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.

Sometimes, when I’m feeling especially brutal about something I’ve done or failed to do, I imagine I’m one of my own girlfriends, someone I love and who loves me in a way that’s expansive and forgiving. Then I reassess whatever I’m being mean about, through her borrowed POV, or by way of asking – what if she’d done or failed at this thing, how woul... See more
from Rachel DeWoskin Tells Us
I threw a housewarming party after living here for one month and had dozens of people sipping wine out of every drinking vessel I owned, blessing my home with warmth and chatter that spilled out into the streets.
from Call me a homebody. by Izabella Zucker
this is a mf vibe
The most sustainable and potent motivation is experiencing joy and curiosity within an activity. Cultivate joy for exercise and fascination with fitness to remove the need for constant external motivation.
from Exploring Our Why by Sam Sager
loving the process
🍽️ the Art Cafe is fully booked this weekend. :) Join us next weekend by dm’ing to get your spot! See y’all soon!
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cool concepts
I have also come to understand that trying to fit into society’s understanding of a “good girl” is a trap, the same way that the “model minority” and the “good gay” and the “good fatty” are all traps. Even when you succeed at it you lose, because these roles are all ultimately means of containment: of circumscribing power by putting exacting, contr... See more
from Taylor Swift and the Good Girl Trap
power structures and dynamics
Maya Angelou // "When I’m writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we’re capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I’m trying for that. But I’m also trying for the language. I’m trying to see how it can really sound. I really love language. I love it for what it does for us, how it allows us to explain the pain and the glory, the nuances and the delicacies of our existence."
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Maya Angelou and the art of writing
But with less separation between art and commerce, Montgomery says, “there’s some self-censorship that happens. If you’re a little too knowledgeable about PR, you start to become way too aware of things like posting schedules, and it’s impossible to be punk anymore.”
from Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to. by Rebecca Jennings
People are happy enough rich, and people are happy enough poor. But it’s hard to imagine anyone happy without a feeling that their actions have some impact, however small. Even if you’re not going to be remembered by history, you want to be remembered by your barista. The prisoner, though largely robbed of power, is probably happier if he can vex h... See more
from What the Humans Like Is Responsiveness by Sasha Chapin
Finding Meaning and Human Stuff

from Rachel DeWoskin Tells Us

from Call me a homebody. by Izabella Zucker

from Exploring Our Why by Sam Sager

from Taylor Swift and the Good Girl Trap

from Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to. by Rebecca Jennings

from What the Humans Like Is Responsiveness by Sasha Chapin