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no, no it isn’t hard per say. it’s all the journey. try not to focus on the assumed ease and happiness of others and dig deep. this is a well drilling for passion. it is steady and surprising. there’s only so much one can fit into a day, but there is absolutely no limit to what we can be passionate about.

the case study is straight forward. ethically you wouldn’t ever want to half ass your efforts in someone else’s alliance with you. I can see that it happens and only the self aware will know their part in it. this is not a moment of reflective second guessing, no the choice is to learn from that landslide. am I kind? am I present? is the goal so simply stated that we can both measure our efforts in our run to it? do we need to run?

one theory suggests that we can appraise the situation, meaning find the thoughts that tie us emotionally to the core belief we’ve formed and challenge it, therefore applying a cognitive restructuring to that belief. I know that people do this, I’ve done this, for better or worse, tying myself to illusion and misconception, and chiseling that belief in the bedrock of my emotional face. how do we reappraise and restructure?

we will never need to re-enter toxic spaces, especially when it’s our thoughts that have poisoned the drinking water, we need then to recreate for ourselves notions based in reality, while remaining genuine, open and vulnerable…