A batch of the best highlights from what Nicole's read, .
Nietzsche, like Emerson, took two long walks a day.
The Writing Life
Annie Dillard
There’s a Gabby Bernstein quote I love: “True healing occurs when I give myself permission to feel whatever feelings live below the triggers.”
As a Therapist and Suicide Survivor, Here's What Made Me Reconsider Ending My Life
Theodora Blanchfield, AMFT
During the 2010s, the body-positivity movement occurred in response to a decade of cruel, ritualized self-hatred. What had started with Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty in 2004 gained momentum as more scientific evidence emerged that diets simply did not work. In 2016, the plus-sized model Ashley Graham appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue, the same year that Mattel began selling Barbies with different body types and skin colors.