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This week’s #podcast explores the issue of #loss and #grief and baby loss in #olderage for #BabyLossAwarenessWeek. #bereavement #grief
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The long shadow of loss: Reflections for #BabyLossAwarenessWeek #grief #olderage #loss #bereavement #remembrance
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Illustrated artwork by PositivelyPresent featuring six calming pastel panels with simple illustrations and hand-drawn text. Each panel offers a gentle reminder: “Don’t forget to: Keep looking up, Make time for rest, Live in the moment, Leave your comfort zone, Pay attention to beauty.” Imagery includes a bunny gazing at the stars, relaxing on a bed, sitting in the sunshine, and looking at flowers – evoking themes of pause, presence, and self-kindness.
“Joy comes to us in ordinary moments. We risk missing out when we get too busy chasing the extraordinary.” Brené Brown
You don’t have to do it all.
You don’t have to be it all.
A little pause can be everything.
🧡
#kindness #positivity #pause
Picture by PositivelyPresent
When despair for the world grows in me & I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go & lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, & the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, & I am free. (Wendell Berry)
Some peaceful thoughts for a Sunday morning x
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There’s always time to be compassionate and kind. Black writing on a white background with a green line border, a red flower and a blue flower. Picture by Luke John Matthew Arnold
“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.” Henry James
Kindness never goes out of season. Every moment is a chance to care. Compassion makes the world gentler.
#kindness #positivity
Image by lukejohnmatthewarnold
Great advice on helping someone who is grieving.
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A pale lilac and a bright purple crocus in a patch of grass and moss.
A cluster of snowballs in a patch of grass.
When there's no time left in a working week to pause, reflect, and think, and each day's packed full with tasks, surely that's actually counter-productive? Truly getting the work done also depends on space to think, time to be there for each other, and connecting as human beings.
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“Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.” Bob Kerrey Never underestimate the power of kindness. 🧡 #kindness #compassion #connection (Amazing picture by Lucy Claire illustration) Picture of a small person holding an adult hand, the small person in a green coat and the yellow boots the older taller person in a grey coat with a red scarf with a heart with the words in the background or like a shadow somebody fighting a dragon
“Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.” Bob Kerrey
Never underestimate the power of kindness. 🧡
#kindness #compassion #connection
(Amazing picture by Lucy Claire illustration)
You were never meant to carry the burden of the entire world put it down. Picture by Katie abey Black writing on a white background with multicoloured around it
“Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what’s left of you.” Katie Reed.
There’s a lot happening in the world, and it’s easy to feel the burden. Be gentle with yourself. Allow space for your own well-being. It isn’t selfish. It’s necessary. 🧡
#kindness
(Picture by Katie Abey)
This morning’s sunshine has reminded me of the word ‘philocaly’: a love of beauty, even in the smallest things.
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To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name.
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