grief
emotional hygiene is not another thing to do perfectly. it’s not about becoming immune to spirals or forever calm or unshakably centered. it’s about cleaning up often enough that you don’t mistake the mess for your personality. it’s about catching the overwhelm before it becomes a worldview. it’s about building the quiet skill of knowing when your... See more
milk and cookies • a guide to emotional hygiene for overthinkers
Tig Notaro honors her friend, @Andrea Gibson, with a reading of their poem, "Tincture."
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I like reading philosophy because people say things like "you are tormented out of passion for what matters to you" and then it sticks with me forever. That's a line from a paper on grief as an ongoing, vocational, and dedicational activity by Line Ryberg Ingerslev.*
Ingerslev uses this term "vocational" to describe the... See more
Jessica Doresubstack.comMary Oliver reciting her poem, ‘Wild Geese’ (1986), at a live poetry reading in 2012. Mary Oliver sadly passed away in January of 2019.
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• Source: The 92nd Street Y, New York: “Mary Oliver Reads From a Thousand Mornings”, YouTube.... See more
coffee_with_keatsinstagram.comIt wasn’t your fault, and it never was
Abuse is a cycle, one that victims rarely escape unscathed. In this devastating monologue, Rya (Amanda Seyfried) dismantles the cruel misconception that repeated trauma is just “bad luck”. Instead, it’s the result of a horrifying psychological and behavioural pattern ingrained in... See more
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