Mark Wolynn

Fear and anxiety shrink your world and drain your vitality, restricting the day in front of you and limiting the life ahead of you.

If the core language map is a tool for locating buried treasure, the core sentence is the diamond you find when you get there.

Written Exercise #7: Tweaking Your Core Sentence

Pain does not always dissolve on its own or diminish with time

What I failed to realize at the time is that when we try to resist feeling something painful, we often protract the very pain we’re trying to avoid.

we come from affects where we go,

The family story is our story. Like it or not, it resides within us.

Pain would meld into numbness, and numbness into pain.

Unable to feel at ease inside our bodies, we search for relief in the next glass of wine, the next purchase, the next text or phone call, the next sexual partner.

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.