As far as my own stuff goes, I was Marie Kondo before Marie Kondo was cool.
“racism is a structure, not an event.”
― White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
― White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
“We need not be afraid of silence; sometimes it can help us listen to our precious inner messages.”
― What's Beyond Mindfulness
― What's Beyond Mindfulness
“the more threatened or stressed we are, the less access we have to the smart part of our brain, the cortex”
― What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
― What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
“that a story was nothing more than a lie you got away with.”
― Homegoing
― Homegoing
“We elicit from the world what we project into the world; but what you project is based upon what happened to you as a child.”
― What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
― What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
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