Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, RN 💛🐝🏳️‍🌈

PhD, MDiv, RN - Listening = Love. Online courses coming soon! Author of The Foundations of Compassion Centered C.A.R.E. ™️

[Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, RN 💛🐝🏳️‍🌈 @BarnesNeff]

From the wonderful bell hooks

[Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, RN 💛🐝🏳️‍🌈 @BarnesNeff]

@laurel_prolife @sheilagregoire And there it is - your emotional reaction is that she's pathetic. Finally found the bottom line. I'm sure you feel the same way about the complex emotions and reactions to other victims of sexual assault and abuse

[Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, RN 💛🐝🏳️‍🌈 @BarnesNeff]

@laurel_prolife @sheilagregoire I'm not the only one with this understanding. Why you want David to be innocent and Bathsheba guilty? Scripture calls her a lamb. You've got lots of resources in this thread and more. The word "rape" is not in the KJV, all those other translations must be twisting scripture, too

[Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, RN 💛🐝🏳️‍🌈 @BarnesNeff]

@laurel_prolife @sheilagregoire Oopsie... The word Bible isn't in the, you know, Bible, along with many, many more that I'll bet you've been using all your life. Reading the Bible is more than a rote exercise. If you don't have any feelings about it, or empathy, or connection to it, what's the point?

[Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, RN 💛🐝🏳️‍🌈 @BarnesNeff]

@laurel_prolife @sheilagregoire You need to pick up your Bible and read it again. Not to mention, put yourself in her place - seriously

[Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, RN 💛🐝🏳️‍🌈 @BarnesNeff]

@laurel_prolife @sheilagregoire Nonconsentual sex = rape in any time, language, or place. Full stop

[Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, RN 💛🐝🏳️‍🌈 @BarnesNeff]

@Patricia_Ann_E lol... And the constant adjustments and fussing over them. My bossoms are much better behaved than theirs 🎈🎈

[Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, RN 💛🐝🏳️‍🌈 @BarnesNeff]

@Patricia_Ann_E I shared this with my bff, who has read them, and he laughed and agreed that common descriptions included "ample" and even "profound" 😂

[Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, RN 💛🐝🏳️‍🌈 @BarnesNeff]

@DariusAGreen I think it's partly a lack of empathy. Like when you share your happiness, and people come for you because not everyone can afford, has the luxury, is traumatized, etc, etc - we can have empathy for the good as well as the bad

[Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, RN 💛🐝🏳️‍🌈 @BarnesNeff]

@YanyunH Poor baby! Hope he's better soon 😻

[Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, RN 💛🐝🏳️‍🌈 @BarnesNeff]

This has become a common deflection in the face of suffering. Healthcare is broken? Don't bother w/ self-care or compassion til it's fixed - it's been broken for decades. People hungry a/ hurricane? It's climate change & poor infrastructure. Be like the @WCKitchen and feed people

[Matthew Gertz @MattGertz]

I can't tell if this is happening more frequently or if I'm just noticing it more often, but I don't love the argument strategy where people criticize a policy initiative aimed at a specific problem because it wouldn't solve a broader, more complex social ill.

[Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, RN 💛🐝🏳️‍🌈 @BarnesNeff]

To me, it also means to be aware of injustice - not passively, but keeping my eyes open, seeking ways to learn, and listening to what the people affected have to say

[Touré @Toure]

Woke is essentially saying be respectful to people who aren't like you. Don't be transphobic, don't be ableist, don't be racist in your deeds or your language. Make space for marginalized people. Be aware of the needs of others even if you don't understand their journey.

[Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, RN 💛🐝🏳️‍🌈 @BarnesNeff]

@_legless_wonder I saw the video, and I was outraged - I'm so glad to see that you're ok. It's such a degrading thing to do to someone. I know the sting of this. Be gentle with yourself

[Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, RN 💛🐝🏳️‍🌈 @BarnesNeff]

@mario_sofer @CampbellGrantMD @CaseySeidemanMD @UrologyTLVMC @KarinLifshitz @Uroweb Impertinent

[Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, RN 💛🐝🏳️‍🌈 @BarnesNeff]

@iryelin @ask_aubry Holy moley - we're nothing but a series of tubes within tubes, so technically, everything could be considered "outside," but to what purpose?

[Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, RN 💛🐝🏳️‍🌈 @BarnesNeff]

@QondiNtini Awww... So pure

[Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, RN 💛🐝🏳️‍🌈 @BarnesNeff]

@iryelin @ask_aubry What's he trying to get at - it's baffling to me

[Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, RN 💛🐝🏳️‍🌈 @BarnesNeff]

@GrahamGPorter @ask_aubry By his logic, everything is "outside"

[Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, RN 💛🐝🏳️‍🌈 @BarnesNeff]

@courtb7272 @ask_aubry Take plenty of time to rest, and I hope you have someone to pamper you

[Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, RN 💛🐝🏳️‍🌈 @BarnesNeff]

@Jef_MedEd @ask_aubry We are nothing but a series of tubes within tubes, this thread puts even our blood "outside," because our blood vessels are semi-permiable membranes. All life depends on connection w/ the outside. This distinction has no practical application, and the OP is an idiot

[Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, RN 💛🐝🏳️‍🌈 @BarnesNeff]

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