Latest posts tagged with #YESquote on Bluesky
"We want to #gohome. We want to find our #purpose, our right place, the right people to live & work w/, the right #work to do....We want to find our #spiritualroots. We want to learn to fly." ~ #MelodyBeattie/ Finding Your Way Home
#YESquote #souljourney #recovery #innerpeace
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“It’s not only “my work”…I bequeath to my survivors but all the mental & sensual pleasures that come with being a living human….I am content, in the time that remains, to be a transient cell in the larger human super-being.” #BarbaraEhrenreich #NaturalCauses #YESquote #ThrivingMortal bit.ly/45Cz68p
#YESquote: Building a Life Worth Living/Marsha Linehan- "We should #strive for important #goals, but we must #radicallyaccept that we might not obtain them. It is letting go of having to have. And accepting what is.” #DBT #DistressTolerance #EmotionRegulation #MentalWellness bit.ly/41AZePx
#YESquote: Hood Wellness/ Tamela Gordon - "There is no crystal strong enough to transmute the fluidity of #racism ...For those of us who exist w/in #marginalized #intersections, #wellness can never be in pursuit despite our identit[y] [but] must always prioritize it." #WellnessForAll bit.ly/4lZNZby
#YESquote: #Workplace #NeuroDiversity Rising/ Lyric Rivera: “NeuroDvergnt ppl cannot thrive in workplcs that treat them like machines & not ppl. Even #NeuroTypical ppl who may fare better longer will eventually become miserable & therefore less #productve in #exploitative envirnmts.” bit.ly/4odTNzH
#YESquote: The Collected #Schizophrenias/ Esmé Weijun Wang - "No one ever says that a person is cancer, or that they have become cancer, but they do say that a person is #manic-depressive or #schizophrenic, once those #illnesses have taken hold.” #PersonFirst #LanguageMatters bit.ly/45cmDbd
#YESquote: An Uncomplicated Life/Paul Daugherty - "We can't #thrive alone. Fulfillment needs partners...[Jillian's story] demonstrates we were each put here to benefit the other...we're only as good as the way we treat each other." #DownsSyndrome #Neurodiverse #Belonging #Connection bit.ly/4l0yOxr
#YESquote: Count Us In/Jason Kingsley - "You're an individual, an adult w/ #disability, who can...tackle any issue...B/c we are ppl who understand, knowing about our disability.
Ppl can change...realize you are an individual & #identity is important to you." #DownSyndrome #Inclusion bit.ly/3GZIuug
#YESquote: World as Lover, World as Self/ #JoannaMacy - "When we feel #isolated, we stifle that #sorrow & #rage to fit in better & avoid aggravating the #loneliness. Experiencing the #sacred as #immanent helps ppl to befriend their #pain for the world & not fear it will isolate them. bit.ly/4kVsQhF
#YESquote: Better Late than Never: Understand, Survive & Thrive #MidlifeADHD Dx-Emma Mahony/Sari Solden - "ADHD is a #neurodevelopmental disorder, not a #behavioral one. This rules out the theory that it is due to poor parenting, too much TV, junk food, & other myths." #Neurodiversity bit.ly/450dT7I
#YESquote: Turn My Mourning Into Dancing/Henri Nouwen - "Healing begins w/ our taking our #pain out of its diabolic #isolation & seeing...we suffer it in #communion w/ all of humanity, & yes, all of creation...[participating] in the great battle agst the #powersofdarkness." #GriefWork bit.ly/3Upu0qA
#YESquote: #OffTheSpectrum: Why the Science of #Autism Has Failed #Women & Girls/Gina Rippon - "...how hard it had been to get a dx of autism for thmslves or their daughters...was not to do w/ long waitng lists...[but] getting past...'autism is a boy thing'..when they asked for help." bit.ly/4l79AxP
#YESquote: 9 Minds:Inner Lives on the #Spectrum/David Tammet - "Research has shown " #disabled" ppl can be lonelier than "non-disabled," #autistic ppl particularly. Autistic ppl...are "disabled" when others...do not undrstnd their diffrntly wired minds nor accommodate for their needs. bit.ly/4eYidJv
#YESquote: A Little Book on the Human #Shadow / #RobertBly - “Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.” #ShadowWork #MentalHealth #TraumaHealing #InnerWork
We exile what we fear...and it returns with teeth.
