Summary of Gabrielle Hartley & Elena Brower's Better Apart

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#1 You can choose to be generous, gracious, and aware of the consequences of your actions. Regardless of what others are doing, you can choose to be patient, respectful, and clear. Your communications may become more thoughtful and functional, and you’ll find that you’re better apart.

#2 The five steps to being better apart are simple, precise initiatives that require practices, writing exercises, and new attitudes. Even when you feel hopelessly stuck, with each step you’ll find yourself experiencing the dignity of designing your stance and state of being.

#3 Patience is the ability to wait and be patient. It is the opposite of impatience, which is the inability to wait and the inability to control your emotions. Patience gives you strength to live in the present moment with mindful awareness.

#4 When you choose to see this moment as a rejection or a failure, you’ll continue to experience it repeatedly throughout your process. When you choose to see this moment as an opportunity to see through the lens of respect, respect will consistently reveal its gifts to you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822526174

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Insights on Gabrielle Hartley & Elena Brower's Better Apart

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

You can choose to be generous, gracious, and aware of the consequences of your actions. Regardless of what others are doing, you can choose to be patient, respectful, and clear. Your communications may become more thoughtful and functional, and you’ll find that you’re better apart.

#2

The five steps to being better apart are simple, precise initiatives that require practices, writing exercises, and new attitudes. Even when you feel hopelessly stuck, with each step you’ll find yourself experiencing the dignity of designing your stance and state of being.

#3

Patience is the ability to wait and be patient. It is the opposite of impatience, which is the inability to wait and the inability to control your emotions. Patience gives you strength to live in the present moment with mindful awareness.

#4

When you choose to see this moment as a rejection or a failure, you’ll continue to experience it repeatedly throughout your process. When you choose to see this moment as an opportunity to see through the lens of respect, respect will consistently reveal its gifts to you.

#5

Clarity is your capacity to receive and respond with lucidity, taking nothing personally. When negotiating topics of gravity, such as your family's parenting plan, domiciles, and division of property, being clear about your priorities is vital.

#6

Within each of the chapters on the five steps, you’ll learn both practical spiritual wisdom and legal wisdom. You’ll be introduced to each element through a mantra, or affirmation, to help you design your emotional state.

#7

The practice of using a chosen mantra in meditation involves the repetition of a powerful word or phrase that yields the radiance and meaning of that concept until you experience a beneficial change in your state. You'll practice writing and repeating your mantra upon waking and