Dr. Sara A. Hosn

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Start with radically accepting this message and then, one step at a time, make your way through…hell 🙏🏼 you deserve the peace of healing!

"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

How’s this for a dialectic! I hope you realize the truth in this diagram. May you NOT stop at the hard and may you be mindful and celebrate the heck out of the joy of the beautiful 🙏🏼🙌🏻
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When you grow up, all you ever do is leave. You leave people, situations, and places. You often wonder where home is because you always feel like a fish out of water wherever you go. You make a home for yourself in the city. You decorate it with plants, posters of a treasured rock band, and furniture that you got from the flea market. Sometimes, it gets awfully quiet; other times, it's filled with the voices of your new favourite people. When it gets too silent, you call your Mother 1200 miles away and ask her about her day. You like to listen to her sometimes, but when she asks about yours, you gabble and say you're okay and then bid goodbye. You don't want to trouble her with your issues. It never completely feels like home because you are always missing something—your school friends, the old town roads, your Grandma's pickles, your cousins, evening drives, the smell of your room, and your family.

And when you return to your hometown, you miss the comfort of living in your own place, Sunday brunches, your new friends, going on random trips, meeting strangers, and the view from your balcony. The silence that used to bother you in your new home is something that you crave when you return. You realise that this will never be over, the way that you are feeling. Maybe, you will get used to it when you get older. But right now, you are in your 20s, and life is already hard. And no matter how much you want to feel at home, you often end up missing things you're far away from.

You think that maybe the romantics are right. Maybe, you will find home in some other person, a better half. But the truth is that you will find a piece of you in every place you have ever been, in every person you have ever loved. You paint your nails the way that senior in your school did when you were 12 years old. And there's an album in the corner of your room that your first kiss suggested for you to listen to, and that's how you discovered your favourite rock band. You find your habits lingering in the way your brother arranges his books—separating hardcovers from paperbacks and organising them by colour. Nobody does that, you think.

You realise that blueberry yogurt on toast and little flowers of butter and orange jam isn't your recipe; it's the way your Mother used to make toast for you when you were five. You notice that your best friend still plays your road trip playlist when she drives, and you cook chicken the same way your roommate in college taught you. You share your habit of clicking pictures of flowers by the roads with your Dad, and like your ex, you always check traffic on maps before leaving. Even if you don't talk to them anymore, you will always have tenderness in your heart for people. You will realise that so much of them is you, and so much of you is them.

You realise that's why you can never feel completely at home because a part of your heart is always wandering in some other memory, in a different place that you used to call home. Your love spreads endlessly, and you realise that this is what happens when you have the joy of experiencing so many different kinds of loves and friendships. As you mature, you learn that departing isn't merely about leaving; instead, it's about carrying a piece of others with you and leaving a part of yourself behind. It transforms you into a magnificent collage, a gem woven from the threads of all those you've loved, of all those you are ever going to love.

And someday, that feeling will be home enough.

- Rae Pathak, friday reminders.
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Illustration by Maëlys Chay (maelyschay)
Insp Miriam Adeney

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Leave the circus 🙏🏼

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"new normal".

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My wish for you
Is that you continue
Continue
To be who and how you are
To astonish a mean world
With your acts of kindness
Continue
To allow humor to lighten the burden
Of your tender heart
Continue
In a society dark with cruelty
To let the people hear the grandeur
Of God in the peals of your laughter
Continue
To let your eloquence
Elevate the people to heights
They had only imagined
Continue
To remind the people that
Each is as good as the other
And that no one is beneath
Nor above you
Continue
To remember your own young years
And look with favor upon the lost
And the least and the lonely
Continue
To put the mantle of your protection
Around the bodies of
The young and defenseless
Continue
To take the hand of the despised
And diseased and walk proudly with them
In the high street
Some might see you and
Be encouraged to do likewise
Continue
To plant a public kiss of concern
On the cheek of the sick
And the aged and infirm
And count that as a
Natural action to be expected
Continue
To let gratitude be the pillow
Upon which you kneel to
Say your nightly prayer
And let faith be the bridge
You build to overcome evil
And welcome good
Continue
To ignore no vision
Which comes to enlarge your range
And increase your spirit
Continue
To dare to love deeply
And risk everything
For the good thing
Continue
To float
Happily in the sea of infinite substance
Which set aside riches for you
Before you had a name
Continue
And by doing so
You and your work
Will be able to continue
Eternally. ~Maya Angelou

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(Art: Photograph by Jack Sotomayor)

The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to. ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

(Book: On Grief and Grieving https://amzn.to/3Satih0)

(Art: Photograph by Man Ray)

May we all remember this 🙏🏼

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.
― Rumi

You don’t have to walk alone…

You don’t have to carry your grief alone. Give yourself the space to grieve and connect with other su***de loss survivors who understand what you’ve been through. Sign up for a near you: afsp.org/survivorday

Stay curious ❤️🙏🏼

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A highly recommended read. As the phenomenal scholar and psychotherapist Irvin Yalom has always said, the confrontation with the idea of death can lead us to build more meaningful lives. Even though the physicality of death destroys all of us, the thought of it can save us. Rebuilding our idea of a life worth living can start when we confront our own mortality, this is one of the basic principles of existential philosophy and existential psychotherapy.

How the Contemplation of Death Can Lead to Meaning in Life It’s possible to live a more meaningful life in the shadow of death.

I hope you live louder 🙏🏼

🙏🏼 that’s how the light gets in.

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“Grief never ends but it changes”, it’s a journey with many trials and tribulations…in a lot of ways, it’s also a final opportunity for the expression of love. We only grieve what once brought us abundant love and joy. To everyone currently traveling the path, may you remember to travel it with patience and radical self-compassion ❤️🙏🏼

Following the recent and sudden unexpected passing of my dear brother who created and managed this page. I have decided to carry on this account and manage it on behalf of him as a tribute to him as well as carrying on his legacy as this page meant so much to him - especially to all of the loyal followers who found great comfort and inspiration on his positive posts. Thank you for your loyalty towards Dean and this page which meant so much to him. I'll do my very best to make my brother proud. Thank you Lloyd Hollett.

I hope you listen closely to this 🙏🏼

So worth it! This hits close to home…I hope this message finds all those who may need to hear it ❤️

The party was worth it. ❤️ ~ Nanea

Surf the waves, ride out the storm 🙏🏼❤️

“"An emotion is... just a small part of your whole being. An emotion comes, stays for a while, and goes away, just like a storm. If you’re aware of that, you won’t be afraid of your emotions." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"An emotion is only an emotion. It’s just a small part of your whole being. You are much more than your emotion. An emotion comes, stays for a while, and goes away, just like a storm. If you’re aware of that, you won’t be afraid of your emotions."

~Thich Nhat Hanh~

For those of you who may need this right now…Sleeping difficulties are trans diagnostic and one of the most common reasons people seek out treatment nowadays!

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