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04/10/2025

An 85-year Harvard study reveals that quality relationships are the greatest predictor of long-term health and happiness. Researchers found that individuals with strong personal connections were not only happier but also lived longer and enjoyed better overall health.​

In a world that often prioritizes career success and material wealth, this study highlights the profound impact of nurturing meaningful relationships. Whether it’s family, close friends, or a supportive community, these bonds provide emotional support, reduce stress, and enhance our sense of belonging.​

So, let’s invest time and energy into the relationships that matter most. After all, our connections are the foundation of a fulfilling and healthy life.​

12/25/2023

A few of our all time favorite December posts from .texts about and how to support someone this holiday season 👏🏾 So often we struggle with what to say someone or forget that holidays are full of all the moments that will never be shared again which brings up a lot of mixed emotions. This year .texts had a which is a great guide for every holiday or marker of time your friend, co-worker or loved one may be navigating - great tips on how to support them. If you have more, share here!

12/13/2023

We had a great time supporting Build Up community talking about embodied somatic nd learning experiences in peacebuilding!

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12/03/2023

We love these reflections from .i.c_the_life_student & from our sessions at on and resilience!

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“Today at the Build Peace conference I had a yoga session for peacebuilding and am learning that inner peace enables one to share peace with others. You cannot build peace with a migraine, when your spirit is not at peace, your whole body is not at optimum, even the quality of peace is hindered. I love the idea of cultivating it from within and sharing it with-out!! Let’s Build Peace”

10/20/2023

In these times we may all feel deep hopeless, physically or emotionally💔 seeing images and stories of the most horrific nature, of humanity at it’s worst. We may feel or at leaders at what is happening and what has happened to innocent people. We want to cry, want to scream, want to rage, want to curl up in bed, seek to channel our emotions into action or numb it away. We may feel immense guilt that we have to ability to go about our normal life while others face unimaginable horrors. All these reactions (and so many more) are normal.

We offer today the only thing we have been able to sit with and to hold space with, which is the Loving Kindness Meditation and a wish for each person, every where to be safe, to be healthy, to be happy, and to live a life of ease. We know that is an aspiration to hold a 🕯️ in our hearts for, but 🕊️ is what we can wish for, and the shared of all of us for each other 🌍

Practice: find a place to sit or lay, option to being palm to heart and abdomen, option to light a 🕯️ Repeat each phrase in your mind x 2 or out loud and notice how your body feels those words, where it does, and allow any emotions that are present to just be there (if you want add a section of “may I”) - remember these are aspirational. Picture the people you want to offer this to and then start:

• May you be healthy
• May you be happy
• May you be safe, may you be safe
• May you live a life of ease

Now visualize the collective “we” that includes the “you” and the “I”

• May we be healthy
• May we be happy
• May we be safe, may we be safe
• May we live a life of ease

Say outloud: May all beings everywhere be happy and free



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For the evidence, see Klimecki and Singer on empathic distress fatigue—and the new emotion regulation meta-analysis by Kampf, Adam, Rohr, Exner & Wieck. I also learned a lot from Paul Bloom’s provocative book Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

09/29/2023

Some beautiful reflections from about how our creativity or our ability to create in personal or professional life is often heavily impacted by if our nervous system is regulated or dysregulated. Check out these examples

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As humans, we are all creative beings.

You might not consider yourself “a creative,” but creativity absolutely plays a role in all of our lives.

It is the experience of communing with our Truest Self (you may call that your Soul) and the Universe (Energy/Love/God/Flow) in a way that makes us come fully alive and allows us to get to know parts of ourselves and our world. It makes us feel free.

Here are just a few examples:

💫 Noticing the beauty in nature around you
💫 Writing in any form
💫 Dancing or moving your body
💫 Reading and bringing that world to life in your mind/body
💫 Gardening
💫 Decorating your home
💫 Cooking
💫 Letting your clothing be an expression of self

And in so many other areas, too! You might even be tapping into your creativity on a daily basis without even realizing!

But what often happens when we set out to do a “creative task,” whether that’s writing a book, thinking about something to post on social media, choosing what to wear, or anything in between, is that we tend to be more focused on the outcome rather than the experience. This will leave us feeling like we have to get it “right” which will often send us into dysregulation.

When we try to access our creativity from a place of dysregulation, it can leave us feeling frustrated, disappointed, overly-critical, depressed, anxious, stuck, trapped, or any other number of experiences (swipe through for examples!).

Our work is to SHOW, not simply tell, our nervous systems that we’re safe to embody our creativity. We do that by using regulating resources that show our protective parts the coast is clear and that we’re safe to let go and be present to what wants to unfold.

It’s so possible to change your experience and step into the life you desire, my friend.

With kindness,
Sarah

09/05/2023

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Safety is cultivated, it’s not proclaimed.

We cultivate safety for others by being genuinely interested in what helps someone feel safe, and then responding and adjusting accordingly in real time.

We cultivate safety for others by acknowledging that creating safety is an ongoing process that requires attuned care and attention, and that it’s not something automatically created or maintained by policies, procedures, or intentions alone.

We cultivate safety for others by letting THEM be the ones who decide whether they feel safe, instead of announcing that safety is there for the taking.

We cultivate safety for others by understanding that safety requires trust, that trust is earned over time, and that those who’ve suffered trauma may need much more time to earn trust than those who haven’t.

We cultivate safety for others by seeing that what helps others feel safe is VERY individual, and that the only way to get to know those needs is by actually getting to know the individuals the space is for.

I’ve personally never once been put at ease by being told “This is a safe space,” but I HAVE felt safe in spaces where others show up with a clear understanding of how they’re actually attempting to create safety, where my voice and experience are actually valued, and where rupture, miscommunication, and misattunement are regularly acknowledged and repaired.

What does it take to help make a space feel safe for you?✨

07/28/2023

Thanks .christina_ for this collection of funny tweets to send us into the weekend 🙌🏾

07/12/2023

What a wonderful opportunity we had this week to talk about mental health and psychosocial support, and with staff working with conflict affected communities across africa and asia this week at Barcelona International Peace Center 📸.e.andrade with Fatuma Ibrahim this week in regulation

06/25/2023

Do you try to hold back tears? Do you try to stop someone else when they’re crying because you feel uncomfortable? What is crying really? We love this post from .holistic.psychologist

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Let’s have an open conversation about crying in the comments. Are you comfortable doing it? How do you feel after? How do you react when other people cry?

06/18/2023

Beautiful opportunities to engage with a friend who has lost their father on from .texts is ever present on markers of time like birthdays, anniversaries, holidays and days like Father’s Day. How to show up and be a friend to those dealing with and can feel daunting which is why we love these beautiful options they put together