Natalie Audelo

@natalieaudelo

designing social architecture and community experiences that build trust, generate creativity, and encourage authentic human connection. exploring the healing power of play, movement, music and other integrative practices.

All we ever seek, and all we ever avoid are feelings. Feelings run the world. They constitute the only useful product of all material transactions between humans and their environment. Just like your body can’t use the food it eats for energy until it’s turned to glucose, we can’t really make use of the things we seek until they deliver certain fee... See more
from What you want is never a thing by David Cain
feelings run the world
Boredom is just “What’s the use?” in disguise. And “What’s the use?” is fear, and fear means you are secretly in despair. So put your fears on the page.
from The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
in my (not so fun) feels
Now, the GoFundMe and DonorsChoose thing is closely related, but it gets its own throughline. These platforms emerge to seemingly supplement gaps in the public safety net for things like education and health care. But instead, they’re in a kind of enabling feedback loop: instead of your taxes ensuring that kids have desks and cancer patients can ge... See more
from The Problems of Modern Philanthropy
power structures and dynamics and Capitalism
stories trapped in my cells, emotions in my fascia: there was information hidden in my body, and I didn’t know it.
from The Burnout Antidote by Anne Berube
the body keeps score
loving the process
A design studio called donttakethisthewrongway has placed the bags throughout the city for anyone to take a moment to relieve some tension! The bright yellow bags feature an image of a fist and say ‘Public punching bag. Use at your own risk. A healthy place for frustrations.’ The design studio said: ‘The concept explores designing common spaces for the frustrations we all face. Frustrations that go beyond designed systems and happen, well, because we are human.’ ‘The public punching bag offers an outlet for these emotions as a means to maybe develop a healthier way to address personal and collective issues in a public setting.’ Let us know your thoughts below! #memereport 🥊
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cool concepts
The mind, with its thoughts, is driven by feelings. Each feeling is the cumulative derivative of many thousands of thoughts. Because most people throughout their lives repress, suppress, and try to escape from their feelings, the suppressed energy accumulates and seeks expression through psychosomatic distress, bodily disorders, emotional illnesse
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from Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender a book by David R. Hawkins by David R. Hawkins
When Amabile analyzed 12,000 diary entries of employees from a variety of industries, she found that 76% of people reported that their best days involved making progress toward goals.
from The Neuroscience of Trust by Paul J. Zak
how to build trust

from What you want is never a thing by David Cain

from The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron

from The Problems of Modern Philanthropy

from The Burnout Antidote by Anne Berube

from Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender a book by David R. Hawkins by David R. Hawkins

from The Neuroscience of Trust by Paul J. Zak