"My goal as a parent has always been to raise a child who understands her own feelings as much as the feelings of other people. I suspected that I was coming up short of that goal."
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"...when life comes at me hard, I still sink into scrolling YouTube shorts for hours. The difference is that each time I pick up these tools and use them, I get a little better at getting back on my feet."
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“Life is wasted when we make it more terrifying, precisely because it is so easy to do so... Creating enchantment is an effective means of counteracting this depressing, banal habit."
Superb short read: https://t.co/BqJFLR00Hn
Oxytocin (a "connection" hormone) helps keep the Dorsal Vagus (a nerve that helps moderate things like our heart rate) helps our system get ready for action without spinning off into fight/flight. This means that fun and play requires a sense of connection.
From Ann Weiser Cornell--Our inner critic often gets in our way because it is worried about something. Much in the way a patent tries to stop a toddler about to trip.
"Perhaps it’s the uncanny experience of witnessing our own thoughts and feelings as an outside observer. It’s kind of like looking up at a mirror. There’s a brief surprise: That’s me; there I am!"
@TheSchoolOfLife Film "The Lobster," starring Collin Farrell, satirizes our society, where being single is "outlawed" and punished. There is also an internal obstacle to being comfortable with being alone--our need to be cherished. That need can be difficult to fulfil without some deep work.
"How tempting is it to read about our problems or lecture ourselves about them rather than allow and befriend hard feelings like terror and despair?"
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