• SHE SAID WHAT?! Does this thought cross your head when you read online comments sometimes? Or maybe when you watch the news? I’m an educator and this shows up for me in many ways. In the online space I mostly educate women but offline I educate 7th and 8th graders. At school, we try very hard to instill in them the lesson not to bully. Honestly though, bullying is not limited to children or teens. Sadly I see many adults resorting to this behavior, especially on social media. . They say things they wouldn’t dare say to a person’s face because they can hide behind a screen. If you have ever faced bullying or an unkind comment, I want to advise you not to take it too personally. It’s hard I know because it feels very personal. But understand that when people say unkind things, they are usually operating from a dark place of their own hurt. I’m not excusing the behavior by any means, but when we understand this, we can ACT, not REACT, from a place of consciousness and maybe even compassion. . Sometimes comments from others can also be triggering because they are communicating, listening, and understanding through all of these filters pictured above. We too are listening, understanding, and communicating through our own unique set of filters. Do you see how this leaves room for misunderstandings? Disagreements? Arguments? Not just in the online space but within personal relationships too? I hope you’ll keep this diagram in mind next time you come across a communication issue, whether you’re involved in it or simply watching it.💖
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    SHE SAID WHAT?! Does this thought cross your head when you read online comments sometimes? Or maybe when you watch the news? I’m an educator and this shows up for me in many ways. In the online space I mostly educate women but offline I educate 7th and 8th graders. At school, we try very hard to instill in them the lesson not to bully. Honestly though, bullying is not limited to children or teens. Sadly I see many adults resorting to this behavior, especially on social media. . They say things they wouldn’t dare say to a person’s face because they can hide behind a screen. If you have ever faced bullying or an unkind comment, I want to advise you not to take it too personally. It’s hard I know because it feels very personal. But understand that when people say unkind things, they are usually operating from a dark place of their own hurt. I’m not excusing the behavior by any means, but when we understand this, we can ACT, not REACT, from a place of consciousness and maybe even compassion. . Sometimes comments from others can also be triggering because they are communicating, listening, and understanding through all of these filters pictured above. We too are listening, understanding, and communicating through our own unique set of filters. Do you see how this leaves room for misunderstandings? Disagreements? Arguments? Not just in the online space but within personal relationships too? I hope you’ll keep this diagram in mind next time you come across a communication issue, whether you’re involved in it or simply watching it.💖
  • Raise your hand if you perform better, think better, and act better when you’re emotionally drained😞, tired🥱, angry😡, upset😤, defensive🙅🏼‍♀️, and hurt🤕. Anyone? I should see no hands and if you did raise your hand, well I think you’re just disagreeing just for the heck of it, like how there’s always that one student who knows the answer is no but they just have to be the rebellious one and say yes to disagree🙄😆(speaking from experience as an 8th grade teacher). But I digress. . My point to this statement is that usually if we aren’t feeling well on the inside, specifically in our minds🧠and hearts❤️, we won’t be able to show up in life as the best wife, mother, daughter, teacher, employee, boss, insert whatever role you have here. Mental and emotional health is CRUCIAL. Now more than ever. This is what I do my best to help people (both young and not so young) with and it’s going to be the focus of this IG account. I know first hand, just how powerful the effects can be when we tend to our mental and emotional well-being. The ripple effects are incredible and can help you in multiple areas of your life. . Tell me friend, are you taking care of your mind and heart? What do you find helpful?
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    Raise your hand if you perform better, think better, and act better when you’re emotionally drained😞, tired🥱, angry😡, upset😤, defensive🙅🏼‍♀️, and hurt🤕. Anyone? I should see no hands and if you did raise your hand, well I think you’re just disagreeing just for the heck of it, like how there’s always that one student who knows the answer is no but they just have to be the rebellious one and say yes to disagree🙄😆(speaking from experience as an 8th grade teacher). But I digress. . My point to this statement is that usually if we aren’t feeling well on the inside, specifically in our minds🧠and hearts❤️, we won’t be able to show up in life as the best wife, mother, daughter, teacher, employee, boss, insert whatever role you have here. Mental and emotional health is CRUCIAL. Now more than ever. This is what I do my best to help people (both young and not so young) with and it’s going to be the focus of this IG account. I know first hand, just how powerful the effects can be when we tend to our mental and emotional well-being. The ripple effects are incredible and can help you in multiple areas of your life. . Tell me friend, are you taking care of your mind and heart? What do you find helpful?
