34 Quotes by Philippa Perry

The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about being aware of these extremes and steering yourself to areas where you work best which usually tend to be more in the middle than at either extreme edge.

Beginning a new habit, or ending an old one can feel like letting go of a rope that swings a mile above the ground. So we feel reluctant to let go, after all, we’ve survived so far doing what we’ve done, why risk it.

Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life.

A relapse doesn’t mean you’ll never walk down the path you prefer. But I think relapses are almost an inevitable part of any course of self-development.

Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution’s invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions of its own genome and thus adapt to environmental pressures, physiologic changes, and experiences.

The trouble is if we take no new steps to try a new challenge, our comfort zone doesn’t seem just to stay still, but retract.

If we keep practicing mental skills it is likely we can strengthen neural connections and make new connections.

Change happens, if it needs to, when we become aware of what we are, not when we try to become what we are not. I.

It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.