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Happy by Jeroen Werkman
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  • Post category:Behaviour / Mental health / Positive change
  • Post published:December 29, 2016

You have stories, but you are not your stories. You have labels, but you are not your labels. Make a list of everything you are, maybe 200 things. Return to your list regularly: keep adding to it or cross a few things out, which are no longer true for you.

Source: You Are Not Your Story, Mistake or Inner Critic’s Comments @ PsychCentral

Remember that you are not one thing. You are many, many things.

image: Happy by Jeroen Werkman under Creative Commons license

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Tags: behaviour, mental health, positive thinking

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