#resiliency

[thepersonalquotes]

Moments of reflection occur with calm deliberation and careful thought. Imagine the thoughts which would come to you if you would simply allow them. By giving intentional consideration to a situation, you will gain clarity which you may not have achieved otherwise.

Susan C. Young

#quotelr #quotes #literature #lit #change #motivation #positivity #reflect #resilience #resiliency #thrive-in-times-of-change #www-susanspeaks-com

[thepeacefulgarden]

#starting over #self compassion #self compassion and accountability can and must coexist #don't give up #resiliency #give yourself credit #you're doing better than you think #you are not a failure #you don't suck #you are not your past #you are not your mistakes #you are enough #you are worthy #healing #recovery

[skeletonpandas]

I wish someone would stop their walk and join him.

#japan #palestine #activism #resiliency #current events #living historical events #strength

[goddess-of-alchemy]

#alchemy #resiliency #boundaries #tread softly #quotes #john green

[programmedforapathy]

Was feeling dysphoric today, so I just thought I’d mention:

If you are trans and it takes all you have to just survive, you’ve still won.

If you are trans and you can’t bring yourself to do anything today but breathe and keep surviving, that is by no means a loss. In a world meant to crush and break many minorities, including trans people, survival is one hell of a middle finger. So, if all you can do is stay alive, the day wasn’t wasted. Not by a long shot.

#trans #transfem #transmasc #resiliency

[ourmadramblr]

#memes #meme #lol #lol memes #relatable memes #art #hamster memes #hamster meme #resilient #resiliency #the horrors #the horrors and I hang out

[mercurialbadger]

When we are talking about charity, there must exist a level of certain precaution to not let your emotional turmoil result in subpar actions. If empathy is a natural response to seeing people in pain, then it makes sense to liken it to a kneejerk response, much different from a graceful strike of a soccer player.

Very often, personal face-to-face ingroup charity is used to displace the actual efforts at improving people's conditions, and if your organization lacks political oversight or a certain analytical capacity, you might have serving the community replaced with individual help which eventually accumulates every bias and/or ends up being co-opted by some cult.

I am seeing especially egregorious horrific examples of that on Twitter right now, so I will use them to illistrate a point that is otherwise too global and deep-rooted.

In order to understand how this approach does its harm, you need to understand cause and effect, past and future.

THE CAUSE

We are talking about a clique that talks about investing in trans community by helping homeless and/or unemployed trans women by "paying their bills" for some months before they "get up on their own legs". Thankfully, it's a US based clique, so a lot of sociological studies exist to demonstrate the current situation with trans rights.

Let's investigate the causes of queer people being unemployed and/or homeless. The obvious systemic cause is trans-/homophobia, which results in people losing their capabilities immediately after leaving their parents/coming out to them (see e.g. https://doi.org/gq37kh), or otherwise follows the patterns of stigmatization, exclusion and victimization. If we address more widespread political economy of this vulnerability in the USA, topics of mental health, such as PTSD burnout, substance abuse and sexual abuse - including significantly from within queer community - emerge as vulnerability categories (https://doi.org/ggsjt6). As for how inventive abuse from within "community" is, one might refer themselves to the concepts of "hot allostatic load" and "identity abuse" (https://doi.org/ggmdcd).

Failures of t4t ethos and "community short-circuit" also have been described as sources of chronic homelessness among queer youth (https://doi.org/mpx8).

One must be especially mindful of the fact that level of education is an important - if not the most important - predictive factor of queer homelessness, effects were described in depth by Rachel M. Schmitz in the dissertation work "ON THE STREET AND ON CAMPUS".

While the effects identified the author ascribes to better socioeconomical standing of college students majorly, author both identified " experiences of homelessness" as "uniting people through a shared sense of struggle and conflict", and notably gives credit to educational endeavor of academia as vastly superior to "street experience", and studies in countries with accessible education still identify low education level with risks of anxiety and depression. (https://doi.org/mpx3) (https://doi.org/mpx4)

As Negura notes, "Ultimately, the three concepts—‘social support’, ‘social capital’ and ‘social bonds’ — are complementary. These terms are used here to understand the same reality of mutual help amongst people, from different social perspectives."

CONSEQUENCES

The most recognized effect of homelessness is anxiety and depression. Recent works identify that both of these health effects are significantly resolved through providing housing, however meta-analysis of the works being done is very complicated by poor methodology of studies: short follow-up, making it impossible to judge the homelessness outcomes, and high group heterogeneity. (https://doi.org/mpxx)

Among the outcomes of homelessness specifically in queer people, "utopian thinking" is seen, in accordance with England, 2022, "an inevitable part of community responses: to improve the present it, it is necessary to look beyond the present and to an alternative in which queerness does not only survive, but is valued, celebrated and encouraged".

