Erika
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Erika
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youtube.comMovement is the language of the body. Our first vehicle for expression. Without thoughts and without words, the body is constantly communicating. Every stretch and sway can tell the story of who we are right now
Movement as Self-Expression 🌀
The Absent but Implicit:
Persons make meaning of an experience through contrasting it with other experiences, so that in order to distinguish something as a problem we must be contrasting it to some preferred experience. To know the experience of hate we must have some sense of love.
Source: Madigan, S. (2019). Narrative therapy (2nd ed.)
how language shapes the way we think
youtube.comEmotional granularity:
The ability to put our feelings or emotions into words (internally or otherwise) with a high degree of specificity and precision.
Research shows that when we self-identify our unpleasant emotional state in precise and narrow terms, we improve our emotional intelligence, our overall well-being and resilience to the emotion at
... See moreImpatience is an argument with reality - Rick Rubin
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. Without them, our lives get made up for us by other people.