Your true self is the person you’re choosing to be. Transformation is in your nature as a human, but it only happens by choice and work. We’ve created a world for ourselves that is constantly changing because we are constantly changing. Transformation is adaptive and necessary.

New York Times Bestselling collection of poetry and short prose focused on understanding how past wounds impact our present relationships. A radically compassionate plan for turning inward and lifting the heaviness that prevents us from healing ourselves and the world, from the New York Times bestselling author of Clarity & Connection You have to be critical and intentional if you don't want to be told what to believe - if you don't want to be digitalized, siloed and exploited. p243 A healed world starts with a healed self. As we collectively move into the future, it’s important to reflect on our individual roles in this great big story of humanity. Most people would agree that we want to live in a world of love and kindness. Achieving the kind of compassionate systems and societies we need to advance our species starts with each of us doing the work to become compassionate human beings. And that compassion starts with how we treat ourselves. In short, loving yourself is the first step in healing yourself, your relationships, and the world. About the author To be supportive of each other, you need to understand that no one can make you happy. Expecting your partner to be the source of your happiness will doom your relationship to extreme stress and likely failure.An enlightening, cathartic book providing accessible insight into personal healing and positive change. Loving yourself might sound like a mountain you’ll never be able to scale. Or maybe you’ve gone to the other extreme. Maybe after a lifetime of people treating you badly, you’ve decided to love yourself above all others. So it’s important that you look for signs that you’re doing things right. Here are seven signs you can look out for. To expect another to resolve all of our issues and give us the happiness we desire is to expect to see the sunrise without opening our own eyes. It is to ask a river to give us nourishment without dipping our own hands into the water.

I’ve been following yung pueblo on social media for a little while now, and I love his little sayings. When I saw this book had come out, I was excited to read it as I thought I’d get more of that. That said, for those who've been through a few rounds in the personal development arena, this might feel like familiar territory. His advice feels somewhat therapist-like, with a dash of Eastern philosophy. That's not a bad thing – especially if you're just starting your journey of personal growth. But for those well-versed in this area looking for something fresh, you might need to keep searching. But you want it. And that’s the issue. Whatever it is you want that you can’t have, that’s what you have to let go of. And this letting go is what moves you out of reaction and into peace. Ultimately, to become 'lighter', we need to practice long-term self-awareness and self-reflection by examining our inner narratives and how our own thinking effects our emotions. Either way, it’s important to understand what self-love is not. It’s not materialistic. It’s not about giving yourself a spa day or treating yourself to ice cream because you deserve it. There’s nothing wrong with either of those things, and they can be acts of self-care, but that’s not the self-love we’re talking about.

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yung pueblo teaches how to heal with compassion as the driving force. Lighter is an empathetic and wise book that will guide you on a journey toward a deeper understanding of self and help you make impactful changes within and in the world. yung pueblo created a core curriculum on how to heal despite your experi­ences with suffering.” —Nedra Glover Tawwab, LCSW, New York Times bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace Let’s be honest here… We all feel like we need to have it all together before we can truly live our lives. We put our dreams on hold until we’re “fully healed,” whatever that means.