Brianna Wiest has written insightful books on how to better understand ourselves, think clearer, and to heal.
In When You’re Ready, This Is How You Heal, she offers her readers a fascinating phrase, “what if, instead of…”
Here are a few examples:
“What if, instead of believing that you have failed, you…”
“What if, instead of thinking that your life was meant to…”
“What if, instead of losing hope in the world and life itself, you…”
Before we begin a new year, it can be helpful to identify if we have any “what if, instead of…” possibilities we might want to explore. New ways of doing things. New ideas to try. New projects to attempt. New patterns to establish.
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