Me-Rae

“One thing we know for sure doesn’t work: just telling yourself that everything is okay now. Completing the cycle isn’t an intellectual decision; it’s a physiological shift. Just”
― Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

“Positive Social Interaction. Casual but friendly social interaction is the first external sign that the world is a safe place.”
― Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

“minor feelings: the racialized range of emotions that are negative, dysphoric, and therefore untelegenic, built from the sediments of everyday racial experience and the irritant of having one’s perception of reality constantly questioned or dismissed.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

“In short, emotions are tunnels. If you go all the way through them, you get to the light at the end. Exhaustion happens when we get stuck in an emotion.”
― Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle