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Should, Should Not (a poem) | @DrAlexandriaSZ.bsky.social vist.ly/47n9p A woman should not love a man, but if she does, she should keep the child of their breath close to her heart. A man, when he loves a woman, should not use words that are dear to her... #MondayBlogs

Holiday (memoir, poem) | @DrAlexandriaSZ.bsky.social vist.ly/47pzj Late this morning your first wife phoned, from where it is not raining: your three children huddled around, chirping, while the cat lapped milk from their cereal bowls. #MondayBlogs #Poem #Memoir

The Alexandria Papers Newsletter #155 | @DrAlexandriaSZ.bsky.social vist.ly/4ckup #Migraine #MentalHealth #Poem #Memoir

"There is a ghost who walks my garden each night, summer or winter, rain or snow, and this ghost causes quite a furor in the village." The Ghost Walk | @DrAlexandriaSZ.bsky.social https://buff.ly/46kv6Jv #Poem #Memoir #Divorce #MondayBlogs

“Your survival response is not a moral failing. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.” — Viktor Frankl #Trauma #MentalHealth

Childhood Wounds and the Legacy of Shame | Richard Nicastro, Ph.D. https://buff.ly/HyUcBxr "One of the most damaging outcomes of childhood trauma and neglect is the emotional injury of feeling unworthy. #Trauma #Shame

“Why bother (telling your story)? Because right now there is someone out there with a wound in the exact shape of your words.” — Sean Thomas Dougherty #Trauma

Listen to @JenniferKindera.bsky.social and host Rachel Thompson @BadRedheadMedia.bsky.social on #SexAbuseChat X Spaces (formerly Twitter) TOPIC: Shame as the Great Protector Click here 👇 to listen: vist.ly/3n3k45y #MentalHealth #Trauma #MondayBlogs

Untangling Emotions: Toxic Positivity, Self-Care, & Shame | @JenniferKindera.bsky.social vist.ly/45zd5 Toxic positivity is a deeply embedded part of our culture, and it can infiltrate into our mindset and affect our emotional and relational self-care. #MondayBlogs #Trauma

Narcissism & Codependency — Shame, the Missing Puzzle Piece | @JenniferKindera.bsky.social vist.ly/4dnyb As the family rules and mottos get passed from generation to generation, we are groomed to fulfill our role, and because shame rises up to protect us. #MondayBlogs #Narcissism

Narcissism & Codependency — Shame, the Missing Puzzle Piece | @JenniferKindera.bsky.social vist.ly/4esbr As the family rules and mottos get passed from generation to generation, we are groomed to fulfill our role, and because shame rises up to protect us. #MondayBlogs #Narcissism

Untangling Emotions: Toxic Positivity, Self-Care, & Shame | @JenniferKindera.bsky.social vist.ly/4estv Toxic positivity is a deeply embedded part of our culture, and it can infiltrate into our mindset and affect our emotional and relational self-care. #MondayBlogs #Trauma

Listen to @JenniferKindera.bsky.social and host Rachel Thompson @BadRedheadMedia.bsky.social on #SexAbuseChat X Spaces (formerly Twitter) TOPIC: Shame as the Great Protector Click here 👇 to listen: vist.ly/3n3k45y #MentalHealth #Trauma #MondayBlogs

I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart. ~ Vincent Van Gogh #QOTD

Celebrating Women’s Work Throughout Art History | Jennifer Higge via Frieze vist.ly/4c4qr "Until very recently, the art history most people were taught wasn’t really that different to the one that had been studied in the 19th century." #Feminism #ArtHistory

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. ~ Francis Bacon #Art #Writing #Poetry via @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color. ~ Mary Cassatt #QOTD

Gripping Thrillers by Female Authors | Rosie Walsh via @PenguinRandom vist.ly/4cda4 "I have two small children and a job: if I manage to squeeze any reading time into my day, I need the book in my hand to be absolutely gripping." #Thrillers #Books

I love creation more than life, and I must express myself before disappearing. ~ Sonia Delaunay #QOTD

🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists: 2 | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/Mmq5gXA 🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists: 1 | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/qJ7Sdxt #MondayBlogs

Dreamers are those who have achieved in love and life, because it is a dream that got them there. ~ Cindy Sherman #QOTD

Feminist Art History: An Introductory Reading List | Gabrielle Stecher via @JSTOR vist.ly/4cxuj "Beginning with texts written in the 1970s, this reading list shows how the major questions, critiques, & debates developed in feminist art history." #ArtHistory

