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Small Kindnesses

Small Kindnesses

A practice for changing your mind

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Niema Lightseed
Apr 15, 2024
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How do you talk to yourself? What words do you use to describe yourself, in the quiet moments when no one else can hear? When you have accomplished a goal? When you have made a mistake? How often do you apologize for taking up space, or berate yourself with shame for a perceived imperfection?

In Reversing Curses I shared a list of words and phrases that …

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