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Emotional Agility:
Simply by facing up to the scary things and giving them a name, we often strip them of their power.
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Emotional Agility:
…it helps to remember one thing that all our favorite heroes and heroines have in common: They’re far from perfect.
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Emotional Agility:
The only way to get anywhere is through the practice of acceptance.
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Emotional Agility:
Recognizing you had to play the hand you were dealt is often the first step toward showing yourself more warmth, kindness, and forgiveness.
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Emotional Agility:
You can strive to learn from your mistakes and do better in the future. Self-compassion is the antidote to shame.
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Emotional Agility:
Compassion gives us the freedom to redefine ourselves as well as the all-important freedom to fail…
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Emotional Agility:
…we’re confronted… with… relentless invitations to compare ourselves with others – and inevitably, to come out lacking.
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Emotional Agility:
…warmth and kindness make us feel safe, valued, and that we can cope. So why can’t we be that kind of loving friend to ourselves…?
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Emotional Agility:
…someone else’s negative evaluation of you is rarely objective…
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Emotional Agility:
Your story is your story. You need to own it, rather than it owning you, and to honor it with compassion.
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