Innate Divinity

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You’re all special ✨

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You can always recognize someone who has suffered, they listen more than they speak.

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This

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Quote of the day

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I’m seeing a lot of people saying this post changed their brain chemistry, and as a neuroscientist I wanted to say yes!!! Yes it does!

Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.

If you have a mental illness/disorder that affects dopamine, you might feel that you don’t want to do the things that you like. You do still like them. You will appreciate having done them.

Let your likes guide you.

(If you want to read more, here’s one experimental paper about it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5171207/ This theory called the incentive-sensitization theory was originally created to explain behaviors in addiction but can be applied elsewhere as well)

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psych

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“Be with someone who treats you as a destination, not a stop along the way.”

— Mandy Hale

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“I’m not the same person I used to be, and that’s not a tragedy. That’s what happens when someone survives things that were supposed to break them.”

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Springtime fireflies.

Gifu, Japan.

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Pattie Boyd photographed by Alexis Waldeck for ’Vogue’, 1971

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This.....

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