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[Thendo Ralph @ThendoRalph]

Never tell the other parent. TELL THE SCHOOL TEACHER OR COUNSELOR!!!

[Nina S. Murphy 🌻 @ninaslostnfound]

"How do you get through? Sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt. It's not about that solution. It is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances."

- Toni Morrison, Interview with J. Williams

🖌️ Antonín Slavíček, In Veltrusy Park (1896; oil on canvas)

[News to Remember @allchronology]

Not even Black Mirror could predict this level of dystopia.

A man found out his job interviewer was AI, so he let his own AI take over and walked away, leaving both AIs stuck in an endless goodbye loop.

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

Look closer.

This is what “change” looks like inside your brain:

1. Stop rehearsing disaster.

[sav @reverendtollerr]

whenever discussions about suicide come up i always return to this video. it’s the most poignant and empathetic thing i have ever heard someone say on the matter.

[Niels Hoven 🐮 @NielsHoven]

I strongly agree with this. Many people end up scared of emotions (and scared of their kids' emotions) because they've internalized that feelings are like weather: beyond our control, something we just have to endure

One of the most powerful things you can do as a parent is to reject that frame.

Emotions are fleeting and easily changed.

With older kids, emotional validation is often a silver bullet.

With young kids, it's even easier. (This old video of my son makes my laugh every time.)

[Lori Gottlieb @LoriGottlieb1]

If we can change our stories, we can change our lives. Is there another way to tell your story?

Watch my TED talk “How changing your story can change your life”: https://t.co/1h5vDn63AL

[Nornal Guy 🧙‍♂️ @theralkia]

The ego will manipulate your fears and external conditions to create the exact circumstances it needs to confirm the fears.

Paradoxically, this is how the ego feels safe.

The fear is confirmed as real, thus validating the wounded part, thus cementing it and preventing change, which would mean ego death.

The ego would rather have you continue suffering than risk its own dissolution.

And you can’t force it to stop, or manipulate it into changing. You have to seduce it by opening your heart to it, seeing it, and allowing every manifestation of it.

Buddha was just an inner Casanova.

[Heidi Priebe 🌆🍁 @HeidiPriebe1]

One of my all-time favorites. (From C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves)

[Dr. Linda Berman @LindaBerman4]

Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human.

Rollo May

[alexei @alexeixbt]

life becomes effortless once you understand neuroplasticity.

[badger @badger69420]

When you finally realize you’re living in a simulation

[Deven @devenbhooshan]

My relationship advice to everybody:

Find a partner in life that admires such small gestures from you much more than the grand ones.

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

Bro Caught God Live on Camera

[Heidi Priebe 🌆🍁 @HeidiPriebe1]

Staying connected to longing & yearning during the periods where the universe is not yet granting you fulfillment is a grand romantic gesture. Keep making it. Fight to get your chance back.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

I will return to this paragraph by C. S. Lewis at least once a week until the day I die

[Mariana Levy @marianevy]

Me sorprende la actualidad de todo lo que dice. Tuve que ir a googlear cuando se había suicidado y la respuesta es 2008.

[Neil @Maharavati]

Her crying seeing her parents got me bawling omfgggg

[Béa Gonzalez (sophiacycles) @SophiaCycles]

"Memory is a form of fiction, and we can’t help that. So we are very much the creation of the stories we tell ourselves. And we don’t know we’re telling stories."~James Hillman, We've Had One Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World is Getting Worse

[Lori Gottlieb @LoriGottlieb1]

But sometimes regret is information. It shows us where our actions didn’t align with who we want to be.

If the question is, “How do I stop feeling bad about what happened?”

The answer lies in this: *What is this regret asking me to do differently now?*