KATE BOSWORTH: ON HOW TO BOUNCE BACK FROM HITTING EXHAUSTION SPIRITUALLY & MENTALLY



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  • Be comfortable with the discomfort.
    • She's a person that isn't comfortable with the unknown.
    • She felt this was hindering her more than helping her.
    • Getting into the unknown, started with fear and then evolved into excitement.
    • Just by doing that, she started to enjoy the unknown.
  • Approach life with a more observational pov, rather than a controlling or forceful pov
  • You need to be confident enough to be vulnerable
    • You can be OK with not knowing all the answers.
    • Sometime its easier (or even comfortable) to be angry
    • Most people see vulnerability as weakness - not confidence.
    • But it takes confidence to be vulnerable around people.
  • How to let go of people with love
    • She saw things through 2 pillars - fear and love
    • Fear of the unknown. Fear of losing what you have. Fear of not getting what you want.
    • But love was the opposite of that.
    • She tried to identify which of these fears her relationships were based on
    • She could then analyze, why does she feel that fear in that relationship. Why does she want to change this relationship.
    • To let people go with love is with communication - be honest about what you feel about the relationship.
  • We will thrive more in our lives and relationships if we're open to vulnerability
  • There's certain skills/qualities that will take you upwards and outwards
    • Discipline
    • Grit
  • There's others that take you deeper and inwards
    • Vulnerability
    • Compassion
  • You can't look to someone else to fix you
    • It's not someone's responsibility to fix someone else.
  • In relationships
    • Over time, You form patterns that are healthy and those that are unhealthy.
    • You need communication upfront to deal with these.
    • Take a minute to see what it is your participating in that isn't making you or your partner happy.
    • It's OK to have set backs, cos that can indicate progress.
    • But be vulnerable to communicate it.
    • Let your ego go at that point, and take a moment to think/reflect about whether you agree.
  • Three thing s for strong love: trust, respect, accountability.
  • Trust
    • Trust your self to be vulnerable.
    • Trust your partner to be vulnerable with you.
  • Respect to do so
  • Accountability
  • Bring these into your communication
    • When confronted with a thing - "we need to work on this"
    • Ask your self, whats my accountability here? Etc.
  • How did you deal with rejection?
    • Put rejection in its place
    • It doesn't belong to you
    • There are so many factors that go into it that doesn't have much to do with you.
    • Be happy for others success.
  • Jealousy
    • It can be a consuming feeling - it suffocates you.
    • Triggers from the fear of not getting what you want or losing what you have.
    • If you don't like how jealousy makes you feel or behave - choose to be happy for others.
  • Books
    • Evidence of things unseen
    • The Little prince.