To a materialist that would mean death of the community as a utopianism-free endeavor, but it is not, however, it should be noted that imperfect solutions to the crisis provide fertile soil to these cognitive failures.

Actual observations of the long-lasting effects of experienced homelessness are, indeed, lacking, but so far there's no data that homelessness and unemployment actually have significant lasting damage in the queer population, nonetheless remaining the risk factor in their duration.

One, however, important effect of escaping and avoiding homelessness is resiliency. As Cronley, 2017 notes, "Rather than understanding how youth are surviving in extremely adverse environments, research applies socially normative models of behavior to their actions such that conclusions of deviancy and marginalization are inevitable" and "youth rely on informal social networks to survive on the street and that spirituality, mental health, and creativity are associated with improved coping". Once again we are drawn to connections to education systems within this approach.

And therefore we must remember establishment of education systems during historical cases.

PAST

Expansion of educational processes has long been demonstrated to be a driver of establishing new or maintaining old hegemony.

One might remember Huguenots, who existed both in France and in Netherlands. Often, for example in Van der Lem's "Eighty Years War", Erasmus of Rotherdam is remembered to be as a reason for catholics' loss in the region - humanism, moderateness and church reforms were indeed the ideas of his. It's not easy for me to believe, considering how Netherlands were absolute leaders in amount of exterminated heretics during the 1520-1540, therefore you cannot imagine the humanism and spirit of mercantile freedom helping very much.

But comparing the historical evidence between French Huguenot fighting and Netherlands' Huguenot fighting, one stark difference is seen immediately without even examining the evidence - it's the material amount of Evidence piled up.

Netherlands of XVI century was ultimately a literature-centric country: rational argument, presented with necessary charisma and efficiency, put into the easy epistolary style allowing for open discussion - all that erased the differences between catholics and protestants.

And using this positional leveling, protestants spent 10-20 years before, well, protesting with continuous work of printing press, while catholics of Netherlands continued, thinking themselves safe, sat complacent, only satisfying the demands of the already intellectual public.

Indeed, you can not let a worldly peasant work with biology, err, theology, lest they will be mistaken and fall into the tenets of sin themselves. A good example of this "Don't give the North Korean kids iGEM distribution" was dutch translation of La Bouclier de la Foy by Nicole Grenier, which the translator prefaced with an easy explanation that you should never actually argue with heretics, the priestly class knows best.

In France, enjoying the closeness of Rome, literacy was synonymous with military industry, err, Raytheon, wait, wrong, Catholic Church.

Of course it was literacy ultimately sympathetic to the plight of the layman, and easily putting itself into their shoes - «Les disputes de Guillot le porcher et de la Bergère de S. Denis en France contre Jehan Calvin prédicant de Genesve» is exactly about the lower classes destroying Kalvin himself with facts and logic.

And, like this, simply by virtue of being able to work with higher reasoning in lower genres, you can win the Hegemony.

The ultimate victory of feminism in 1917 also answers a lot about where did soviet feminists come from - from the intermediate spaces where people of higher class can interact as equals with people of lower class, without financial or institutional power relationship between them. An example is, of course Pavlov teaching women's courses and creating a whole host of women physiologists, actual hymnasia and schools, such as in Sonya Yanovskaya case.

Masonic secret societies, where jews could freely talk to christians and nobles mingles with commoner bourgeois were this driver in bourgeois revolutions, universities drove February and October revolution, and even in the USA the connectedness to high-socioeconomic status, what is called "bridging social capital" remains a primary predictor of success of people from oppressed groups. (https://doi.org/gqmpxx)

FUTURE

As such, I cannot see a way for personal charity - bonding social capital, excising queer people from support networks and from solidarity with marginalized, destructive to both people outside of it and to attempts to build a queer community — to be excused in modern conditions.

Build new platforms to, instead of elevating select voices, sing together.

#charity #Education #empowering #Resiliency #queer community #iris.txt

[unofficialchronicle]

Resiliency is our inherent capacity to see beauty, find connection, commune with something larger than ourselves, and create- even in or after horrendous experiences

Staci K. Haines 

Staci Haines is the author of “The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing and Social Justice.” She is the founder of generationFIVE and the co-founder of generative somatics.

