Yesterday Never Sleeps: How Integrating Life's Current and Past Connections Improves Our Well-Being

Befriending our inner mind with curiosity opens the way to secure attachments, empathy, and intimacy.

Because relationships dominate our inner world, knowing what we feel, and what we think about how we feel, cultivates self-awareness and acceptance. We learn to respect that others have their minds; we stop blaming and seeking scapegoats. Self-reflection, a learnable skill, links raw emotion—the kind we feel in our hearts and guts—to past events and behavior patterns. Knowing the story behi...