Brianne

I'm just making it up as I go along. University of Iowa Alumna💛🖤

[Brianne @brazen_bae]

@BrittneyAvery Ngl this low-key made me emotional!

[Brianne @brazen_bae]

@BrittneyAvery He kinda ate that low key 😂

[Brianne @brazen_bae]

@BrittneyAvery The amount of puns she came up with 👏🏽 lol

[Brianne @brazen_bae]

@BrittneyAvery She looked so uncomfortable lol. Her body was leaned and turned away from him

[Brianne @brazen_bae]

My nail tech literally made me an iced matcha latte after my appointment today, I love her 😭

[Zareen. @b_zareen]

For as long as I live I will never forget that we have created a world where children have to hold a press conference saying they want to live.

[5hahem @shaTIRED]

just want to remind y’all that it’s an eclipse tonight, be fucking safe

[Brianne @brazen_bae]

The difference between weary and leery be kicking y'all's ass lmao

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

3. Learn to speak your needs and ask for help: this takes a lot of work and self compassion. Begin communicating your needs, even when it's scary. Also practice asking for help. As an adult, you can ask for and be supported by others.

[Brianne @brazen_bae]

Disappointed but not surprised 😔

[Brianne @brazen_bae]

Like I'm a firm believer that you should dress for the job you want and not the job you have

[Brianne @brazen_bae]

I know I'm supposed to be a cool millennial boss, but why would you come for a job interview at an office job in jeans.....?

[Torraine Walker @TorraineWalker]

Catch me at 4PM EST speaking with @therealdana7 about the recent research study showing that Black fathers are the most involved in their children's lives. ✊🏿👶🏿💯
https://t.co/h5vZbG3Ccb

[Brianne @brazen_bae]

I'm only on the first episode of The Ultimatum season 2 and I already know all these couples need to break up

[The White House 46 Archived @WhiteHouse46]

For the lives we’ve lost and the lives we can save, it is time for Congress to ban assault weapons.

[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 🙏

[Brianne @brazen_bae]

They need to put this man in a home ffs. It's insane to me that people can be running a country at this age.

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Mitch McConnell freezes again while talking to reporters in in Covington, Kentucky.

[Brianne @brazen_bae]

Man I'm just so mf tired 😭 can't wait for my PTO in a few weeks, I'm ready to go off-grid for a while