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This website serves as a record of what I have learned and am learning. It is a compilation of my thoughts and a resource of texts and people that have inspired or changed me in some way.
I truly believe that the choices that we make matter.
This is my attempt to figure out what choices we can make to bring about a better world.
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Trustful parenting.
“You are competent. You have eyes and a brain and can figure things out. You know your abilities and limitations. Through your self-directed play and exploration you will learn what you need to know. Your needs are valued. Your opinions count. You are responsible for your own mistakes and can be trusted to learn from them. Social life is not the pitting of will against will, but the helping of one another so all can have what they need and most desire. We are with you, not against you.”
–Peter Gray, Ph.D., from The Many Shades of Fear-Based Parenting
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Let learners lead the learning.
“We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach it to them, but by making the world, as far as we can, accessible to them, paying serious attention to what they do, answering their questions — if they have any — and helping them explore the things they are most interested in.”
― John Holt
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From surviving to thriving.
“Most of my clients experience noticeable relief when I explain Complex PTSD to them. The diagnosis resonates deeply with their intuitive understanding of their suffering. When they recognize that their sense of overwhelm initially arose as a normal instinctual response to their traumatic circumstances, they begin to shed the belief that they are crazy, hopelessly oversensitive, and/or incurably defective.”
― Pete Walker, CPTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
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Addressing pain – feel for the place that hurts.
“It helps to know that trigger points form in specific places, where the motor nerve comes into the muscle to tell the muscle to do its job. This location is not always tender. It hurts only when a trigger point is present, and then only when pressed on. So, when practicing self-applied trigger point massage, you don’t have to go by what your fingers palpate—feel for the place that hurts.”
― Clair Davies, The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief
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Time to listen to nature.
“Industrial agriculture, built according to the single standard of productivity, has dealt with nature, including human nature, in the manner of a monologist or an orator. It has not asked for anything, or waited to hear any response. It has told nature what it wanted, and in various clever ways has taken what it wanted. And since it proposed no limit on its wants, exhaustion has been its inevitable and foreseeable result. This, clearly, is a dictatorial or totalitarian form of behavior, and it is as totalitarian in its use of people as it is in its use of nature. Its connections to the world and to humans and the other creatures become more and more abstract, as its economy, its authority, and its power become more and more centralized.”
― Wendell Berry, Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
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We are responsible for the earth.
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.
― Cree Indian Proverb
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