[thewriterscaravan]

Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies. Being frightened means that you live in a body that is always on guard. Angry people live in angry bodies. The bodies of child-abuse victims are tense and defensive until they find a way to relax and feel safe. In order to change, people need to become aware of their sensations and the way that their bodies interact with the world around them. Physical self-awareness is the first step in releasing the tyranny of the past.

Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (via yesdarlingido)

[littlealienproducts]

Thank You Card by luckyhorsepress

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Glass bottle in the form of a fish. Place of origin: el- Amarna Period: 18th Dynasty

[thefugitivesaint]

Warwick Goble (1862-1943), “The Book of Fairy Poetry” by Dora Owen, 1920 Some selections of the black and white illustrations from the book. Well, most of them actually.  Source

[ubeink]

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.

[enchantedbook]

“Ariel  : on the bat’s back I do fly after Summer, merrily” from William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” artist : H.C. Selous

[luthienne]

And I long for goodness—to live by what is permanent in the soul.

Katherine Mansfield, in a letter to J.M. Murry, dated October 1920 (via luthienne)

[dirkhoffmann]

CoCo | 2015

[podkins]

Ooo, this is just awesome!  

Fox Baby Blanket Pattern

Available for a wee fee via MyCrochetStories ‘s Etsy store.  This is really creative!  

[niktipolos]

Stories with weight to them have what C.G. Jung terms ‘the lament of the dead’, which in our frenetic culture we can no longer have time to hear. Most indigenous cultures will tell you that this world belongs to the dead, that’s where we’re headed. So mythology for me involves a conversation with the dead, with what you might call ancestors. Whatever we are facing now we need to have a root system embedded in weather patterns, the presences of animals, our dreams, and the ones who came before us. Myth is insistent that when there is a crisis, genius lives on the margins not the centre. If we are constantly using the language of politics to combat the language of politics at some point the soul grows weary and turns its head away because we are not allowing it into the conversation, and by denying soul we are ignoring what the Mexicans call the river beneath the river. We’re not listening to the thoughts of the world. We’re only listening to our own neurosis and our own anxiety.

Martin Shaw. (via blancheparish)

[kunst-kiste]

Rayons de Soleil (Poème de l’âme, 1854), Louis Janmot

[windypoplarsroom]

[brittanythebee-blog]

phoebe wahl

[brittanythebee-blog]

trying to write a short story for my cw class but no music feels gentle nor sweet enough for what i'm writing. i wanna listen to tunes but nothings vibeing!

[brittanythebee-blog]

[brittanythebee-blog]

my thing with lane is he's my honey so i want to share my love for him because he's so wonderful.

[brittanythebee-blog]

my lover on a bus (october, 2017- 7:03am)

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Star inlay. Culture: Egyptian Period: New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty Date: 1550–1295 B.C. Place of origin: Egypt, Abydos, tomb D4 Medium: Ivory