I’m reading a fabulous book that was required reading for a recent 4-day SomatoEmotional Release class I attended in St. Louis in August. Below are a few excerpts from:
Stop Trying. Start Living. The Art of Effortless Living. Do Less, Let Go, and Discover Health, Emotional Well-Being, and Happiness, by Ingrid Bacci, Ph.D., 2000.Berkley Publishing Group, New York, NY.
This couldn’t be more timely for me. If you’d like to read the toni-style cliff notes, click on the link above. I’m pasting in a few of my notes below.
Also, while I’m thinking about it, Boundaries 101 class is going to be offered at the Columbia Area Career Center for the third time beginning November 12. Monday nights for 5 weeks. 6:00-8:00 pm. Check it out!
pg 233: When we stop allowing our fears to control us and focus instead on developing inner balance and vision, then we become capable of deeper partnership.
pg 234: …healthy relationships depend on understanding that relationships are not in our lives to support our needs or foster our dependency. Instead, relationships teach us, often through difficulties, how to transcend our own limitations and to share with others from a place of mutual empowerment.
pg 239: You are not meant to ask someone else to give you what you need. That is so much less rewarding than discovering that you can give yourself what you need. You are not meant to accept the low standards that rule our world. You have the capacity to transform those standards and to inspire others to follow in your footsteps.