Choosing Love After a Lifetime of Hurt | Matthew Quick

The alcohol I don't even think was the problem. It was just the thing that made me forget about the problem for a while. It was going back into these deep childhood wounds. And trying to reparent myself, reprogram myself and get out of these habits and to really internalize this belief that I am an autonomous person. And I'm allowed to be who I am. Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thought we have.

Quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think. Ring true. And yet, for many of us, our thought strengthen or empowers us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity. Jealousy or fear.

We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.

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