it’s about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.

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