[One Sip of a Book] You Did Your Best Back Then

Some sentences encapsulate the entire content of a book, while others instantly reach the reader's heart, creating a connection with the book. We introduce such meaningful sentences excerpted from books. - Editor's note

Have you ever felt an empty feeling as if you lost something in life? When you suffer from repeated regrets and guilt, when you cannot trust yourself and fall into self-hatred, when you are so trapped by past pain that you lose even the words to express it, the author recommends healing writing. Healing writing is a very concrete practice to fully accept your life and reconnect with yourself. In the book, the author shares not detached stories from reality but rich real-life cases, writing examples, and intimate personal stories. Through this, the author warmly and thoroughly guides the path to affirm life as it is and become confident in yourself.

Healing writing is irrational and unconscious writing. If you try to write well, healing writing does not work. Healing writing is the ‘words’ transferred into writing. It is written in comfortable and easy language as if speaking to someone you want to empathize with. Just as we do not plan the introduction, development, and conclusion when talking with friends, healing writing does not premeditate the structure or development of the writing. It does not matter if it does not make sense or is chaotic.

Page 18, from Starting the Book

Hatred is an extremely negative emotion that is a displacement of the primal or essential fear within me onto others. As mentioned above, the perspective toward oneself extends to the external world. Therefore, how you view and treat yourself is truly important.

Page 59, from Practicing Self-Compassion

People who experience extreme pain lose their words. No, it feels as if they have been taken away. Even though no one has driven them out of the world, they become like someone expelled from the world, like a person cast out from their own life. Therefore, those in the midst of extreme pain suffer another pain of losing control over themselves due to the experience of losing language.

Page 114, from Using Trials as Fuel

You Did Your Best Then | Written by Han Kyung-eun | Suo Seojae | 288 pages | 16,000 KRW

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