  • May the 4th be with you! And may the wait for season 2 of Mandalorian be shortened! . 🎨by @everydoodleday
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    May the 4th be with you! And may the wait for season 2 of Mandalorian be shortened! . 🎨by @everydoodleday
  • Have any of you heard of minimalism? It’s a pretty popular concept nowadays. I just finished re-reading the book “Goodbye, things” by Fumio Sasaki (a well known minimalist, especially in Japan). . Something very interesting that he said that stuck out in my mind is that minimalists are actually bad at taking care of their possessions. They are lazy, which is why they decide to become minimalists in the first place. Now that I think about it this quote may have come from an interview I saw with him or from the book, but I digress… . When I told my my mom what he said, she said: “I don’t think it’s so much that they’re lazy. I think they’re overwhelmed more than anything.” And I was like YES. That’s how it feels! The idea of minimalism is appealing to me because I’m overwhelmed by the things I own! AKA I’m craving simplicity. . I’ve decided from now on that I will not allow my possessions to overwhelm me and weigh me down. That scrapbook equipment that I’ve been saying I’ll use for 4 years now? Goodbye. The paint that I have from that one time I took a scripting class and haven’t touched since? Goodbye. Cookbooks I’ve been keeping for years but never use since I find everything online now but I’ve held on because they were a gift and I feel bad giving them away. Goodbye. I feel lighter already, and I’ve only just begun. . Do you ever feel overwhelmed by what you own? Is there something small that you can let go of? You’ll feel better, believe me!🙌🏻☁️🧘🏼‍♀️
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    Have any of you heard of minimalism? It’s a pretty popular concept nowadays. I just finished re-reading the book “Goodbye, things” by Fumio Sasaki (a well known minimalist, especially in Japan). . Something very interesting that he said that stuck out in my mind is that minimalists are actually bad at taking care of their possessions. They are lazy, which is why they decide to become minimalists in the first place. Now that I think about it this quote may have come from an interview I saw with him or from the book, but I digress… . When I told my my mom what he said, she said: “I don’t think it’s so much that they’re lazy. I think they’re overwhelmed more than anything.” And I was like YES. That’s how it feels! The idea of minimalism is appealing to me because I’m overwhelmed by the things I own! AKA I’m craving simplicity. . I’ve decided from now on that I will not allow my possessions to overwhelm me and weigh me down. That scrapbook equipment that I’ve been saying I’ll use for 4 years now? Goodbye. The paint that I have from that one time I took a scripting class and haven’t touched since? Goodbye. Cookbooks I’ve been keeping for years but never use since I find everything online now but I’ve held on because they were a gift and I feel bad giving them away. Goodbye. I feel lighter already, and I’ve only just begun. . Do you ever feel overwhelmed by what you own? Is there something small that you can let go of? You’ll feel better, believe me!🙌🏻☁️🧘🏼‍♀️
  • Happy Monday everyone! I’m so excited to announce that my website is now up and running! A huge shoutout to the amazing @meraki.thecollective team who designed, created, and launched my site! So so grateful and happy with how it turned out! If you want to take a look👀, visit brookediaz.com! Link will be in bio🤗
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    Happy Monday everyone! I’m so excited to announce that my website is now up and running! A huge shoutout to the amazing @meraki.thecollective team who designed, created, and launched my site! So so grateful and happy with how it turned out! If you want to take a look👀, visit brookediaz.com! Link will be in bio🤗
  • Happy Earth Day!🌎throwback to Thailand this past February when I went to the most beautiful beach I’ve ever seen in my life💙
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    Happy Earth Day!🌎throwback to Thailand this past February when I went to the most beautiful beach I’ve ever seen in my life💙
  • A repost from my beautiful friend @an80sgirl . I’m going to admit something: posts like this (before the improvement and the reframe on the bottom) really are a hot button for me AND I’ve seen this post a couple times already (the one before the reframe) so this needs to be addressed. If you don’t walk out of quarantine with more knowledge, a side hustle and a new skill it’s because you lack discipline?!? Are you freaking kidding me??? . Just because YOU (whoever even created that post) have the ability to do all those things, doesn’t mean that everyone else is obligated to. You will never understand what it’s like to live in another person’s shoes. You can imagine, but YOU. WILL. NEVER. KNOW. How could you? You don’t know where they’ve been and what they’ve been through EVEN IF their life seems wonderful. You don’t know what they’re feeling, what’s going through their head and what beliefs they have. You don’t know their genetic makeup and what they’ve inherited. . To impose, and really for any of us to impose upon others what they should or shouldn’t be doing especially during such a turbulent time like this, is wrong. I have a rebuttal post for whoever is the original creator of that post, if you don’t come out of quarantine with: more compassion, appreciation for yourself and others, and a less judgmental attitude, then who gives a fiddler’s fart if you came out with a new skill, a side hustle, and more knowledge? All of that is in vain if you can’t develop basic human empathy, compassion and general NON-judgementalness. . We’re all doing the best we can with what we have and no one, and I mean NO ONE has the right to try to make you feel like your lack of doing what they think you should be doing is because you “lack discipline.” Whoever wrote this at the moment was the one lacking...common sense.
