Sara Campbell
@tinyrevver
i never give up
Sara Campbell
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In a transformational workshop, the participants come to perceive themselves, each other, and their world differently. The goal of coming together is to create the conditions for these perceptions to shift through insight and empathy, both in the individual and in the group.
Liz Korabek-Emerson • Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops
For the most part, they are portrayed as abusers rather than users of power. They take it illegitimately, in a way that leads to chaos, to the fracture of the state, to death and destruction. They are monstrous hybrids, who are not, in the Greek sense, women at all. And the unflinching logic of their stories is that they must be disempowered and
... See moreMary Beard • Women & Power: A Manifesto
All of the people I know who are very talented and could be hugely successful have an obvious cringe activity standing between them and their reward and they just aren’t yet willing to walk into the tsunami of cringe
Sasha Chapinx.comWhere Fromm joins Freud is in asserting that the very development—consciousness—that brought about our rise and then our fall is the only one that can release us from this pervasive sense of aloneness. The problem is that the consciousness bestowed on us is just barely sufficient; if we are to achieve inner freedom, it is necessary that we become... See more
“Put on the Diamonds”, by Vivian Gornick
Raising consciousness as a cure for loneliness
Another important way in which the erotic connection functions is the open and fearless underlining of my capacity for joy. In the way my body stretches to music and opens into response, hearkening to its deepest rhythms, so every level upon which I sense also opens to the erotically satisfying experience, whether it is dancing, building a... See more
Audre Lorde. • Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: Erotic as Power
See confusion as confusion. Acknowledge suffering as suffering. Feel pain and sorrow and divisiveness. Experience anger or fear or shock for what they are. But you don’t have to think of them as evil—as intrinsically bad, as needing to be destroyed or driven from our midst. On the contrary, they need to be absorbed, healed, made whole. Like
... See moreSteve Hagen • Buddhism Is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs
“More hormonally one-note,” Jordi said, referring to the graph. “Imagine what it feels like to be a man. No cycles. No deaths-within-life. No transformation from one kind of person into another.”
Miranda July • All Fours: A Novel
There is at least one person out there who wants this specific version of you – your current state of mind, feelings, and interests. Creation helps you find that person.