Love isn’t blind.
Our idea of love is imprinted in our mind at bodies beginning at birth. We’re wired to seek people, situations, and dynamics that are most familiar to our childhood environment.
Love is a re-enactment.
I told someone recently that this is my favorite movie and they’d never seen it. We have so much educating to do gang. I’m worried about us as a country
5. Learn how to self regulate: self regulation is the process of learning to witness your emotions rather than react to them. It creates confidence and resilience.
Don’t give a hard time to parents who bring their loud toddlers to the library. Public libraries are community spaces. Outside of designated quiet areas, they are not quiet environments. Learn to share public spaces with kids for the sake of raising a literate next generation.
i think it would be really funny to Meet Taylor Swift but, not mention any albums or music and instead thank her for her work in the 2012 animated film, THE LORAX
"Good girl" conditioning has us believing our role is: to get other people to like or approve of us in social settings, to not "rock the boat", and to betray our own needs in order to appear selfless.
HERE'S HOW TO UNLEARN IT:
I have made it my mission to unteach children that “fiction is fake.”
Here are my new definitions I started teaching today:
▪️Nonfiction = learning through information
▫️Fiction = learning through imagination
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i remember as a kid being like “Wow as an adult i’ll be able to buy as much candy as i want whenever i want” which turned out to be completely true and as amazing as i imagined
Our nervous system doesn’t discriminate between our trauma and someone else’s.
It doesn’t say “I will only mildly dysregulate you, because someone else “had it worse.”
Thought it’s helpful to have perspective in life, minimizing our trauma isn’t helpful, AND, it’s not fair.
I think often about how many people I make unfair snap judgments about who I would love and respect if I just spent some time getting to know them.
My mom told me recently “there are few people you wouldn’t like once you heard their entire story.” I really believe that’s true.