#resiliency #trauma #trauma recovery #trauma therapy #trauma informed mindfulness #trauma therapist #recovery #quotes #therapist #resources #research #somatic #somatics #generative somatics

[seonghwacore]

#ann.txt #this is something about seonghwa and jeonghan that both share but it's not in me #that pull me to them #resiliency #next to it is empathy #and im consistently reminded #i might not be the soul reader but i hope my observation at a detailed level actually proves that theyre truly empathetic #and im not denying the 5% CI of these traits being untrue. the alternative hypothesis to my null #after all i have to factor in the lact of mutual understanding in the formula #but at least i find them filling the hollow

[scottwelle]

Why Haven't You Done More?

Why Haven't You Done More? #outperform

Starting out “small” is part of the process. Everyone has been there. After taking a hiatus last week for Thanksgiving (I hope you had a great one!), I’m going back to a speaking engagement I had before the holiday… I was the opening keynote speaker for a conference in Vancouver, BC. As a native Minnesotan, most people couldn’t believe that this was my FIRST time in Canada! It’s a longer story…

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#confidence #courage #goal setting #goals #grit #leadership #mental toughness #motivation #Positive Attitude #resiliency #winning

[nanobookreview]

You couldn't save it all, but the alternative was to do nothing, and most people seemed to agree you had to try.

–Sunstorm

#Preservation #Conservation #books #Quotes #Attitude #Character #Catastrophe #Spirit #Ethics #Morality #Words To Live By #Resiliency #Gumption

[sensible-tips]

Mindful Monday: Community Resiliency

Community resilience is "the ability [for communities] to prepare for anticipated hazards, adapt to changing conditions, and withstand and recover rapidly from disruptions." (NIST.gov)

How do you feel about your community? Are there areas of opportunities? What can be done to strengthen its resiliency?

#FTM #F2M #trans masculine #trans masc #trans man #transgender man #non binary #binary #genderqueer #genderfluid #demiboy #agender #bigender #trans community #transgender community #resiliency #stronger communities #FTM wellness #Mindful Monday #sensible-tips

[drasadonbrown]

"The sky is not falling and life will return to normal." Asa Don Brown As a person, I have had to learn over the span of my life not to allow the fears, the stresses, nor the worries to take complete and utter control of my life. It's truly about living each and every single moment of our lives. It is indeed living in that mindset of Carpe Diem!  http://bridge-global.com

#life #falling #sky #normal #anxieties #stress #fears #phobias #lessons #freedom #resilient #resiliency #ability #overcome #selfesteem #selfworth #perception #worldview #bridgeglobal #bridge #asadonbrown

#life #falling #sky #normal #anxieties #stress #fears #phobias #lessons #freedom #resilient #resiliency #ability #overcome #selfesteem #selfworth #perception #worldview #bridge global #bridge #Asa Don Brown #self esteem #self worth #appreciation #acceptance #approval #love #unconditional love #unconditional acceptance #patience

[thenewenglandscholar]

I used to be the girl that measured her self worth by whether the airbag sensor indicated I weighed enough to be sitting in the passenger’s seat or not. 

I used to be the girl that had to fit all of her fingers around her upper arm comfortably to feel validated. 

I was the girl that made excuses for the meals I had eaten, or not eaten for that matter.

I was the girl that refused to raise her voice, for fear of being portrayed as ‘too much.’ 

The girl I was led to me missing out on my sophomore year of high school.

The girl I was missed out on friendships and relationships.

The girl I was left me feeling abandoned, disheartened, and insecure with every ounce of my being.

Now the woman I’ve become doesn’t listen when others tell her she can’t do something.

The woman I’ve become shows up for herself every single day, despite how heavy life feels.

The woman I’ve become appreciates her flaws and imperfections, and recognizes that the journey has created a resiliency like no other.

I am the woman I always dreamt of becoming, and I can now look back and appreciate the challenges and heartbreaks that have led me to where I am today.

I am exactly where I need to be, flaws and all. I am beautiful. I am kind. I am loving. 

#me #thenewenglandscholar #journey #confidence #you can do hard things #personal #growth #strength #resiliency #perseverance #motivation #inpsiration #just do it #thoughts #my thoughts #words #ed #ed recovery #ed awareness #self growth #self love

[lasteveharvesting]

#clothdiaperlife

#cloth diaper #lasteveharvesting #organic #permaculture #veganfood #live simply #green #primitive #love #homesteading #prepper #resiliency #deep ecology #natural farming #farming #raisingresilientkids #children of god #reformed #christ is king #jesusislord #saved #faith in god

[unholyhymns]

absolutely smitten with a wasp that crawled onto me the other day that had lost both of its wings but still insisted on exploring my balcony garden. i tried to put it on the flower patch safely located on the ground near the side of the apartment. he was back on my balcony the next day, and then promptly fell off. and was... back again shortly afterwards

#resiliency #i left him to it because clearly he wanted to be there #i will admit to being very charmed by it