‘Bookmark’ this tweet for threads on ‘clarity’ for ‘integrity’ (i.e. integration). I wrote some. The rest are classics: Carl Sagan, Oliver Sacks, Gabor Maté, Sir Ken Robinson, Sadhguru, Kristen Neff and Brené Brown. They go perfect together. Enjoy.👇🏼#Justice4Australia#Auspol
Healing Trauma: “The prevailing brain-disease model overlooks four fundamental truths: (1) our capacity to destroy one another is matched by our capacity to heal one another. Restoring relationships and community is central to restoring well-being; #Justice4Australia#Auspol 1/30
(2) language gives us the power to change ourselves and others by communicating our experiences, helping us to define what we know, and finding a common sense of meaning; 2/30
(3) we have the ability to regulate our own physiology, including some of the so-called involuntary functions of the body and brain, through such basic activities as breathing, moving, and touching; and 3/30
A toxic culture: Why I switched from the ‘intellect’ to ‘intelligence’? There’s a time and place for the critic. Otherwise, it’s toxic. If you people please, you’ll waste your life, others’ and the planet, for someone who cares not for this: the ‘critic’. #Justice4Australia 1/23
The critic said to me: Find highest pay job. I was a ‘permanent student’. I care ‘too much’ about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Refugees. People with a disability. My partner’s from a ‘third world country’: Is using me for money. Or get his kids to Australia. 2/23
When I worked as a disability support worker, the critic asked: why do you hang around with people who slow you down? After my first episode of psychosis, I put on 30kg from meds. The critic noted: gee you’ve had a good winter. Which I later learnt meant I was fat. 3/23
‘Self-esteem’ (special and above average): competitive, exclusive, prejudice; I must beat you to come out ‘on top’. ‘Self-compassion’ (kindness, common humanity, mindfulness): primary, inclusive, collaborative; like every child I am already ‘whole’.👇🏼 #Justice4Australia#Auspol
It’s time to strike for ‘Integrity’. A house needs it or it will collapse. A country needs it so it’s citizens can celebrate differences remaining whole and undivided. Beautifully, it is the final stage of recovering from trauma: ‘Integration’. That’s clarity.👇🏼#Justice4Australia
Can we have a National Strike for Grace, Brittany, Kate and every life the Australian Government has denied basic human rights: safety, freedom, health and wellbeing? Immediate top-down reform focused on clarity: science, compassion and action. #Justice4Australia#Auspol