Jiri

“According to statistics from the City of Bogotá, of the 4 million women in Bogotá, around 1.3 million perform care work, spending hours transporting themselves and their loved ones across the city, leaving little time for much else. This is having detrimental knock-on effects on the female population, 20% of whom have diagnosed illnesses and 33% of whom are deprived of free time for self-care. In addition, 70% do not get to pursue secondary school education and 90% are on a low income.3 Women in Bogotá are trapped in time poverty, with little hope of finding a way out on their own, hurting not just them but their families and the city as a whole. A report published by UN Women and DANE (Colombia’s national statistical authority) in 2020 found that if it were paid, unpaid care activities would represent 20% of the country’s gross domestic product.4”
― Melissa Bruntlett, Women Changing Cities: Global stories of urban transformation

“When you trust your intuition, you recognize your innate capabilities and see all the ways in which they fit within the world. There is an alignment between who you are and what you offer, so you develop the confidence to lean into what makes you unique. Conditioning, on the other hand, is filled with tension because you’re constantly trying to insert yourself into unwelcoming terrain. Instead of leaning into your innate curiosities, you shrink away from them and mold yourself according to the preferences of others. And in doing so, you open the floodgates of suffering because this terrain is where fear, envy, and competition reside.”
― Lawrence Yeo, The Inner Compass: Cultivating the Courage to Trust Yourself

“To understand how salt transforms a recipe of bread, you must watch it work in context. Likewise, each ingredient of emotion must be studied in the context of the rest of the brain that influences it.”
― Lisa Feldman Barrett, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

“our emotions aren’t built-in, waiting to be revealed. They are made. By us. We don’t recognize emotions or identify emotions: we construct our own emotional experiences, and our perceptions of others’ emotions, on the spot, as needed, through a complex interplay of systems. Human beings are not at the mercy of mythical emotion circuits buried deep within animalistic parts of our highly evolved brain: we are architects of our own experience.”
― Lisa Feldman Barrett, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain