The Feel Good Effect: Reclaim Your Wellness by Finding Small Shifts that Create Big Change Reclaim Your Wellness by Finding Small Shifts that Create Big Change

"If you struggle to make #goodhabits stick, to find consistency, & to actually #feelgood in the process, you're not alone...I was you. But here's what I want you to know.
You are not failing. You are not a #failure." ~The Feel Good Effect/Robyn Conley Downs #selfcompassion #YESquotes bit.ly/4mWwSYr

"If you...cannot take on as much as someone else, that does not make you either #weak or #crazy. You just have to prepare differently & live your life unapologetically for you." The Unapologetic Guide to #BlackMentalHealth /Rheeda Walker Ph.D #OwnYourStory #BanishStigma #YESquotes bit.ly/4fGGCDH

"You are worthy of releasing the #hustle that has overtaken you & convinced you that you are supposed to be someone other than who you are at this point in your life. You are #worthy, period." Hustle, Flow, or Let It Go?/Portia Preston
#shame-freewellness #honoryourreality #YESquotes
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#YESquotes: The #Work #Wellness Deck / Landra Eliopoulos - "To thrive @ work, it's crucial for us to adopt tools & practices to #managestress, be more #present, #communicate effectively, #resolveconflict, & navigate the waters of change & uncertainty." #EQ #mentalhealth #mindfulwork
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August is #NationalWellnessMonth - #YESquotes will be selected from the #LIVEdammit bookshelves. Come & explore the breadth of our offerings, w/ #inspiration, #challenge, & grist for #growth & #healing! Your purchases subsidize #indiebooksellers - you can specify which. #BookLovers bit.ly/3HfIZjP

#YesQuotes: Every Day is a Gift/Sen. Tammy Duckworth - "“The boot the crew gave me [is] a reminder not of what I lost in Iraq, but of what I gained from my experiences there...the camaraderie, mission, & sense of purpose I share w/ my fellow Soldiers..... bit.ly/4fqSnhp

#YESquotes: The Other Side of #Sadness /George A. Bonanno- "Most #bereaved people get better on their own, w/o any kind of professnl help. They may be deeply saddened, they may feel adrift...but their life eventually finds its way again, oft more easily than they thought possible." bit.ly/45dELBC

#YESquotes: Atlas of the Heart / Brené Brown - “When I’m prioritizing being liked over being free, I was much sweeter but less #authentic. Now I’m kinder and less judgmental. But also firmer and more solid. Occasionally salty.” #TrueToSelf #SelfRespect #Boundaries #Empowered bit.ly/4l2arzs

Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Journey Discovering the Story of Your Life's Journey

#YESquotes: Writing For Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Journey / Deena Metzger - “If the #journal is the jumble of raw material—blood, bones, sinews—and a #poem is the cell, the impulse, the #story is the entire animal.” #WriteToHeal #CreativeJourney #WholeStory bit.ly/45jXoou

#YESquotes - Practicing The #PowerOfNow / #EckhartTolle - “The beginning of #freedom is the realization that you are not 'the #thinker.' The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of #consciousness becomes activated...you begin to #awaken." #SelfAwareness #Presence bit.ly/4lFgMSD

#YESquotes: An Unquiet Mind/Kay Redfield Jamison - “We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life & often overwhelming forces w/in our minds. In whatever way we do this... we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime.” #bipolar #MentalHealth #Resilience bit.ly/4lFqowV

The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us - A Diary How Nature Mends Us - A Diary

#YESquotes: The #WildRemedy/ Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social - "Simply getting #outside of the house & seeing the blackthorns & lime tree outside our cottage induces a response in me that I can only describe as a #neuronal sigh of relief...simultaneously soothing & curative." bit.ly/4m5fCjk

#YESquotes: Love from Heaven: Practicing #Compassion for Yourself & Others/Lorna Byrne - "The #angels keep showing me how little #love most ppl feel for themselves & as a result, how little love there really is in our lives--& how much more there could be." #LoveHeals #SelfCompassion bit.ly/4kOV5hR

#YESquotes: Thinking in Pictures: My Life with #Autism /Temple Grandin - “I replaced #emotionalcomplexity w/ visual & intellectual complexity. I questioned everything & looked to logic, science, & intellect for answers.....More knowledge makes me act more normal.” #Neurodiversity bit.ly/40RFBCw

#YESquotes: #Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind/Theodore Roszak- "Creation of urban intellect intended to heal urban angst, modern #psychotherapy ..never [reached] beyond family & society to address the nonhuman habitat that..engulfs the tiny psychic island" #Ecomind bit.ly/46Kmqy7

#YESquotes: All Tangled Up In #Autism & #ChronicIllness/ Charli Clement- " #Self-diagnosis is seen as valid w/in the autistic & #disabled communities due to the barriers marginalized ppl..face while seeking prof. dx, ranging fr. financial..to racial or gender-based privilege." #Access bit.ly/4lWOO4u

Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works Check out Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works - This authoritative edition brings together all of Hopkins's poetry and a generous selection of his prose writings to explore the essence of his work ...

#YESquotes: #GerardManleyHopkins: the Major Works -
"My own heart let me more have pity on; let
Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,
Charitable; not live this tormented mind
With this tormented mind tormenting yet."
#SelfCompassion #HealingWords #MentalHealth #EmotionalResilience
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#YESquotes: Truth Or Dare/Starhawk - "We also have a responsibility not to let ourselves be #judged. We don't have to accept others' evaluations of our #worth, [or] believe in their #superiority ...we can #stopthegame by refusing to play our expected part." #ReclaimOurWorth bit.ly/3U1WlDg

Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

#YESquotes: Sitting Pretty/Rebekah Taussig - “The goal is not to avoid falling or needing #help. The goal is to be seen, asked, heard, believed, valued as we are, allowed to exist in these exact bodies, invited to the party, & encouraged to dance however we want to.” #InclusionMatters bit.ly/44O0yzE

#YESquotes: #ActiveHope / #JoannaMacy - "A newspaper photo viewed thru a magnifying glass may appear only as tiny dots. When it seems as if our #lives & #choices are like those dots, it can be difficult to recognize their contribution to a bigger picture of #change.” #TheGreatTurning bit.ly/408xAc3

#YESquotes: Women Who Run w/ the Wolves/Clarissa Pinkola Estes - "When #women don't speak, when not enuf ppl speak, the [WildWoman's #voice] becomes silent, &...the world becomes silent of the natural & wild too..singings & dancings & creations...loving, repairing, & holding." #Create bit.ly/3Ts8tgM

#YESquotes: #ChopWoodCarryWater / Rick Fields - "In the #spiritualquest, as in any undertaking, we can only begin in the #present, & can only start from where we are. While this may seem obvious, it is often just this obvious fact that we tend to overlook." #BeHereNow #PathOfPractice bit.ly/46eU4w3

#YESquotes: Fires In the Dark/ Kay R. Jamison - "To write abt #war was to shape its #terror & futility into something that cd be grasped & its #memory to a point controlled...the debt to the dead was to remember & carry the message fwd. Nations as well as individuals #grieved" #Trauma bit.ly/4kjxuWd

#YESquotes: Building a Life Worth Living/Marsha Linehan - "You have to go through your #anger, open up to your #therapist, #keepgoing through the #pain. It isn’t overnight that you are going to #feelbetter. But you will.” #MentalHealth #HealingJourney #DBT #FeelToHeal #BraveNotBroken bit.ly/3GwrKdT

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally

#YESquotes: Demystifying Disability/Emily Ladau - "It's important to remember that if you've met one disabled person, you've met one disabled person. If you have a disability, the only disability experience you're an expert on is your own." #DisabilityPride #OwnVoices bit.ly/45KMjgZ

#YESquotes: #GerardManleyHopkins/ Major Works
“Soul, self; come, poor Jackself, I do advise / You, jaded, let be; call off thoughts awhile / Elsewhere; leave comfort root-room; let joy size / At God knows when to God knows what…”
Let joy grow where it will. #MentalHealth #LetGoToGrow bit.ly/3I8l9qz

#YESquotes: Redefining Realness/Janet Mock: “Telling our stories, 1st to ourselves & then to one another & the world, is a revolutionary act...that can be met w/ hostility, exclusion, & violence. It can also lead to love, understanding, transcendence, & community" #Pride #TruthTelling bit.ly/3TihKI1

#YESquotes: ACE / Angela Chen: "The #ace world is not an obligation. Nobody needs to #identify, nobody is trapped, nobody needs to stay forever & pledge #allegiance." #Pride #Asexual #IdentityIsFluid #QueerFreedom #AceVisibility #SelfDefined bit.ly/44DeFJ0

Friends — as June & #PrideMonth draw to a close, I’d love your feedback.
Do the daily #YESquotes serve you?
Is there anything I could change to make them more helpful?
In the chaos of these times, it’s vital to remember:
#MentalHealth matters.
#Kindness matters.
#Allyship matters.
💛 Thank you!

#YESquotes: Dark Nights of the Soul / Thomas Moore - "No one gives you a sense of #security. You have to get it for yourself, mainly by living your own life w/ enthusiasm & by learning to #loveyourself ...probably thru a real #darknightofthesoul." #mentalhealth #resilience #shadowwork bit.ly/45IvROk