Robin Grier

So what happens if the court finds Maduro not guilty? Does he just awkwardly get deported back to Venezuela and we all forget this ever happened?

Words to live by today—and every day.

Seen on Slack.

@FallenRockstars More like slow and surly

Urgent care is a very funny name for it because they do not treat you with any urgency nor do they care

cartoon of the day

Apparently it is once again time to bring back the lesson on tariffs from Ferris Bueller

@scottdomes Love this!

one perspective that’s been helpful for me: one of my purposes in life is to care for & heal the hurt/scared parts of me and the way I can do that is by connecting with them and giving them love, warmth, and curiosity it’s actually easiest to connect with my parts in situations that are slightly outside my comfort zone: when those parts start to come to the surface if I’m too far outside my comfort zone, I don’t have the capacity to meet my parts with love; but just a biiitt outside my comfort, and I can both feel them and give them that loving curiosity therefore… it makes sense for me to live my life seeking out moderate challenge, transforming my relationship to my fear as I go which is also a really satisfying way to live life, correlated with all sorts of external success but the important thing is that I’m approaching it from the inside out: any external success is a side effect of me seeking greater connection & love within myself I’m not trying to “fix” myself or force myself to succeed or make myself do hard things in some form of self-punishment… it all just flows from a desire to take care of what’s within me which feels much more peaceful and exciting 🌒

@su_dreams Beautiful

I keep finding this tension between the world's speed and life's natural pace. How emails demand immediate response while trees take decades to reach their height, how notifications buzz while mushrooms slowly thread their way through dark soil. Something in us knows this slower rhythm—you can feel it in your bones on quiet mornings, in those rare moments when you forget to rush. Maybe urgency isn't a virtue but a forgetting of what we already know about time.

@su_dreams Beautiful!

There's an ache I feel in watching someone struggle to love themselves - that sacred moment when I see so clearly their light, their worth, their beautiful complexity, while they remain caught in patterns of self-judgment. I've sat with this puzzle countless times, both in my own heart and with dear ones I care for deeply, and lately I'm understanding something deeper: perhaps the difficulty isn't in the loving itself, but in the feeling that it's not safe to love ourselves. Think about it - our nervous systems are exquisitely tuned survival instruments. They remember everything: the subtle tightening in a parent's face when we showed too much joy, the withdrawn attention when we weren't "good enough," the implicit messages that our worth was tied to our achievements. If loving ourselves once led to disconnection or punishment, our bodies learned that self-love equals danger. It's a brutal equation our systems internalized: be small to stay connected, dim your light to keep others comfortable, achieve endlessly to earn the right to exist. We learned to make ourselves the problem because sometimes that felt safer than facing the wounds in our family systems, in our relationships, in the very fabric of our early world. After all, if I'm the problem, I have some control - I can try to fix myself. But if the problem lies in the system that was supposed to protect me? That's an existential terror too vast for a young psyche to hold. So we build elaborate internal architectures to maintain these early adaptations. We create impossible standards for self-love: I'll love myself when I achieve this goal, when I fix this flaw, when I become this ideal version of myself that's always just out of reach. It's not that we don't want to love ourselves - it's that some part of us believes our survival depends on not doing so. You might be wondering: How do we begin to unravel these deeply woven patterns? That's a journey that deserves its own exploration, one I hope to post about soon. But for now, let this understanding be an invitation to breathe a little easier. To recognize that your struggle with self-love isn't a personal failing, but a testament to how hard your system has worked to keep you safe and connected.

@su_dreams Wow so good!

When we talk about boundaries, we often focus on the lines we draw with others but rarely discuss the boundaries we need with our own expectations. Notice how often you violate your own edges - pushing past fatigue, ignoring intuitive hits, dismissing the subtle ways your body signals 'enough.' The first boundary to master is the one between who you are and who you think you should be.

@MariaLuckyxo @Theholisticpsyc Thank you for this. So refreshing and well written. I’ve always had this trouble too with the advice to become like a grey rock so they don’t pick on me. That’s so damaging to your self worth. And it doesn’t fundamentally change anything.

