“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” passionately pragmatic, unlearning biases, pro-science, horticulture, loves weird plants 🪴
Walking Thru Fire , US
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Charlotte✨🐛🦋 retweeted
You can be grateful for everything you have and still hate what chronic illness has taken away from you
Charlotte✨🐛🦋 retweeted
People may assume that therapists are meant to be “empathetic,” and that receiving empathy will feel good. But one of the least empathetic things a therapist can do is to let a patient forget that they are in therapy, and that therapy can’t provide them with what is forever lost.
Charlotte✨🐛🦋 retweeted
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
- Abraham Heschel
Charlotte✨🐛🦋 retweeted
You think ADHD is just procrastinating things you don’t wanna do?
Well, guess what?
I PROCRASTINATE THINGS I *DO* WANNA DO
Charlotte✨🐛🦋 retweeted
It's unfortunate how wanting people to treat each other with basic kindness, and speaking up when they don't, can get twisted into something completely different. It's a simple standard, but keeping it isn't always easy. Being good has never been easy, it takes courage.
Charlotte✨🐛🦋 retweeted
Indian Rhinoceros! Short tempered and loves to swim.
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Some people would have a very different opinion about chronic illness if they had to live with one for a day.
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Today’s Psychologist Credo: Human dignity is therapeutic.
Dignity is not a reward for change. Nor should it be withheld to pressure for change. Dignity is one of the conditions that makes change possible. When people feel respected rather than judged, shame loosens its grip. Recognizing each person’s inherent worth creates the safety needed to confront painful truths, accept responsibility, and grow.
Charlotte✨🐛🦋 retweeted
Animal of the Day:
Indian Rhinoceros!
What if a short-tempered, sentient tank took up swimming?
I imagine you’d look at me funny and say, “You mean a hippo?” and we’d laugh and laugh!
But no, not a hippo. An IR aka Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros. The most aquatic…
Charlotte✨🐛🦋 retweeted
Science taught me to question everything.
Music taught me to listen.
Both taught me that the more you learn, the more you realise how much you don’t know.
