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15 Golden Pieces Of Advice People Got From Their Therapists This Year | HuffPost | 24 Dec 2020

HuffPost spoke with several people about the best advice they learned from their therapists in 2020, and how these discussions changed their outlooks:

• Thoughts are not facts
• Be gentle with yourself
• You don’t need to carry all the burdens
• We cannot control other people’s thoughts
• Sit with grief and allow yourself to feel it
• Stop trying to be fine, and instead start being real
• Take care of yourself first
• Nurture and love yourself in the ways you weren’t as a child
• There’s never a perfect moment to have hard conversations
• You do not need to stress yourself over waiting for perfection
• Passion + competence = self-confidence
• It’s healthy to set boundaries with others as you learn to find your voice
• Be helpful with your words
• Even if you’re not the smartest person in the room, your voice still matters
• You know your body and mind better than anyone
• Celebrate when you’ve had a breakthrough in therapy
• Give yourself the empathy you freely give to others