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#YESquotes: #ActiveHope / #JoannaMacy - "A newspaper photo viewed thru a magnifying glass may appear only as tiny dots. When it seems as if our #lives & #choices are like those dots, it can be difficult to recognize their contribution to a bigger picture of #change.” #TheGreatTurning bit.ly/408xAc3
July 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
#YESquotes - Practicing The #PowerOfNow / #EckhartTolle - “The beginning of #freedom is the realization that you are not 'the #thinker.' The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of #consciousness becomes activated...you begin to #awaken." #SelfAwareness #Presence bit.ly/4lFgMSD
July 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
#YESquotes: Dark Nights of the Soul / Thomas Moore - "No one gives you a sense of #security. You have to get it for yourself, mainly by living your own life w/ enthusiasm & by learning to #loveyourself ...probably thru a real #darknightofthesoul." #mentalhealth #resilience #shadowwork bit.ly/45IvROk
June 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
#YesQuotes: Every Day is a Gift/Sen. Tammy Duckworth - "“The boot the crew gave me [is] a reminder not of what I lost in Iraq, but of what I gained from my experiences there...the camaraderie, mission, & sense of purpose I share w/ my fellow Soldiers..... bit.ly/4fqSnhp
July 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
#YESquotes: Present Moment, Wonderful Moment/Thich Nhat Hanh - " Sometimes our #body is here but our #mind is lost in the past or in the future... If we practice the [Buddha's] teaching on how to #breathe #mindfully, we bring mind & body together, & they become one again." #BeHereNow bit.ly/3FL8Rnm
June 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
#YESquotes We Have Always Been Here/Samra Habib: "...As a #woman in this world it’s important to take up #space and make yourself heard, even if it intimidates and offends powerful men.” #Inclusion #Equality bit.ly/4dNgKF3
Visit LIVEdammit's #Pride bookshelf this month! bit.ly/3T5owRc
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
A Queer Muslim Memoir
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June 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
#YESquotes: Demystifying Disability/Emily Ladau - "It's important to remember that if you've met one disabled person, you've met one disabled person. If you have a disability, the only disability experience you're an expert on is your own." #DisabilityPride #OwnVoices bit.ly/45KMjgZ
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
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July 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"If you struggle to make #goodhabits stick, to find consistency, & to actually #feelgood in the process, you're not alone...I was you. But here's what I want you to know.
You are not failing. You are not a #failure." ~The Feel Good Effect/Robyn Conley Downs #selfcompassion #YESquotes bit.ly/4mWwSYr
The Feel Good Effect: Reclaim Your Wellness by Finding Small Shifts that Create Big Change
Reclaim Your Wellness by Finding Small Shifts that Create Big Change
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August 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"If you...cannot take on as much as someone else, that does not make you either #weak or #crazy. You just have to prepare differently & live your life unapologetically for you." The Unapologetic Guide to #BlackMentalHealth /Rheeda Walker Ph.D #OwnYourStory #BanishStigma #YESquotes bit.ly/4fGGCDH
August 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"You are worthy of releasing the #hustle that has overtaken you & convinced you that you are supposed to be someone other than who you are at this point in your life. You are #worthy, period." Hustle, Flow, or Let It Go?/Portia Preston
#shame-freewellness #honoryourreality #YESquotes
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August 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
#YESquotes: The #Work #Wellness Deck / Landra Eliopoulos - "To thrive @ work, it's crucial for us to adopt tools & practices to #managestress, be more #present, #communicate effectively, #resolveconflict, & navigate the waters of change & uncertainty." #EQ #mentalhealth #mindfulwork
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August 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
August is #NationalWellnessMonth - #YESquotes will be selected from the #LIVEdammit bookshelves. Come & explore the breadth of our offerings, w/ #inspiration, #challenge, & grist for #growth & #healing! Your purchases subsidize #indiebooksellers - you can specify which. #BookLovers bit.ly/3HfIZjP
August 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
#YESquotes: The Other Side of #Sadness /George A. Bonanno- "Most #bereaved people get better on their own, w/o any kind of professnl help. They may be deeply saddened, they may feel adrift...but their life eventually finds its way again, oft more easily than they thought possible." bit.ly/45dELBC
July 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
