“Your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don’t go there alone,” explains Augusten Burroughs in Dry, his memoir about overcoming alcoholism. While therapy and coaching certainly makes braving “unsafe neighborhood” in our head easier, it can only go so far. It’s not like our therapist can actually climb inside our brain and evict all the bad guys. We can begin making the dangerous places in our mind safe again by choosing the right daily activities.
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