I see this so differently. Confronting an emotionally immature person doesn't mean you're trying to change them or parent them. My life was a disaster when I let everything go & consistently chose non-confrontation. I was a nervous wreck & my anxiety was sky-high. Things bothered me, I was festering with anger & resentment & people's behaviour ALWAYS got worse the more I chose to let it go. I started to study healthy communication and when I stumbled on the following quote it changed how I view the purpose of communication. 👇 "Communication isn't for the other person. It isn't to change them but for you speak up, for you to speak directly to them and for you to say what you presently feel." Keeping things in was killing me. Fake 'letting it go' was causing severe rumination and the part few people want to genuinely acknowledge, many people do in fact watch their mouth when confronted. Lots of passive aggressive people only say things specifically because their target has/will remain silent. They need to be checked. Once I stopped being an easy target, I simply wasn't on their radar to pick on. They knew if they started with me, I would finish it and it wouldn't be an enjoyable experience for them. I don't believe the purpose of healing, growth & high levels of self-actualization is to become a Buddha. I'm a human being who wants to get better at life and enjoy my time here. I've experienced enough pain and becoming Jesus or God like isn't what I'm striving for. You don't have more dignity because you stay silent. You aren't the bigger or better person because you let them say whatever they want. Your nervous system isn't calm because you keep those insults, jabs & cruel remarks to yourself & you let them slide. They effect you, deeply. Their is nuance to the conversation around when to walk away (for your safety) and when to confront (also for safety) Most people immersed in trauma twitter have experienced being the prey. Learning to spot & handle predators is an important life skill in your recovery. It was in mine. It is true that not everyone and not everything is worth confronting but equally as important is learning when confronting things and people head on is exactly what needs to be done.

The best way to deal with emotional immaturity is no response. To stay grounded, calm, and to recognize it’s not your responsibility to raise anyone else.

@thiswomanlifts Definitely C!!

A. NO EXCUSES. B. If you wait until you're less busy to start that means you'll quit as soon as you're busy again. C. Shit that sounds really tough. Just get through this next bit and we can pick back up as soon as you're ready.

A new client, Charlotte, started training with me. We did Week 1. She missed Week 2 because her son was ill. Turned out it was a ruptured appendix, so she'll likely miss Week 3 and Week 4 too. Question: Which of the following is an appropriate thing to say in these circumstances?

@su_dreams Your posts are so beautiful. Thank you for sharing. I look forward to them

We think of creativity as brushstrokes and blank pages, but it's really about the art of living. It's in how you make your coffee in the morning, how you choose which emails deserve your energy, how you arrange the furniture to let in more light. It's in the small choices that shape your days and the big decisions that alter your path. The most fascinating creative project isn't hanging in a gallery – it's the way you're constantly rewriting, rearranging, and reimagining your own existence.

@scottdomes Love this. On what platform did you find this excerpt?

"you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves"

As per my previous tablet…

@scottdomes Wow this is just exactly what I needed to read. Thanks once again for your beautiful words.

“stop overthinking” it’s probably more useful to talk about enjoying & allowing overthinking let your mind follow a million different threads, weaving this way and that and while all that is happening, try to bring an attitude of appreciation & awe to the experience notice how hard your mind is working, how earnestly it is trying to “solve” your life and give it full space & permission to do so the end result will be… the overthinking just dissolves the underlying emotions feel heard & recognized, and so they can relax or… if you can’t find that appreciation & awe… what’s in the way? what is causing you to be at war with your own mind? what part of you violently protests your own attempts to keep yourself safe? where does that live in your body? what does it need? your mind is not the enemy. your patterns are not the enemy. nothing is… so you can meet it all with curiosity and love, and see what happens next 🪷

Ask any woman over 25 if it's unspoken

@lauren_wilford This is tremendous. Thank you! Just what I needed to read today.

you can do a lot if you stop spending any energy berating yourself about (or justifying) why you haven’t done it yet. guilt (and the attendant defensiveness) is an energy leak