Stella

[Stella @Phelz601]

@Smongana You’re so beautiful, everything nje includes your frames😍

[Stella @Phelz601]

@HermanMashaba Happy Anniversary 🥳🥳.

[Stella @Phelz601]

@gunsnrosesgirl3 Very tasty 😋 😁

[Robin Adams 🇿🇦 @RobinAdamsZA]

Dafuq????!!!!!!!
😮😲😲😲😳😳😳

[Stella @Phelz601]

@OurFavOnlineDoc Love the thread. What did the lion do to you though? ‘blonde wig’ 😂😂

[Stella @Phelz601]

It’s happening in South Africa

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Forward this video to friends & family to understand just how evil the government has been

[Stella @Phelz601]

True

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Mending a crack in the road
https://t.co/KVFnt8poPy

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Next level driver!

[Global Folder @Global_Folder]

Angolan 🇦🇴 artist paints himself painting himself. So much talent.

[Real Talk Kim @RealTalkKim]

A SNAKE
can shed its skin,
but it will always be a snake.
Remember that before allowing people back into your space. 💪🏼

[Dr. Thema @drthema]

A wise person doesn’t seek validation from playing the game.

A wise person recognizes when others are trying to make them the game and refuses to be played.

[Stella @Phelz601]

Facts

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

THIS IS GOING VIRAL SO I WANTED TO SHARE IT HERE TOO:

A bit from my past:

My first job after getting my PhD was working as a therapist for people from low socioeconomic backgrounds.

Almost all of them were diagnosed with depression, GAD, bipolar, or BPD. Most were highly medicated— some to a point that still sticks with me years later.

As I got to know their background and lives 3 things were very clear:

1. A vast majority had been emotionally neglected, emotionally abused, or physically abused as children.

2. A vast majority had experienced domestic violence or were currently living in it.

3. Basic needs were never met. Life was an hour by hour struggle. Treatment was an attempt to allow them to get to work in most cases. To just continue to surviving.

It was the start of me questioning the field I had been trained in. One that diagnoses people with disorders without taking a look at the whole picture. It began my path of holistic understanding.

A person cannot be well when one unexpected bill will have them fall behind on rent. When they lay their head on a pillow and all they can think about is expenses piling up. When a bill at the grocery store is almost double what they paid last year when their income has stayed the same.

An entire family unit deeply struggles within survival mode. When a job is lost. When daycare needs to be paid, but so does the light bill— what do you choose? When parents can’t even think about the emotional needs of their children because they have to figure out where their next meal is going to come from.

In 1942, 10 years before the diagnostic manual of mental illness was released Maslow knew what was once just common sense: we have a hierarchy of needs.

At the bottom are basic needs food and shelter. Then safety (resources, security). Then belonging (connection, friendship, intimacy.) Without three things we *will* be sick, period.

I get pushback for questioning the status quo. And I’ll continue to do it. The status quo is keeping people sick. It denies their experience. And it says we should bandage people’s symptoms so they can return to the environment that made them sick.

May we wake up, heal ourselves, and build conscious communities to help each other.

Retweet if you feel this is true in your body 🙏

[Stella @Phelz601]

Always

[Real Talk Kim @RealTalkKim]

Trust your gut, you know you not crazy!

[Stella @Phelz601]

True

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Everyone is emotionally unavailable at times. Don’t expect a single person to always be capable of supporting you emotionally. Different people can meet different needs and can be there for you when others can’t.

[Stella @Phelz601]

Truth

[T.D. Jakes @BishopJakes]

Here’s a peek at my “Disruptive Conversations” with @CThaGod last night.

[Stella @Phelz601]

@mbalimcdust Sad

[Stella @Phelz601]

@ewnreporter I’ve been following his fighting journey and rooting for him in my little corner. May his soul RIP.

[Stella @Phelz601]

@CliffShiko Thank you for this. Rest In Peace Mark.