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neutrality-it’s complicity. #SoulfireBook #EmpathyMatters# MentalHealthAwareness #CopingWithStress# DrArthurCiaramicoli
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too small to make a difference. But beneath it all, there is a part of you that still believes in kindness when cynicism seems easier. Soulfire is your innate strength, your truth, your light. It is yours and yours alone. And remember, silence in the face of injustice, isn’t
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When power cuts itself off from wisdom, when leaders stray performing instead of serving, when it’s all about winning instead of building character, everybody feels it. Something dangerous happens; people stop believing they matter. They hand over their power, convinced they’re
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often it is the result of grown flexing there muscles to prove their masculinity. SoulfireBook #EmpathyMatters#MentalHealthAwareness#copingwithstressandanxiety#DrArthurCiaramicoli
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There are no winners in war, there is only the lost lives of innocent children and their parents. The heads of state relish in their power, while the poor and the vulnerable do the fighting and dying. Sometimes it is inevitable as in the destruction of Hitler’s regime, but more
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Your emotional life is molded by your emotional vocabulary. Emotional illiteracy isn’t stupidity, it’s a basic lack of instruction. #SoulfireBook#EmpathyMatters #mentalhealthawareness#CopingWithStress #drarthurciaramicoli
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We often turn away from uncomfortable feelings, like grief, anger, fear, because we worry they will overwhelm us. Ironically, when we suppress any emotion, we dampen all emotions. Numbing pain also numbs joy. #soulfirebook#Empathymatters#mentalHealthAwareness#copingWithStess #Drc
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can’t see immediate payoff. #soulfirebook#Empathymatters #Mentalhealthawsreness # CopingWithStess # DrArthurCiaramicoli
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The unglamorous truth about resilience,it is built in tiny increments through thousands of unremarkable choices, not in breakthrough moments, not in dramatic transformations, but primarily in the daily discipline of returning to practices that keep your flame tended even when you
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each one of us, have to focus on uniting not dividing. Our leaders are obviously not able or not interested in unity, which makes each of our efforts that much more important. We are not helpless but if we don’t spread our goodness beyond our own walls we are hoarding are best
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Today is supposed to be a day when Americans gather with family and friends, watch sports, eat good food and leave the troubles of the world behind. But in our current divided society it has become a contest between right and wrong, us and them, furthering the hate among us. We,
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system that wants you anxious and consuming. From ch4, The Power of Pause, Soulfire
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One of the hardest things for many people is giving themselves permission to pause. We’ve internalized so many messages against it: “Time is money “, “Sleep when you’re dead”, Winners never quit “, “Rest is for the weak “. Stillness is the rebellion against these messages and a
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losing you. They let you bend without breaking, adapt without dissolving. Ch.7, Anchors in the Current, Soulful
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Anchored people are less reactive;they have the stability to listen, to negotiate differences, and to extend grace while holding firm. They understand that boundaries are not walls but harbors. It is these anchors that make you stable enough to move through turbulence without
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