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Be Honest

Think about the last time someone started a sentence to you (or you started by telling someone else), “I have to be honest with you…”

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Kindness Turned Inward

I was recently talking to a patient who had picked up smoking again after successfully quitting. He was off cigarettes for a while, and then

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Radical Acceptance

I’ve written before how the way we define the opposite of something defines the thing itself. When we hear that we need to be more accepting

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Distillation

When we talk about distilling something down, we’re talking about reducing it to its essence. We take something made up of many constituent parts and

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Well That’s Awkward

At some point, all of us have done things that we are ashamed or embarrassed of. More than tripping on the sidewalk in front of

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Our Operating System

I’ve written before about how we are instant-gratification, pleasure-seeking, pain-avoiding monkeys. We are primates, and our nervous system (including our brain) is fundamentally wired to seek

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