Studies Show That Approaching Youth With A Bystander-intervention Model Is Actually A Lot More Effective

Why...would you want to leave the bog

In hindsight I think this was the moment when I began to stan Madeleine Sami <3

Thinking about the way Eddie tightens her messy bun after she kisses Ray and tells him off

None of us is alone. I'm still here. We're still here. In spite of all of this, we're still not going back, only forward. I love you with my whole heart, family.

US residents: now is a good time to renew your passport. Maybe you don't think you would ever choose to leave, but having the option is better than not having it.

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[“When we are able to access our “body memories” through the felt sense, then we can begin to discharge the instinctive survival energy that we did not have a chance to use at the time of an event. Regardless of what your particular situation is, you can learn to discharge and transform this energy. The discharge can be dramatic and visible, or subtle and quiet. It can be an intense shivering or the slightest sense of inner trembling; or it may be a changing of temperature between hot and cold, between warmth and coolness. Afterwards, you might notice that things fall into place a little easier, or that you’re calmer and more relaxed. Perhaps things that once upset you won’t seem to bother you as much, and you are significantly less critical of yourself. Or, you might experience a subtle deepening of your sense of well-being. It’s also entirely possible that the change may be more profound. Chronic pain may disappear. You might be able to do things that you’ve never before attempted. Your relationships with loved ones and others might become freer and easier. You might experience a surge in your feelings of passion and personal power. When trauma is healed, shift happens.”]

peter levine, from healing trauma, 2008

I was walking down a sidewalk once in Berlin and this dazzling butterfly wandered over and landed on my sleeve. It was so beautiful and I just stood there looking at it for a few seconds. Then there was another human walking toward me, going the opposite way down the same sidewalk, and I didn't speak hardly any German at that point but I just sort of looked at them visibly and they noticed and looked at me, and then noticed the butterfly, and we stood there both admiring it for a minute, until it flew off. Then I tried to say something to them in German but it came out in French by mistake and they frowned and said something back in Mandarin and then we both just stared at each other in bafflement for a second and then both laughed and walked away in our opposite directions But it had been such a cute interaction that as we walked away from each other we both, in the same moment, glanced back over our shoulders at each other, and saw each other looking back, and made eye contact twenty feet apart, and both giggled self-consciously, and it was so good This was years ago but it still gives me life

Sometimes I just really like us

do you ever see someone in some quiet intimate moment and suddenly love them so desperately you feel like you’re dying

#like when they pass a mirror and make a face and mess with their hair a little #or when you hear someone singing in their car with the windows rolled up as they drive past you #i don’t know how to express this i just. people are people and it makes me so sad and filled up sometimes

Jessica Fletcher phone moments.

R.I.P. Angela Lansbury

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