Nick Ortner

When we accept ourselves as we are, we aren't "settling" or "keeping the problem in place." We're showing love and compassion for ourselves-for our feelings, our situation, and our history.

Our mind takes an inventory of past events and uses them to project the probability of success in the future. Depending on the information it gathers, we either move forward__r thefear response is triggered and forward progress is circumvented. Page 48

A person who is walking around with the belief I am safe in my body is going toapproach the world from a very different place than someone who doesn't believethat. That person will be more confident in approaching others, as Sonia was insharing her business at the women__ event. They__e going to be much more willing to put themselves out in the world, to be vulnerable in relationships, and to be willing to risk and dare, because they__e operating from a place of safety. Page 60

Under chronic stress, your body is more apt to enter a state of dis-ease. Unable to achieve its natural balance, it can__ function the way it should. The ripple effects can be profound. And yet Western medicine has trained us to focus on symptomsrather than root causes like stress. Page 71