Shenanigga 🎷

I am.
Stubbornly becoming.

[Shenanigga 🎷 @itheroyalt]

Mia Mottley with the Prime Minister of Barbados*

[maja 🔭🍒 @majamediaco]

don’t forget to use your teeth

[yimika. @yimikaaaa]

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it’s called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don’t care, but because you care too much.

[hai needs a lawyer @streetdogdoll2]

this, like genuinely

[unonumero56 @unonumero_56]

This might be the best post I’ve seen explaining why these Gear 5 “critiques” seem so stupid 😭

[𝘬𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘺 𑣲ᢉ𐭩 @ohagiwife]

HOT TAKE: refusing to acknowledge someone’s growth is unfair. if someone has taken accountability & has shown their change over time, continuing to define them exclusively by their past is not even “holding them accountable” anymore, you just want to personally harm them.

[karo @venusdazed]

i’m big on random corny reassurance texts because we all have so much emotional turmoil and most of it is just noise we convince ourselves of

[????? @_IAmGOAT]

My therapist said: Legitimately self-compassion is the biggest mental health life hack of all time. I'm NOT talking about self-esteem. You do NOT have to like yourself one bit. You don't have to believe that you're a good person who deserves good things. You just have to

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

I was today years old when I learned like the psychological and neuroplasticity benefits of sitting by a fire and staring at it. Every single thing you see is completely random. There's no predictive element to it. So it forces your brain to accept the reality that it has no idea what is coming next and puts you in a highly narrow, responsive state so that you can have more open conversations, be a little bit more susceptible to new ideas, which is so why so many powerful friend to friend conversations happen around a campfire.

[Chris Lakin @chrislakin]

the difference between unburnout and burnout

[𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖇𝖆𝖟𝖎𝖙𝖊 @raisinchoirgirl]

lack of nourishment from others has taught me quite a bit about how to instead nourish myself

[zellie @zellieimani]

James Baldwin

[Blaxx🦇 @biggblaxxx]

The guilt of being the son who loves his family but breathes easier when he's far away and alone.