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Rebekah Noonan

Because discomfort is the price of not rushing to fix.

It’s what shows up when you pause instead of perform.

It’s what you feel when you stop doing and start being.

Discomfort isn’t punishment. It’s information.

It tells you where the wound is. Where the pattern lives.

Where something in you is still convinced that worth must be earned through

— Grandma, how to do deal with pain? — With your hands, honey. If you do it with your mind in place to relieve the pain, it becomes even harder. — With our hands grandma? — Yes. Our hands are the antennae of our soul. If you move them by weaving, cooking,... See more

Perfectionism often wears the mask of high standards , ambition , discipline. It parades itself as virtue, a propriety. In reality, it is rarely about the pursuit of excellence but the terror of being perceived as inadequate.

perfectionism is a form of shame

most of the demons worth slaying, they're the children of Certainty and Convenience

River Kenna x.com

But to be human is not to have answers. It is to have questions—and to live with them. The machines can’t do that for us. Not now, not ever.

And so, at last, we can return—seriously, earnestly—to the reinvention of the humanities, and of humanistic education itself. We can return to what was always the heart of the matter—the lived experience of... See more

D. Graham Burnett • Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? | the New Yorker

When we say to ourselves, “This feels bad. I need a way to fix this!” that’s the very moment when the most growth and promise lies at our fingertips. But in order to access it, we have to do the opposite of what we want to do. We have to resist the urge to analyze or find a solution or protect ourselves from our emotions.

We have to stop and feel... See more

Heather Havrilesky • Tolerating Unknowns Will Make You Stronger

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