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The security staff, in their wisdom, remembered the events of the previous month, and from what I could tell from the residents of that corner of my building the next day, these custodians of campus safety did not chuckle. The following
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“who I am in one space impacts who I am in another.”
― How Am I Doing?: 40 Conversations to Have with Yourself
― How Am I Doing?: 40 Conversations to Have with Yourself
“We need acts of restoration, not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world. We need to restore honor to the way we live, so that when we walk through the world we don’t have to avert our eyes with shame, so that we can hold our heads up high and receive the respectful acknowledgment of the rest of the earth’s beings.”
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“Greatness isn’t just going to happen. Greatness comes from preparation, and it starts with coming into awareness of what’s important to me and creating a plan of how I’m going to achieve that. Greatness means taking time to block out what everyone else wants for me and instead focus on who I want to be.”
― How Am I Doing?: 40 Conversations to Have with Yourself
― How Am I Doing?: 40 Conversations to Have with Yourself
“But unfortunately, I do not have one foundational trauma. I have thousands. So my anxious freak-outs are not, as the books say, "temporal." They don't only occur when I see an angry face or someone pulls a driver out of their golf bag. My freak-outs are more or less constant, a fixed state of being. That infinite plethora of triggers makes complex PTSD more difficult to heal from than traditional PTSD. And the way the books seem to think about it, our fixed state of being also makes us more problematic.”
― What My Bones Know
― What My Bones Know
“The essence of what trauma does to a person is it makes them feel like they don’t deserve love,” the voice in my headphones said. I was on the train, on my way to yet another doctor’s appointment, but this statement rang so true that I dug furiously through my bag and pulled out a notebook to write it down. I was about to put away my pen when I heard another especially good line, so I kept it out, writing furiously on my lap. My friend Jen, who often sends me little poems and links throughout the day, sent me this podcast—Road to Resilience,”
― What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
― What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
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