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How do you know the difference between giving yourself a break and giving up entirely? [THREAD]

Looking for your shares and resources: Is there a line between self-compassion and escapism, acceptance and apathy?

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Hello! Happy Sunday! I’m asking you, dear reader, for your thoughts and links.

How do you know the difference between giving yourself a break, and giving up entirely?

This past week I watched a friend’s video in which he disclosed he was stuck and in pain1. At one point he mentioned that he felt perplexed (or frustrated?) by how he was making choices that hurt him instead of making choices that might help him (when he knows better, etc.). This got me thinking a lot about my own experience these past few years, and whether sometimes the hurting is the helping, and the helping is the hurting.

Do you know what I mean?

Like how sometimes the thing we are doing that we think we shouldn’t be doing is the very exact thing we actually need at that moment, and most of the pain we’re experiencing is our own moral judgments (“I shouldn’t be doing this”; “I should be doing that”; “What I’m doing is wrong”)? Or how sometimes the pain caused by the choice we made that we deem bad or wrong, but from th…

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