Seven Simple Truths to Free You from the Blues

Insight #1: There is never a good reason to go along with feeling bad about yourself.

Insight #2: The only thing feeling sorry for yourself changes about your life is that it makes it worse.

Insight #3: No matter how you look at it, you involve yourself with whatever you resist!

Insight #4: Being wrapped up in self-pity completely spoils any chance of being able to see new possibilities as they appear.

Insight #5: Feeling sorry for yourself is a slow-acting poison. First it corrupts, then it consumes your heart, choking it with dark and useless emotions.

Insight #6: The only thing that grows from cultivating any dark seed of sorrow is more bitter fruit.

Insight #7: There lives nothing real in our past - regardless of how disappointing or painful it may have been - that can hold us down, let alone make us its captive, any more than dark shadows have the power to keep us from walking into the sunlight.

Dr. Story acronym: SAARO-UC: Suffering as a Result of Unconscious Comparison