Olivia Caruso
@equanimity
Olivia Caruso
discipline doesn’t have to be rigid. it just has to be rooted in love. this is why i prefer the word devotion.
holistic mami✨x.comi am devoted to finding ways to soothe myself and learn more about myself outside of weed
Authentic play comes from deep down inside us. It’s not formed or motivated solely by others. Real play interacts with and involves the outside world, but it fundamentally expresses the needs and desires of the player. It emerges from the imaginative force within. That’s part of the adaptive power of play: with a pinch of pleasure, it integrates
... See moreStuart Brown M.D., Christopher Vaughan • Play
If you actually listen to what your body (not your mind) wants, you’ll discover that it doesn’t want three weeks of hot fudge sundaes despite the panting and salivating that is evoked at their very mention. In addition to your body’s need for foods other than cream and fudge, there is also the fact that the moment you tell yourself you can have it,
... See moreGeneen Roth • Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
remove the taboo from your craving and it becomes less enticing?
And numbing vulnerability is especially debilitating because it doesn’t just deaden the pain of our difficult experiences; numbing vulnerability also dulls our experiences of love, joy, belonging, creativity, and empathy. We can’t selectively numb emotion. Numb the dark and you numb the light.
Brené Brown • Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
you can’t numb some
When You're Bored, You're Being Shaped.
Boredom isn’t the absence of stimulation. It’s a test. Of what you reach for. Of what you default to.
Do you grab your phone? Or a pen? Do you scroll? Or sit with your thoughts? Do you numb? Or build?
Because what you do... See more
pathsofstoicismsubstack.comi want stillness from boredom
“ People think resilience and success come from getting to ‘knowing’ as soon as possible. They’re wrong. Resilience and success come from the length of time you can tolerate being in the Learning Space. What I think is very empowering to know, is that the Learning Space [the space between ‘not knowing’ and ‘knowing’] has one feeling associated with... See more
Carina • Be where you are
resilience can feel frustrating. frustration can be learning. frustration can be an uncomfortable growth.
Story of Your Life- Ted Chiang Thoughts
it has been a few days since i read this but maybe thats better to gwt a somewhat lasting impression of my thoughts of it. what sticks out most is its relation to my thoughts on time and how humans perceive it. how we look at it like a chronological timeline but whos to say it exists like that? when we exist
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my personal ruminations
#theoverstory #equanimity #grief
i feel a strange tranquility now. maybe the tranquility was numbness orstunnedness. hell is a feeling and its the feeling of being perceived. of wut i think they think abt me and inescapably feeling defined by it. i was scared to ride a lime scooter. was a woman of the 19th century scared to
... See moreThe Quilters- Netflix
Here are my thoughts on this short documentary.
Im a few minutes in. The care and detail that the people have is amazing. I don’t know how to reference the people who are in the movie but they are prisoners at level 5 security prison. They quilt. They care about the craft of quilting. And it’s so much math! The dimensions of
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