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Who Are You, If Neither Side Of Your Inner Conflict Is You?

Both voices in your inner conflict sound exactly like you You already know the argument by heart. One voice says, “I should be over this by now.” Another answers, “I will never get over this.” The first voice is impatient. The second is despairing. Both speak in the first person. Each sounds entirely familiar. This

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“Don’t Give Me So Much Happiness, Love, Freedom — I Can’t Handle Any More”; Why the Good Is Harder to Hold Than the Bad

Why you can’t handle happiness, love, or freedom when it finally arrives — and what keeping them at a distance protects There is a sentence almost no one says out loud, because it sounds absurd: enough — please, no more of the good things. Nobody admits to it. And yet you may have lived it,

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