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    A repost from my beautiful friend @an80sgirl . I’m going to admit something: posts like this (before the improvement and the reframe on the bottom) really are a hot button for me AND I’ve seen this post a couple times already (the one before the reframe) so this needs to be addressed. If you don’t walk out of quarantine with more knowledge, a side hustle and a new skill it’s because you lack discipline?!? Are you freaking kidding me??? . Just because YOU (whoever even created that post) have the ability to do all those things, doesn’t mean that everyone else is obligated to. You will never understand what it’s like to live in another person’s shoes. You can imagine, but YOU. WILL. NEVER. KNOW. How could you? You don’t know where they’ve been and what they’ve been through EVEN IF their life seems wonderful. You don’t know what they’re feeling, what’s going through their head and what beliefs they have. You don’t know their genetic makeup and what they’ve inherited. . To impose, and really for any of us to impose upon others what they should or shouldn’t be doing especially during such a turbulent time like this, is wrong. I have a rebuttal post for whoever is the original creator of that post, if you don’t come out of quarantine with: more compassion, appreciation for yourself and others, and a less judgmental attitude, then who gives a fiddler’s fart if you came out with a new skill, a side hustle, and more knowledge? All of that is in vain if you can’t develop basic human empathy, compassion and general NON-judgementalness. . We’re all doing the best we can with what we have and no one, and I mean NO ONE has the right to try to make you feel like your lack of doing what they think you should be doing is because you “lack discipline.” Whoever wrote this at the moment was the one lacking...common sense.
  • Does anyone else write their to-dos✅ and check them off AFTER they’ve already completed them because they weren’t written down before and you want to feel super accomplished as well as give yourself an exit pass for not having to do more work for the rest of the day? No? Just me? Ok.🤷🏼‍♀️👩🏼‍💻
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    Does anyone else write their to-dos✅ and check them off AFTER they’ve already completed them because they weren’t written down before and you want to feel super accomplished as well as give yourself an exit pass for not having to do more work for the rest of the day? No? Just me? Ok.🤷🏼‍♀️👩🏼‍💻
  • Update on the “change your clothes, change your life” experiment. Sort of a good news bad news situation. The bad news is that it’s not as simple and easy as changing my clothes.🤷🏼‍♀️🤪🤦🏼‍♀️The good news is that it has more to do with my energy, habits, mindset, and mental patterns and those are all things that I know how to work with and change.🙌🏻🧠It’s more of a challenge for sure, but it is fixable. . It’s so interesting, I’ve been asking people and I get equal amounts of “Yes! what you wear makes a difference!” vs “nah, not really.” I even had some people tell me they do half half, where maybe they wear a nice top with yoga pants. What’s your favorite work from home outfit?👚👖👗
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    Update on the “change your clothes, change your life” experiment. Sort of a good news bad news situation. The bad news is that it’s not as simple and easy as changing my clothes.🤷🏼‍♀️🤪🤦🏼‍♀️The good news is that it has more to do with my energy, habits, mindset, and mental patterns and those are all things that I know how to work with and change.🙌🏻🧠It’s more of a challenge for sure, but it is fixable. . It’s so interesting, I’ve been asking people and I get equal amounts of “Yes! what you wear makes a difference!” vs “nah, not really.” I even had some people tell me they do half half, where maybe they wear a nice top with yoga pants. What’s your favorite work from home outfit?👚👖👗
  • Settle something for me if you would…for the past couple weeks in quarantine I’ve been wearing what my mom has labeled “elephant pants.” They’re basically saggy sweatpants and they’re very comfortable. However they, as my mom lovingly says, “look horrible” on me. #thanksmom . Now when I’m at home, I tend to not care what I Iook like because when I go outside I’m forced to care. At home it’s my time! But now that I’m at home having to work, I’m wondering if putting on regular-decent-looking-human-being clothes will help me be more productive? 🤔What do you guys think? Does it matter what you wear? Do you feel more productive wearing work clothes at home? . This📷was taken @pataraelephantfarm in Thailand in February when it was still ok to travel and interact with humans. And elephants🐘
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    Settle something for me if you would…for the past couple weeks in quarantine I’ve been wearing what my mom has labeled “elephant pants.” They’re basically saggy sweatpants and they’re very comfortable. However they, as my mom lovingly says, “look horrible” on me. #thanksmom . Now when I’m at home, I tend to not care what I Iook like because when I go outside I’m forced to care. At home it’s my time! But now that I’m at home having to work, I’m wondering if putting on regular-decent-looking-human-being clothes will help me be more productive? 🤔What do you guys think? Does it matter what you wear? Do you feel more productive wearing work clothes at home? . This📷was taken @pataraelephantfarm in Thailand in February when it was still ok to travel and interact with humans. And elephants🐘