#YESquotes: Atlas of the Heart / Brené Brown - “When I’m prioritizing being liked over being free, I was much sweeter but less #authentic. Now I’m kinder and less judgmental. But also firmer and more solid. Occasionally salty.” #TrueToSelf #SelfRespect #Boundaries #Empowered bit.ly/4l2arzs
July 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
YESquotes: Beyond #Borderline / John G. Gunderson - "Interestingly, [ #BPD] is one of the few psychiatric illnesses that is not lifelong, with remission likely and relapses rare.” #MentalHealthAwareness #EndStigma #ChangeTheNarrative
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Beyond Borderline: True Stories of Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
True Stories of Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
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July 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
#YESquotes: Writing For Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Journey / Deena Metzger - “If the #journal is the jumble of raw material—blood, bones, sinews—and a #poem is the cell, the impulse, the #story is the entire animal.” #WriteToHeal #CreativeJourney #WholeStory bit.ly/45jXoou
Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Journey
Discovering the Story of Your Life's Journey
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July 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#YESquotes: An Unquiet Mind/Kay Redfield Jamison - “We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life & often overwhelming forces w/in our minds. In whatever way we do this... we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime.” #bipolar #MentalHealth #Resilience bit.ly/4lFqowV
July 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
#YESquotes: The #WildRemedy/ Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social - "Simply getting #outside of the house & seeing the blackthorns & lime tree outside our cottage induces a response in me that I can only describe as a #neuronal sigh of relief...simultaneously soothing & curative." bit.ly/4m5fCjk
The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us - A Diary
How Nature Mends Us - A Diary
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July 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
#YESquotes: Love from Heaven: Practicing #Compassion for Yourself & Others/Lorna Byrne - "The #angels keep showing me how little #love most ppl feel for themselves & as a result, how little love there really is in our lives--& how much more there could be." #LoveHeals #SelfCompassion bit.ly/4kOV5hR
July 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
#YESquotes: Thinking in Pictures: My Life with #Autism /Temple Grandin - “I replaced #emotionalcomplexity w/ visual & intellectual complexity. I questioned everything & looked to logic, science, & intellect for answers.....More knowledge makes me act more normal.” #Neurodiversity bit.ly/40RFBCw
July 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
#YESquotes: #Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind/Theodore Roszak- "Creation of urban intellect intended to heal urban angst, modern #psychotherapy ..never [reached] beyond family & society to address the nonhuman habitat that..engulfs the tiny psychic island" #Ecomind bit.ly/46Kmqy7
July 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
#YESquotes: All Tangled Up In #Autism & #ChronicIllness/ Charli Clement- " #Self-diagnosis is seen as valid w/in the autistic & #disabled communities due to the barriers marginalized ppl..face while seeking prof. dx, ranging fr. financial..to racial or gender-based privilege." #Access bit.ly/4lWOO4u
July 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
#YESquotes: #GerardManleyHopkins: the Major Works -
"My own heart let me more have pity on; let
Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,
Charitable; not live this tormented mind
With this tormented mind tormenting yet."
#SelfCompassion #HealingWords #MentalHealth #EmotionalResilience
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Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works
Check out Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works - This authoritative edition brings together all of Hopkins's poetry and a generous selection of his prose writings to explore the essence of his work ...
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July 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
#YESquotes: Truth Or Dare/Starhawk - "We also have a responsibility not to let ourselves be #judged. We don't have to accept others' evaluations of our #worth, [or] believe in their #superiority ...we can #stopthegame by refusing to play our expected part." #ReclaimOurWorth bit.ly/3U1WlDg
July 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
#YESquotes: Sitting Pretty/Rebekah Taussig - “The goal is not to avoid falling or needing #help. The goal is to be seen, asked, heard, believed, valued as we are, allowed to exist in these exact bodies, invited to the party, & encouraged to dance however we want to.” #InclusionMatters bit.ly/44O0yzE
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
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July 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM