# The Healthy Mind Toolkit ## Metadata * Author: [Alice Boyes Ph.D](https://www.amazon.comundefined) * ASIN: B074LVGM53 * ISBN: 0143130706 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074LVGM53 * [Kindle link](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074LVGM53) ## Highlights You probably won’t truly understand a pattern until you can think of at least ten different examples of how that pattern manifests in your life. — location: [196](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074LVGM53&location=196) ^ref-57234 --- Shame and self-criticism are counterproductive to moving forward and are not warranted. — location: [204](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074LVGM53&location=204) ^ref-37366 --- “If you’re breathing, there’s more right with you than there is wrong with you.” — location: [208](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074LVGM53&location=208) ^ref-48674 --- Paying attention to only what you perceive you’re doing wrong is itself a self-sabotaging pattern. — location: [209](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074LVGM53&location=209) ^ref-4512 --- When people intellectually understand cognitive behavioral skills but struggle to feel and act better, it’s often lack of self-compassion and the ongoing presence of shame and self-criticism that are holding them back.2 — location: [211](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B074LVGM53&location=211) ^ref-51485 ---