Janohn Clower

“Try this: How to shift from self-focused to something bigger. When you feel under stress and you notice the urge to escape or avoid, take some time to return to a values check-in. Ask yourself questions like: How does this effort or goal fit with my values? What kind of contribution do I want to make? What difference do I want to make to others with what I am doing? What do I want to stand for during this? What do my efforts mean to me? Toolkit: Using meditation for stress”
― Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

“becoming a woman who casually did yoga by the sea.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“myself in the days or hours leading up to this feeling? Is this an emotion or just physical discomfort from an unmet need?”
― Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

“A new movement in disciplinary style, called restorative discipline, was bursting onto the national scene, which added new complexity to the trauma-informed picture where the movements intersected. At the same time, laws passed at the state and federal levels encouraged or outright required local districts to adopt trauma-informed practices. And the Office of Civil Rights, a subsidiary of the U.S. Department of Education, adopted a much more aggressive stance towards schools deemed out of compliance with federal discrimination laws, embarking on a campaign of lawsuits to correct what it saw as discriminatory practices in many districts.”
― Philip Wire, Trauma-Informed Tragedy: How Schools Got Trauma Part Right—And Part Wrong