What if everything you've been doing about stress is wrong? "So for me, the big aha moment was recognizing that joy is a wellness strategy, because when we feel joy, the scientific makeup of joy actually builds resilience. ” — Amy Leneker #stress #resilence www.bethbonness.com/podcast/amy-...

To start the new year revisit 3 of the most listened to podcasts exploring the nature of our thoughts & their ripple effects. Happy New Year! www.bethbonness.com/podcast/caro... www.bethbonness.com/podcast/dr-n... www.bethbonness.com/podcast/hrun... @hrundgunnsteins.bsky.social #podcast

#FridayReads Ever since reading Thinking in Bets, I cannot help but constantly reframe options & scenarios into probabilities - especially with my 4yr-old gdaughter. Life is more like poker than chess. Thanks Annie! @annieduke.com #bets #uncertainty #probability #bets #luk #chance #DecisionMaking

Gratitude to me feels like it’s nestled in warmth. I feel it when I hear my granddaughter say, “BB & Papa,” in her sweet breathy voice. It’s as if the words hold magic & are best used in little bits because of their power. www.bethbonness.com/blog/how-can... #gratitude @hirokoyoda.bsky.social

If you are interested in learning more about the Japanese culture, I highly recommend 8 Million Ways to Happiness. Thank you for sharing in English so those outside of Japan can gain a glimpse of what you experience every day. www.goodreads.com/review/show/... @hirokoyoda.bsky.social #gratitude

Are there any other married women who are irked by filling out their tax returns where their husband is taxpayer and we're spouse? I requested Taxpayer #1 & #2 to IRS, Congress people & tax rights/fairness org @repbonamici.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov @4taxfairness.bsky.social

Who was born on your birthday? Happy birthday Emily Dickinson & Ada Lovelace. For my poetry and math/computer loving selves. #poetry #computers #EmilyDickinson #AdaLovelace

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What does gratitude look like? "I thought I was absolutely alone, but then I realized I wasn't ... I was surrounded by a lot of lives.” 🎙️https://www.bethbonness.com/podcast/hiroko-yoda-author-of-8-milion-ways-to-happiness-what-does-gratitude-look-like @hirokoyoda.bsky.social #happiness #gratitude

Shhh it’s a secret — presents for my 3 daughters 🎁📖 Thank you Hrund for your sweet notes to them :) @hrundgunnsteins.bsky.social #HrundGunnsteinsdóttir #InnSæ #intution #daughters

Do you feel respected? Respect begins with self-respect. Before we can be there for others, we need to recognize and honor our own needs and limits. www.bethbonness.com/blog/do-you-... @leadingwithrespect.bsky.social #Respect #thoughtechoes

Appreciated reading the 1st chapter. Loved, “…maybe, in an intertwined world, the smallest changes can produce the biggest effects.” www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-entire... @brianklaas.bsky.social #Fluke #Influence #convergence #contingency

Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk - for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out Sherry Rind’s Between States of Matter "Some of it breaks and reforms like meteorites but never escapes our gravity, carrying the stories of our little eruptions and the long fall through time." #poetry

When listening to experts talk about patterns in history, invariably, I learn something that shifts my perspective. I highly recommend listening to @peteleyden.bsky.social in this @bigthink.com interview. #trends #AI #CleanEnergy #Bioengineering #DigitalGovernance bigthink.com/series/the-b...

Still remember convincing my dad to buy an Apple Lisa in the late ‘70s. He ran a construction company & bookkeeping was done on a machine the size of a small pickup truck. I said he could simplify that process. It’s all about the stories … @stevejobsarchive.bsky.social #innovation #stories

So excited for you, Katherine!!!!

What does it mean to respect yourself & others? Listen as social entrepreneur, philanthropist & author Marcy Syms shares insights from her latest book Leading with Respect. www.bethbonness.com/podcast/marc... @leadingwithrespect.bsky.social #Respect #thoughtechoes lnkd.in/gS8Y4CX4

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... #OptimismInstitute #leadingwithrespect #notlettingthebadguyswin #newbooks #marcysyms #familybusiness

On the 18th anniv of my strokes. I so appreciate this review… "This is a poetry anthology that rejects literary pretence and demands full sensory engagement." @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social #poetry #strokes thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/05/25/b...

Love these ideas

Forgot the article link: bigthink.com/neuropsych/w...

Driving back from camping in Joshua Tree & Valley of Fire catching up on @bigthink.com articles. Listened to Why Your Best Ideas Come After Your Worst by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social Loved the clown & editor imagery. Totally identify with how my writing comes to fruition. #creativity #neuroscience

Happy World Vegan Day! Whatever food you enjoy — try some vegan today :) Photos from graduation of #Rouxbe #ForksOverKnives #vegan

Privileged to read early copy of #SilentY by #KatherineBenfante. Swept away in a thought experiment that seems so absurd, yet reveals elements that brush (sometimes too closely) with undercurrents in today’s world. For lovers of Handmaid’s Tale, felt very Gilead. @kbenfante.bsky.social

Thank you Alan … I am humbled by your review. Talk about feeling seen as a poet and writer … @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/05/25/b...

