the beautiful balance between being a safe open space when they need to be heard and giving people the space to navigate their own journey so they can learn their own lessons.
Surround yourself with people that make you feel like it's good to be yourself. The people we choose to surround ourselves with will eventually shape the way we think, behave, and feel on a daily basis. Surround yourself with people who feed your soul, not eat it.
holding yourself accountable is how you move mountains within your growth, it’s how you find ways to breathe underwater, it’s how you validate your truth with tough love, it’s how you learn to turn your rough edges into softness.
a lot of pain you carry are wounds that belong to your inner child, concerns that your younger self was unable to articulate and heaviness that older versions of you struggled to release; sometimes what you were will continue to stay in your shadow until you finally confront it.
teaching is political. it’s human work done with/in the hearts and minds of young people informed by our hearts and minds as humans who teach. there’s often no neutrality. even we avoid certain topics we communicate to students where we stand. Silence is a position, too. 1/2
The biggest lie you will ever tell yourself?
"I don't need to write that down, I will remember it"
You will not remember it, write it down. You will thank yourself later.
When PhD students tell me that they'll work on a task for me while on the airplane, I say: “Nooo, don’t it after. Don't be miserable trying to work there.” Let start telling students to not work while en route somewhere!
Y'all still doing qualitative research and writing "generalizability" as the limitation of your study. I hate that for y'all because who told you specificity and complexity were "limitations"? What are the "possibilities" for your work? Start there.
Highlighting another piece from our reading list! From “crib to coffin”: Navigating coping from racism-related stress throughout the lifespan of Black Americans by @SCTJones@rianaelyse and colleagues #psyc258 https://t.co/t3IinAM8uV