“no” is also an action
let it be your own approval
of disapproval
wear it around your neck
as you lift your chin to turn away
even if your skin feels different
even if “yes” tries to follow
up the back of your throat”
good grief, brianna pastor #poetry #sadness #healing #PTSD #creativity #growth #psychology
Distilling insights from decades worth of essays for Harvard Business Review. This collection shows you how to bounce back from setbacks, how to be resilient. Aside from some cringey moments it’s worth a read. #HBR #Business #Books #Review #Career #Psychology
Clinical #Psychologist Dr Julie Smith’s #book ‘Open When’ is a practical, warm and personable set of tools to cope with life’s conundrums #mentalhealth #selfhelp #nonfiction
#Vegan almond butter date latte #recipe, things you can control, gigantic ancient #sloths, a quote from #Thoreau, walking with #dinosaurs #art by Kristen Eisenbraun and much more #ContentCatnip #InterestingThings
“Real maturity is observing your own
inner turbulence and pausing before
you project how you feel onto
what is happening around you” #YungPueblo #poetry #quote #selflove #hope
Macabre and unsettling furry #puppets, the #psychology of #colour in popular #films, British seaside simulator app, neon #art by AK #Berlin that are a blast from the 80’s, eerie and strange portals and much more. #InterestingThings #ContentCatnip
“it is easier to let go
of someone’s opinion of you
when you understand
that others see you through
a combination of their past conditioning
and their current emotional state
without realizing it,
they see themselves first,
and through that lens they get
an unclear picture of you”
A landmark book by medical doctor Russell Kennedy explores how#alarm in the body impacts the mind. By calming the body and addressing this bodily ‘alarm’, we can heal ourselves. #healing #psychology #mentalhealth #anxiety #selfhelp #mind #body #spirit #book #review #books
Be small. Be nothing. Stop stirring. Be as small as a petal on a daisy, humming bird tiny. Be nothing as space is nothing, as air is nothing. Stop striving and fall back into the arms of the universe. This is how I have learned to rest. My head is the lap of infinity. OrdinaryContinue reading “Comforting Thought: My head is the lap of infinity”
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings takes its cue from #medieval bestiaries. Author Caspar Henderson sets out to write a modern compendium of beasts, and show, in the process, that truth is a lot weirder than fiction #animals #nature #philosophy #books
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