Nadina

A plurality of voices.

[Nadina @nadinasky]

@SchrodingrsBrat I think it might have to do with attribution theory. If we like them, they can do no wrong. If they do, it’s attributed to some external force they had no control over. The less we like them, the more we attribute their actions to their internal locus of control —their character.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Think about this: When you avoid discomfort, you’re taking on a debt. You get the short-term benefit of the discomfort avoided, but the long-term burden of the repayment (with interest). Applies to hard conversations, procrastination, skipping workouts. Choose your debts wisely.

[nikita huno @NikHuno]

Coaching isn’t dead. It’s just overrun with people who skipped the healing and jumped to monetizing. Guides are rising now. People who’ve earned their wisdom. Not with a certificate. With pain. We’re not here to hack growth. We’re here to hold depth.

[Nadina @nadinasky]

Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness.

[Nadina @nadinasky]

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[American Psychiatric Association @APApsychiatric]

May is Mental Health Awareness Month! You can show your support by wearing Lime Green all month long!

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#MentalHealthAwareness

[American Psychiatric Association @APApsychiatric]

May is Mental Health Awareness Month! You can show your support by wearing Lime Green all month long!

Share this post and leave a "💚" in the comments!

#MentalHealthAwareness

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff!

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

The world has lost a true giant today. Harry Belafonte was a barrier breaker who helped reshape our world through his civil rights advocacy, his music, and his acting. May he rest in peace.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

What is your brain doing when you are doing absolutely nothing?

A neuroscientist wanted an answer to that question.

So she conducted the first brain-imaging study of brain activity when the brain is in a "resting state"—free of inputs/free to wander.

The results are interesting...

The neuroscientist Dr. Nancy Andreasen used a positron emission tomography (PET) scan to study brain activity when the brain is at "wakeful rest"

When you are doing absolutely nothing:

"We found activations in multiple regions of the association cortex," Dr. Andreasen wrote. "We were not [seeing] a passive silent brain during the ‘resting state,’ but rather a brain that was actively connecting thoughts and experiences.”

Essentially, Dr. Andreasen demonstrated that the brain defaults to creativity.

When you are doing absolutely nothing, the brain engages in what the researchers termed "random episodic silent thought" or REST.

And during REST, the brain "uses its most human & complex parts."

Takeaway 1: Doing nothing promotes creativity.

Raymond Chandler, Neil Gaiman, Dr. Suess, George Lucas, and many other writers all have/had a similar habit.

They gave themselves two options:

a) You don’t have to write.
b) You can’t do anything else.

@neilhimself explains:

"I go down to my lovely little gazebo at the bottom of the garden, sit down, and I’m absolutely allowed not to do anything...I'm not allowed to do a crossword, read a book, phone a friend...all I’m allowed to do is absolutely nothing, or write. But writing is actually more interesting than doing nothing after a while."

Takeaway 2: REST

Resting, Dr. Andreasen wrote, “allows the association cortices of the brain to converse in a free & uncensored manner.”

This is why ideas come to us in the shower, on walks, and when daydreaming.

A favorite example of this: @Lin_Manuel had the idea for “Hamilton” on vacation:

"I was on a pool float with a margarita in my hand and had a moment when my brain could unplug. [It was his first vacation in 7 years]. The moment my brain got a moment's rest, the best idea I've ever had in my life walked into it."

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“If a plant only gets sunlight, it’s very harmful. It needs darkness too…In the darkness, it converts oxygen into carbon dioxide. We are like that too. We need periods of doing & periods of non-doing.” — Robert Pirsig

Follow me @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

[Dr Evgeny Legedin 🇷🇺 @DrEvgenyLegedin]

Psychiatrists find reading this book to be therapeutic in the way exposure to reality can sometimes be. Joel Paris describes honestly the limitations of our knowledge. There is nothing scarier than arrogance and ignorance combined - he suffers from neither.

[Nadina @nadinasky]

@autisticpuffin “Help build their resistance?” “Help get them better?” Whoever wrote this, and approved it, are completely disconnected to what the concept of “help” and “support” involve. They have no business being in the business of mental health. None whatsoever.

[Hannah Fry @FryRsquared]

Every single person who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying.

[Nadina @nadinasky]

Love is never out of fashion. #love #instyle #canva @canva #CanvaDesignChallenge @nadinasky #HeartsDay #everyday ♥️

[Nadina @nadinasky]

L.O.V.E. #love #loveis #loveislove #HeartsDay #ValentinesDay2023 #canva #canvadesignchallenge @canva #designedwithlove
💜💚♥️💛💙

[Nadina @nadinasky]

This! And the reality is, in my two decades of therapy with different therapists, only ONE has acknowledged my race, ethnic background, and culture —and how these have shaped my sense of identity. #Race #Ethnicity #culture #contextmatters

[all power to the people @realdocv]

Racism has real impact on your clients so you can’t treat them without acknowledging their race

#TherapistTwitter

[Nadina @nadinasky]

@rwillowfish I love this so much! The biggest thing for me was realizing how to honor what I needed in the way I needed it. I often abandoned myself and my process because I was still learning the lesson of self-advocacy. But once I started to honor my needs authentically, my life changed. 💜

[Nadina @nadinasky]

@lifeinunreality Amen!

[Nadina @nadinasky]

@lifeinunreality I hear you and see you! And I completely get it! I don’t know it ever fades, but I do know we’re not alone on this journey. 💚

[Nadina @nadinasky]

@lifeinunreality Tell them they should not “should” on you! 💜

[Avery Tomasco @averytomascowx]

85,000 Austin Energy customers without power. That's up from... *checks notes* ...zero outages at midnight.

Unbelievable, and more than double the number of outages that occurred during the worst of the Feb '21 ice storms (before the blackouts) #atxwx #txwx