“Life is an ongoing expedition into the brambled tendrilled wilderness of ourselves…”

Love that -no pun intended

"This thought echoes idea. It's really interesting. There is research to show that the beliefs you arrive at a situation with are going to influence not just your own behavior, but how other people are going to react to you.” — Josh Davis, PhD www.bethbonness.com/podcast/josh...

Announcing the 2025 #PDXBookFest author line-up. ☔📚 We will be joined by more than 80 authors to celebrate books! These authors include @staceyabrams.com, Rebecca Yarros, Nicholas Boggs, @emmadonoghue.bsky.social, @angelaflournoy.bsky.social, and @susanorlean.bsky.social More on: pdxbookfest.org

Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk - for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out Melanie Green’s A Long, Wide Stretch of Calm At the Edge of a Lake “At the shore / of silence— / what becomes / and unbecomes” The Luster of Silence “in afternoon’s / echo of lights.” #poetey

Listen as Elina Teboul invites us to redefine the traditional notions of leadership. 🎙https://www.bethbonness.com/podcast/elina-teboul-author-feminine-intelligence #thoughtechoes #feminineintelligence #leadership #consciousleadership #ElinaTeboul

“Kintsugi is a metaphor of life. It gives hope because it reminds you that your journey will be imperfect, that you will always find a solution, and you can gain experience from everything that you go through, and you will bounce back.” — Céline Santini #Kintsugi #resilence youtu.be/qAaBKCCt7xM

Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk - for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out @aveningo-sanders.bsky.social for Pockets & Our Timeless Compulsion “…I wrote a poem. I’d like to share it with you, if I may.”

Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk - for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out Marcia Loughran ‘s My Mother Never Died Before Inheritance “…After she died / I erased her voicemails — / I have her voice / inside my head...” #PowerOfPoetry

Especially interested in trying the tofu crumble :)

Looks delicious!

"People who multitask a lot have trouble discerning what's important in their environment. There are huge impacts on our lives from living this constant diet of distraction." — Maggie Jackson open.spotify.com/episode/46iq...

What are you paying attention to? "People who multitask a lot have trouble discerning what's important in their environment. There are huge impacts on our lives from living this constant diet of distraction." — Maggie Jackson 🎙️YouTube: buff.ly/b79EAB7 #Distracted #Attention

"Attention is absolutely, extraordinarily important for how we operate in the world, and it's really useful to know that there are three different kinds.” — Maggie Jackson #attention #Distracted #mentalhealth youtu.be/5IjLh2sEOTw

What are you paying attention to? "Attention is absolutely, extraordinarily important for how we operate in the world, and it's really useful to know that there are three different kinds.” — Maggie Jackson 🎙️YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IjL... #Distracted #Attention

Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk - for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out #PasqualeTrozzolo & #ThePoetryBox @aveningo-sanders.bsky.social for "Before the Distance” About Why “Why should why matter so much/When is so much better.” “Like when we kiss/not why we might” #PowerOfPoetry

Always good to speak to Alan 🙏

“Our family balance has changed. For most of the girls’ lives, they’ve been the center of our universe & we theirs. They have their own universes & we can visit. We’re visiting stars.” What are all the ways we can learn to let go? 👉 www.bethbonness.com/blog/how-can... #WabiSabi #thoughtechoes

Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk changed - for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out to @aveningo-sanders.bsky.social for "Your Rescue" in OR Poetry Assoc #Verseweavers "... stepping across / that threshold, you found yourself and learned / the language of letting go." #PowerOfPoetry

“The attachment to control is very common. Many people get hijacked by control, the secret is vulnerability, to allow yourself to recognize that you don't control everything & let it go." --Bob Rosen #mentalhealth #attachments #vulnerability #thoughtechoes open.spotify.com/episode/330V...

I tried a tiny experiment— I will use a handwriting-to-text app & dictation 7X. As Anne-Laure says, “There’s no pressure, there’s no right, no wrong, there’s just doing it.” can we use tiny experiments to learn more about ourselves? www.bethbonness.com/podcast/anne... @neuranne.bsky.social

"Western psychology is all about goals & aspirations and problem solving & Eastern psychology is all about understanding the power of impermanence & change & uncertainty, in fact, attachments. So I wrote the book to weave those two concepts together." -- Bob Rosen #Detach youtu.be/oKBCu63BnD8

Hello poets & @brokenspinearts.bsky.social - for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out to #RudyFrancisco - ordering own copy My Honest Poem "... Yesterday I tripped/ over my self-esteem, landed on my pride/and it shattered like an iPhone/with a broken face." #poems #poetry #ButtonPoetry

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