Mary Bast
If you’ve been trying to ignore or overcome the patterns of behavior you want to stop, then forget everything you thought you knew about change. Without realizing it, you’ve been giving those patterns energy, feeding them a tasty banquet with all the attention you’ve put toward not being someone you don’t want to be. The first principle of lasting change is to embrace the enemy. This is not a passive notion of giving up control, but rather the ability to surrender into the parts of yo...

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