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Fun fact 6: When you talk to yourself out loud, your brain processes it like an external voice. Studies show self-directed speech can help cognitive control and emotional regulation by engaging auditory feedback loops.
That’s why verbalising thoughts can actually calm the limbic system: the emotional command centre.
Neurodivergent Geek Girlsubstack.comKelsey Hendricks
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this is the version of me that forgets to listen to music. who overthinks texts for so long that i never send them. who fills silence with noise just to avoid sitting with my own thoughts. and it always starts the same way: i tell myself i’m “just in a weird phase,” and i try to push through. but the pushing makes it worse. the pushing makes me... See more
Days and weeks go by and the regularity of existing eclipses the miraculousness of it. But there are certain moments when we manage to be viscerally aware of being alive. Sometimes those are very scary moments, like narrowly avoiding a car accident. Sometimes they are beautiful, like holding your newborn in your arms. And then there are the quiet
... See moreSasha Sagan • For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
What is the moment—the place, the person, the activity—that has moved you to forget the time, to lose yourself, and to return to what can feel like forgotten depths (or heights)? And how can you begin to get back there, as early as tomorrow?
Suleika Jaouad • The Book of Alchemy: A guide to the art of journalling
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." — Lao Tzu
Gardening is not outcome-oriented. A successful harvest is not the end of a gardener's existence, but only a phase of it. As any gardener knows, the vitality of a garden does not end with a harvest. It simply takes another form. Gardens do not "die" in the winter but quietly prepare for another season
James Carse • Finite and Infinite Games Quotes by James P. Carse
