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Internalised Ableism
The question didn’t arrive all at once. It appeared slowly, quietly, in moments I didn’t expect. When I used my walking stick on a day I could technically manage without it. When I parked in a disabled space and stepped out of the car without limping. When I told someone about my diagnosis and watched their eyes search my body for confirmation.
By Millie Hardy-Simsabout a month ago in Motivation
Am I Disabled Enough?
The hardest part of using my disabled parking badge isn’t the walking. It’s the watching. The moment I step out of the car, I feel it. The pause. The glance. The subtle double-take as someone tries to reconcile what they see with what they believe disability should look like. Their eyes flick from my face to the badge, then back again, searching for evidence that justifies my presence.
By Millie Hardy-Simsabout a month ago in Motivation
SACRED CORE ROOTS
Love demonstrates endless compassion despite imperfections, flaws, or mistakes. Love does not disappear, it expands at an exponential rate, as it demonstrates compassionate perseverance, consistency, strength, courage, and clarity beyond the illusionary, obscure, or misaligned notions of control or fear. It requires great courage to begin again despite the coldness within one’s heart. Love can restore the soul to a state of peace, beyond the endurance of ruthless destruction inflicted upon it. Silence reveals the truth within time of one’s limitations, by uncovering or revealing one’s repetitive nature, conditioned adopted programs, or reinforced notions, beliefs, or stories, which are transfixed or etched within the mind, as familiar pain appears and feels safer than progressive change. Truth, hidden motives, and betrayal, causes systematic irreversible internal pain. The soul retains the feeling or weight of the situation. Wounds can be endured and heal within the context of time, but the damage felt by the spoken word or the physical act of a stroke of a pen, echoes beyond space and time. Discipline and focus enables self-mastery and awakening. One must seek relationships that are not savage in nature. Pillaging, using, or depriving another’s soul for gain, demonstrates a relentless need to inflict pain onto others in a destructive manner. Pain projected is often unconscious, subconscious, or conscious pain felt or sustained within. Comparison is the thief of joy, remaining cruel, miserable, jealous, or arrogant deprives the soul of true nurturance and the attainment of greater peace. To embody restorative peace, one must seek to live gently, quietly, humbly, and operate with virtue and ethical discernment, with morality and justice in mind. Love is a dichotomous balance and a juxtaposition of beauty and pain, as it enables the soul to feel every spectrum of emotion within every crevice, facet, and corner of one’s being, as true compassionate empathetic love does not disappear it transcends, heals, and matures within time.
By ELISABETH BABARCI about a month ago in Motivation
The Hidden Cost of Connection
Not long ago, social media felt like an open and welcoming space, a place where making new connections happened almost effortlessly. People shared their thoughts, personal stories, creative work, or quiet reflections, and others, whether friends, followers, or strangers who simply felt a spark of recognition, would see them and respond. There was a sense of real visibility, of being heard and acknowledged. When someone posted something heartfelt, it did not disappear into silence. It reached people.
By Jeanne Jess about a month ago in Motivation
When Life Doesn’t Get Easier, But You Get Stronger at Living It. Content Warning. AI-Generated.
There is a quiet realization that arrives in adulthood, usually without ceremony: life does not necessarily become easier. It becomes fuller. Heavier. More layered.
By Chilam Wongabout a month ago in Motivation
Ecclesiastes and the Weight of Meaninglessness
Have you ever noticed how unsettling Ecclesiastes feels compared to most of Scripture. It does not rush to reassure. It does not soften its conclusions. It returns again and again to the same observation: everything fades, everything repeats, and nothing under the sun seems capable of holding still long enough to become permanent. Wisdom fails to secure lasting satisfaction. Pleasure loses its edge. Work outlives the worker. Even moral effort appears unable to guarantee stability. For many readers, this tone feels almost dissonant, as if the book is saying out loud what faith is supposed to quiet.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcastabout a month ago in Motivation
The Transformation Process: Craft, Makeup, and Character Development
There’s a specific moment that happens when you’re sitting in the makeup chair. It’s quiet. The mirrors are lit. Brushes move carefully across your face. Then suddenly, you don’t fully recognize the person looking back at you.
By Andreas Szakacsabout a month ago in Motivation