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#YESquote: Autistic & Black/Kala Omeiza - " #Autism Dx rates are lower for #Black ppl.... b/c most healthcare systems...overlook symptoms [outside] the std clin./resrch norm... #Westernwhitemales." This [excludes] Black ppl fr svcs that cd support them as early as infancy. #racialbias bit.ly/3GXpdcO
#YESquote: The Secret Language of the Body /Jennifer Mann - "Safety in the body is the foundation of any positive experience and emotion. Without safety there is no joy. Without safety there is no confidence. Without safety there is no calm." #BodilyAutonomy #TraumaHealing #Somatics bit.ly/44Jt1WY
#YESquote: #Burnout: Secret to Unlocking the #StressCycle/ Emily Nagoski - "To be 'well' is not to live in a state of perpetual #safety & #calm, but to move fluidly from a state of #adversity, risk, adventure, or #excitement, back to safety & calm, & out again." #EmotionalResilience bit.ly/44vuaTl
#YESquote: The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining #ChronicIllness /Meghan O'Rourke-"The #immunedysregulated body [embodies] our porousness to one another & [the effect of] prsnl interactions, regulation of food & chemicals, absence of univ. healthcare,...racism, poverty, #trauma & more." bit.ly/3Is2B4J
#YESquote: Crooked:Outwitting the Back Pain Industry/ Cathryn J. Ramin - "New science in ' #inactivityphysiology' ...suggests that #chronicbackpain, costly & pernicious as it is, barely ranks as a problem compared w/ other disorders attributed to #sedentary lifestyles." #InvisiblePain bit.ly/4ePabTc
#YESquote: The Body Is Not an Apology/ Sonya Renee Taylor - “The voice of doubt, #shame, & #guilt blaring in our heads is..a voice we have been given by a society steeped in shame...the “outside voice.“ Our authentic voice, our “inside voice,” is the voice of #radicalself-love!” #Heal bit.ly/4liIzIt
#YESquote: Golem Girl: A Memoir / Riva Lehrer - "Sometimes the monster is the one who saves us. It takes a monster to face down the dark.” Painting: Susan Nussbaum by Riva Lehrer. #ArtHeals #InnerStrength #DisabilityCulture #Resilience #MentalHealthMatters #StrongerTogether #Community bit.ly/46C5sSw
#YESquote: The #Unshaming Way/David Bedrick - "Shame ...does more than hurt: it leads you to be disloyal to yr basic nature, to turn against yrself. It's self-attack...w/o unshaming, you can't ever get away from the ongoing damage. #Shame ...annihilates. Unshaming is...self-discovery. bit.ly/44F3M8n
#YESquote: #CripKinship /Shayda Kafai- "Crip life invites us into fierce #creativity. B/c the world continues to treat us as wrthless, creatng new worlds [&] dreaming is a matter of survival. This is part of the power of #SinsInvalid: we dream new #crip worlds 2gether. bit.ly/4eFUv4D RIP #PattyBerne
#YESquote: Sami Schalk / #BlackDisabilityPolitics "...are often performed in #solidarity w/ disabled ppl... but... do not necess. center trad. #disabilityrights language & approaches...instead, they prioritize understanding of #disability w/in the context of #whitesupremacy." #Justice bit.ly/44xE05N
#YESquote: #DisabilityPride / Ben Mattlin - "How you #defineyourself in a world full of judgmts & #challenges can be vitally impt. But yr #outcome depends, too, on yr circumstances, yr #resources. Can you afford [& have #access to] the #supports you need to live a good life? #RealTalk bit.ly/4kp3Wq4
#YESquote: The #Anti-Ableist Manifesto/Tiffany Yu quoting Caterina Rivera - "People w/ dynamic disabilities may be able to perform a task one day, then another day be unable to perform [it]. This doesn't mean they're faking...their conditions are real & variation is typical." #Listen bit.ly/45WNx8X
#YESquote: #Disability Visibility /AliceWong- "Disability is both apparent & nonapparent..pain, struggle, brilliance, abundance & joy..sociopolitical, cultural, & biological.
Being #visible & claiming a disabled identity brings risks as much as it brings #pride.” #SayTheWord #Courage bit.ly/4nwcq1s
#YESquote: Who Wants #Normal? /Frances Ryan- "Perhaps I was in #denial. Or...perhaps boxes like "normal" & " #success" are tricks to trap us &...it is possible to have a body that is unruly, broken, bruised, & to actually be OK. To be bloody spectacular. #DisabilityPride #OwnYourStory bit.ly/4kxZQMM
#YESquote: Life's Companion- #Journaling as Spiritual Quest/Christina Baldwin - "The #spiritualjourney is what the soul is up to while we attend to daily living. The spiritual journey is the soul's life commingling with ordinary life." #selfawareness #theexaminedlife #writetoheal
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#YESquote: #Ecopsychology / Theodore Roszak, ed. - "From the psychologist's viewpoint, both our love & our fear of nature are emotions [&] merit study. And both...translated into devotion, respect, concern, or awe, can be used to rebuild our strained bonds w/ the natural environment." bit.ly/3TivK4B
