#lit

[mournfulroses]

Henry Miller, from a letter featured in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

[thoughtkick]

Never discredit your gut instinct. You are not paranoid. Your body can pick up on bad vibrations. If something deep inside of you says something is not right about a person or situation, trust it.

Simple Reminders

[marandsviet]

"Love speaks louder in silence than in endless promises."

[khachkars]

The Hurting Kind - Ada Limón

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Word List: Psychology

more psychological concepts as reference for your poem/story

Absent grief - a form of complicated grief in which a person shows no, or only a few, signs of distress about the death of a loved one. This pattern of grief is thought to be an impaired response resulting from denial or avoidance of the emotional realities of the loss.

Being love - (or B-love) in Abraham Maslow’s humanistic psychology, a form of love characterized by mutuality, genuine concern for another’s welfare and pleasure, and reduced dependency, selfishness, and jealousy. B-love is one of the qualities Maslow ascribes to self-actualizers.

Cyclopean eye - a theoretical eye, located on the midline between the real eyes, that has access to the functions of both eyes and is used in descriptions of space perception and eye movements.

Dream ego - in the analytic psychology of Carl Jung, a fragment of the conscious ego that is active during the dream state.

Epiphany - a sudden perception of the essential nature of oneself, others, or reality.

Family mythology - the shared stories, norms, and beliefs within a family system. The mythology can be used to deny trauma or pathology within the family or to ascribe meaning to events in ways that suggest their inevitability or importance.

Guilt culture - a trend or organizing principle in a society characterized by the use of guilt to promote socially acceptable behavior. Guilt cultures emphasize both self-control in the face of temptation and self-initiated responsibility for one’s actions if transgressions should occur.

Hedonic treadmill - a metaphor for a hypothesis proposing that people’s happiness tends to return to a preexisting baseline level after positive or negative life events have occurred. According to this concept, positive and negative events may produce short-term shifts in mood, but these shifts tend to erode in a relatively brief period of time. This process of adaptation is thought to be responsible for the persistence of mood states over time, often in the face of considerable efforts to change them. Although there is good evidence for this hypothesis, research has demonstrated that people do not always return to baseline after the occurrence of mood-changing events.

Jactitation - (or jactation) extreme restlessness marked by frequent movements and tossing about.

Leaving the field - the act of removing oneself from a situation when confronted with seemingly insurmountable obstacles, insoluble conflicts, or intensely frustrating problems. It may involve physical withdrawal, escape into psychogenic illness, or some other behavior, such as distraction or changing the subject during a conversation.

Source ⚜ More: Notes & References ⚜ Part 1 2 3 ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

[thepersonalquotes]

[feelingsoftheday]

i just want to be happy bro. not hurt, not confused, not stressed, not used.. just happy

[zorya-reads]

Guys, I found Kaz's Christmas Tree.

Corvid Christmas tree. Simple, but beautiful.

[mournfulroses]

Mary Oliver, from a poem titled "Catbird," featured in Devotions: Selected Poems

[thoughtkick]

Don’t forget that you’re human. It’s ok to have a meltdown. Just don’t unpack and live there. Cry it out and then refocus on where you are headed.

Unknown

[feelingsoftheday]

trust your guts. you ain’t feeling that way for no reason

[gingergofastboatsmojito]

If that extension wasn't granted imma riot!

[mqmotivate]

Be her peace, she's already an overthinker.

[emotionalwords]

i’m such a “i want your attention” but “won’t bother you” kinda person

[sleeplessv0id]

what doesn't kill you makes you weird at intimacy