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The Cost of Being Fine (What You Traded for Safety)

  1. Hook slide — The Cost of Being Fine (What You Traded for Safety)

    The Cost of Being Fine (What You Traded for Safety)

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  2. The insight — The specific quality that the self-abandonment wound most reliably prevents is not happiness or success but aliveness...

    The specific quality that the self-abandonment wound most reliably prevents is not happiness or success but aliveness...

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  3. The truth — The Cost of Being Fine (What You Traded for Safety)

    The truth about the cost of being fine (what you traded for safety)

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  4. Key takeaway — The specific quality that the self-abandonment wound most reliably prevents is not happiness or success but aliveness...

    The specific quality that the self-abandonment wound most reliably prevents is not happiness or success but aliveness...

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The specific quality that the self-abandonment wound most reliably prevents is not happiness or success but aliveness: the felt sense of being fully present in one's own experience. This piece…

 

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