Perfectionism is not the same as striving for excellence; it is a shield that blocks connection and fuels shame - Brene Brown
If compassion is the skill or ability to tap into our own experiences in order to connect with an experience someone is relating to us, compassion is the willingness to be open to this process - Brene Brown
When the brain is stressed, vomiting expels partly digested food in order to save the energy required to complete the digestive process. When the gut is stressed, partly digested food is ejected either because it is toxic or because the gut is currently not in a position to digest it properly - Giulia Enders
One theory proposed by research bacteriologists is that stress is unhygienic. The altered circumstances stress creates in the gut allow different bacteria to survive there than in periods of low stress - Giulia Enders
As it happens, the higher the hygiene standards in a country, the higher that nation’s incidence of allergies and autoimmune diseases. The more sterile a household is, the more its members will suffer from allergies and autoimmune diseases - Giulia Enders
Scientists are cautiously beginning to question the view that the brain is the sole and absolute ruler over the body. The gut not only possesses an unimaginable number of nerves, those nerves are also unimaginably different from those of the rest of the body - Giulia Enders
The gut has not only a remarkable system of nerves to gather all this information, but also a huge surface area. That makes it the body’s largest sensory organ - Giulia Enders
Play shapes our brain and fosters empathy - Brene Brown
