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Happy publication day! THE ART OF HOMECOMING is on sale now!!!
It's 300 pages of writing prompts, guided reflections, hand-drawn coloring pages & #mindfulness exercises to guide you on your journey of waking up and realizing your worth! amzn.to/2GQTlXY
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negative thinking destroys your brain
being a silly goose and delusionally optimistic is the ultimate longevity hack
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Guys, I beg you to start being the person you wish to be. This study found that just 5 minutes a day of imagining your best possible self, for two weeks, made people noticeably more optimistic about their future. Picture who you want to be, then go act like them today.
Peace isn’t the absence of chaos—it’s the ability to return to calm within it. Even in the middle of a full, messy, unpredictable life, you can learn to access a steady, blissful state of mind that lives underneath it all.
Joy, play, and love aren’t luxuries. They’re part of a healthy life. Laughter can lower stress hormones, singing and dancing can support well-being, and connection helps us feel safe. We optimize food, sleep, and exercise. Let’s make room for joy, too.
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A Native American grief ritual from the 14oos was studied at Johns Hopkins..
It processed trauma 6x faster than talk therapy.
(Therapists' associations tried to discredit it) 👇 🧵
#HappyThursday Take a moment to pause, take a deep breath, and notice how you feel in your body. Let yourself settle into the present moment. No need to rush ahead to the weekend just yet.
Strength comes from facing what broke you, learning from it, and choosing to rise again with more clarity, self-respect, and awareness than before. #mindfulness
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1. Never stop exercising or learning.
2.Accept compromise to begin relationships.
3. Manifest the power of compounding.
4. Never gamble.
5. Have kids and be a good parent
6. If it flies or floats, rent it.
7. Buy half the house you can afford.
8. Art in the eye of the beholder is cheap.
9. Be thankful for and to all.
10. Be charitable.
#HappyThursday In the spirit of #mindfulness, take a deep breath, notice your body, and let this moment ground you. You’ve almost made it through the week—celebrate that calm, even for a minute.
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Use your phone less.
Use your phone less.
Use your phone less.
Use your phone less.
Because attention is not free.
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Nick Saban's Five Enemies of Greatness is always worth a read. He didn't write these, but they're a solid short list of his coaching philosophy throughout the years...
Ingest them for your team, and ingest them for yourself.
The 5 Enemies..keep them away from you.
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People high in ADHD traits have an underappreciated advantage.
Curiosity.
Self-compassion sounds simple, but it can be hard to practice. We’re often kinder to others than we are to ourselves. Start small—notice how you speak to yourself, especially when things go wrong. Over time, that small shift can change how you relate to yourself when life is hard
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ADHD is not a disorder. it's a phenotype. it means you have og genetics.
people with adhd were the elite hunters and gatherers.
adhd is only seen as a "disorder" when you're born in modern times and forced to live an unnatural lifestyle in an unnatural environment.
of course, it's going to be seen as a disorder when you put a kid in a chair for 8 hours a day and force them to study useless shit.
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ADHD is closely linked to a delayed body clock.
Early evidence suggests correcting this delay can also improve ADHD symptoms.
Up to 78 percent of people with ADHD have a body clock that runs late, and moving that clock earlier has been linked to fewer ADHD symptoms. A 2025 paper by two Canadian doctors pulled the evidence together and laid out a treatment plan.
Melatonin, the hormone that tells your body it's time to sleep, starts rising about 45 minutes later at night in children with ADHD and about 90 minutes later in adults. Brandon Luu of Queen's University and Nicholas Fabiano of the University of Ottawa gathered this research in Frontiers in Psychiatry. Sleep problems affect up to 80 percent of adults with ADHD and up to 82 percent of children.
People with ADHD also tend to have a flatter, later daily cortisol rhythm, and some studies have found a smaller pineal gland, the tiny gland deep in the brain that makes melatonin. Their body clock genes show weaker daily swings too.
Melatonin and bright light therapy have both moved the body clock earlier in children and adults with ADHD. Early studies link that shift to fewer ADHD symptoms, and sleep programs for children have improved symptoms, sleep, and daily functioning.
Screening every ADHD patient for sleep and body clock problems is the first step in the plan the authors propose. After that come a fixed wake-up time, bright light in the morning, less light and screen time at night, regular daily routines, and low-dose melatonin for people whose clock is clearly running late.
The paper is a perspective piece that summarizes earlier research, and much of the treatment evidence is still early. For the large group of people with ADHD whose clocks run late, the first steps it recommends are about light, timing, and routine. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4145…
Accepting your emotions can help you understand yourself better. Our emotions can offer clues about what we need, what hurts & what matters to us. Instead of immediately pushing difficult feelings away, mindfulness gives us a chance to pause and simply notice what’s happening.