Great art picks up where nature ends. ~ Marc Chagall #QOTD photo by Edoardo Soloni via Unsplash

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn’t say otherwise. ~ Frida Kahlo #QOTD

The artist grips his idea and will not let it go until it has blessed him, as the angel blessed Jacob. ~ Cecilia Beaux #QOTD

🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists: 2 | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/Mmq5gXA 🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists: 1 | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/qJ7Sdxt #MondayBlogs

Field of Gold | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://ow.ly/mBQe50Wx1pR The first occupant I saw in Julia's conservation studio was a nine-foot-tall Madonna. She was a fright - her face flaking, her oversized halo full of cracks, her dull white gown ripped and stained. #MondayBlogs

I can become obsessed with every mark and brushstroke on the canvas. As if every mark is a note of music and they all have to come together to be coherent, like a symphonic composition – and then it will sing the song I want to sing. ~ Suzy Murphy #QOTD

🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/qJ7Sdxt There is no one profile of an art thief. People steal art for many reasons, most commonly for profit. #ArtTheft

Every time I have had a problem, I have confronted it with the ax of art. ~ Yayoi Kusama #QOTD

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. ~ Celia Cruz #QOTD

If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint. ~ Edward Hopper #QOTD

🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists: 2 | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/Mmq5gXA 🎨 How Love Turns People into Art Thieves: The Psychology Behind Infamous Heists: 1 | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/qJ7Sdxt #MondayBlogs

𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙈𝙮 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙄𝙣𝙫𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝘽𝙡𝙚𝙬 𝙈𝙮 𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙙 : The hidden inspirations behind a novelist’s heroine | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/AFJeGUl "I should have known sooner. Or at least suspected." #MondayBlogs #Writing

Two Tall Women in NYC | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social via FeminineCollective https://ow.ly/i5wK50WEENg "Losing my identity was not in our plan. Mary and I came to the big city to celebrate finishing our books—my psychological thriller and her memoir of love and loss." #MondayBlogs

Scarcity can engender its own kind of beauty, because we recognize with deeper clarity what remains. ~ @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙒𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮: 𝘼 𝘿𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧’𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙞𝙧 (June 2026 @SheWritesPress) #Memoir

💚 Motherhood Is Another Country, One That I Will Never Know by @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/n9Z1LDF “Do you have children?” is a question I’ve grown used to hearing when I meet someone for the first time. Yet after all these years, I still hesitate over my answer. #MondayBlogs

Home encompasses the structures we inhabit and the physical geography of a specific place, as well as the intimate landscape of the heart and spirit.  ~ @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙒𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮: 𝘼 𝘿𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧’𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙞𝙧 (June 2026 SheWritesPress) #Memoir

💚 Finding Refuge in Marriage: Turning a Painful Past into Lifetime Love | @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/iGS23F4 Refuge can refer to shelter or protection from danger or distress, but it can also refer to a feeling of being seen and cherished, of belonging. #MondayBlogs

Traveling the Familiar: Why Certain Places Feel Like Home | @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/wQeAi78 In The Reader, the protagonist comments that he once believed he should be more adventurous in his travel, so he explored countries and cities he might not have visited. #MondayBlogs

💚 Motherhood Is Another Country, One That I Will Never Know by @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/n9Z1LDF “Do you have children?” is a question I’ve grown used to hearing when I meet someone for the first time. Yet after all these years, I still hesitate over my answer. #MondayBlogs

Refuge can refer to shelter or protection from danger or distress, but it can also refer to a feeling of being seen and cherished, of belonging. ~ @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social "Finding Refuge in Marriage: Turning a Painful Past into Lifetime Love" #Memoir

💚 Finding Refuge in Marriage: Turning a Painful Past into Lifetime Love | @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/iGS23F4 Refuge can refer to shelter or protection from danger or distress, but it can also refer to a feeling of being seen and cherished, of belonging. #MondayBlogs

Traveling the Familiar: Why Certain Places Feel Like Home | @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/wQeAi78 In The Reader, the protagonist comments that he once believed he should be more adventurous in his travel, so he explored countries and cities he might not have visited. #MondayBlogs

The Worst Mother on the Planet | @MonaAndrei.bsky.social aka MoxieDude via Substack vist.ly/4bwj9 (Spoiler: It's not you!) #MondayBlogs

I’m a gentle soul. Just don’t f*ck with my kids! open.substack.com/pub/moxiemon...