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neil-gaiman

Hi, I read that you've dealt with with impostor syndrome in the past, and I'm really struggling with that right now. I'm in a good place and my friends are going through a lot, and I'm struggling to justify my success to myself when such amazing people are unhappy. I was wondering if you have any tips to feel less like this and maybe be kinder to myself, but without hurting anyone around me. It's a big ask, I know, but any help would make my life a lot less stressful

The best help I can offer is to point you to Amy Cuddy’s book, Presence. She talks about Imposter Syndrome (and interviews me in it) and offers helpful insight.

The second best help might be in the form of an anecdote. Some years ago, I was lucky enough invited to a gathering of great and good people: artists and scientists, writers and discoverers of things. And I felt that at any moment they would realise that I didn’t qualify to be there, among these people who had really done things.

On my second or third night there, I was standing at the back of the hall, while a musical entertainment happened, and I started talking to a very nice, polite, elderly gentleman about several things, including our shared first name. And then he pointed to the hall of people, and said words to the effect of, “I just look at all these people, and I think, what the heck am I doing here? They’ve made amazing things. I just went where I was sent.”

And I said, “Yes. But you were the first man on the moon. I think that counts for something.”

And I felt a bit better. Because if Neil Armstrong felt like an imposter, maybe everyone did. Maybe there weren’t any grown-ups, only people who had worked hard and also got lucky and were slightly out of their depth, all of us doing the best job we could, which is all we can really hope for.

(There’s a wonderful photograph of the Three Neils even if one of us was a Neal at http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2012/08/neil-armstrong.html)

neil-gaiman

Reblogging, as perhaps someone needs this.

thatgirlwithadhd

So much of managing your mental health is just…learning to parent yourself like you’re a toddler

Like, “Honey, it’s 10 pm and you’ve been up since four in the morning, no wonder you’re emotional. Plus all you’ve had to eat today was three chocolate truffles and a half a protein drink. Make yourself some scrambled eggs and peas, you can even put them in separate bowls so they don’t touch. Then go to bed. You can do more fun things tomorrow, but first you need to sleep. Okay?”

ituckyouinmypocket

In the old days we didn’t call this managing mental health, we called this managing being an adult.

thatgirlwithadhd

Interesting, that.

See, I’m five years into adulthood. I have a college degree (a few in fact), a car, insurance payments, a job, yada yada. I ostensibly joined the Grown Up Club a few years back.

But, having grown up with a number of undiagnosed disorders and mental illnesses, I never learned a healthy style of self-talk.

If I’m honest, between depression and anxiety, the way I grew up talking to myself was abusive. I’m not kidding; if the things I thought to and about myself were said aloud to someone else, it would be considered verbal and emotional abuse.

So this idea of treating myself like a small child? With the same loving firmness and compassion?

This is a radical idea for me.

This is me learning to stop those abusive thought patterns, and talk to myself in a kinder, healthier way.

And it doesn’t have much to do with adulthood. I know adults who have treated themselves unkindly this way for many years. A healthy relationship with yourself doesn’t just sprout once you’re an adult; you have to develop it.

Those are my thoughts anyway. I hope they make sense.

naturaekos

“To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don’t try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh (via naturaekos)

teachingliteracy

“I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via luthienleithian)

sosuperawesome

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strandbooks

Why must the internet hurt me like this? 😫 😫 😫

sensiblereblogifposts

Reblog if you need a bookmark

dracophile

So, I heard about this and I can’t find the original, but apparently this started because someone returned a book to a library with a taco in the middle of it.

valtsv

obsessed with those stone stairs and archways in the middle of the woods that remain standing after the rest of the building has fallen to ruin

valtsv

portals

dongcroncher

Don’t walk up the stairs

valtsv

if i want to get abducted by the fae that’s MY choice and you can’t stop me

francesca-feasts

I was going to add a photo of Madame Sherri’s summer house, but that last photo is it!

More info on her: https://newengland.com/today/travel/new-hampshire/madame-sherri-new-hampshire/

Welcome to the world of Madame Sherri. This eccentric New Hampshire legend is shrouded in rumor. There are tales of her running a brothel, o

somnolentsuggestions

hmmm. hmm. i think today is a day to wrap myself in a large blanket and lie very still

prayingthefaithless

Maybe if I stay very still the depression won’t see me

somnolentsuggestions

i know im op but mood

buttonpoetry

“I can move everything but on.”

— Omar Holmon, “Precious Little Life”

tonedeafparrot

fuckyeahgoodomens

I believe it's been confirmed by either Neil or Michael that the last scene Michael shot as Aziraphale was the end of the church scene (or something involving that whole scene). Do you know what was the first scene Michael shot?

Hiya! :) the cameras rolled for the first time 18th September 2017 in the St James Park (x):

This day also Neil posted this picture of the boys (x):

So I conclude the first scene must have been on of those where Crowley is trying to convince Aziraphale to do something about the antichrist in the park :)

The last scene was indeed the church scene :) (x)

UPDATE: Oh, Neil just answered the same question on twitter, was that you or is that a coincidence? :)

neil-gaiman

Although to clarify, the last SHOT of Aziraphale, at the end of the Church day, was Michael as Aziraphale reading Agnes’s Book at his desk in the bookshop. If you look carefully, that’s what he’s wearing in that final selfie.

And that photo of them was taken just before they shot their first scene. They aren’t yet Aziraphale and Crowley: they are Michael and David in costume on their way through St James’s Park.

wilwheaton

“In the last 48 hours, major news outlets have reported (or confirmed previous reports of) the following information: • The president repeatedly ordered his subordinates to turn away any and all asylum seekers at the southern border, in defiance of federal and international law — and promised to pardon the head of Customs and Border Protection if following this illegal directive got him into any trouble. • Trump wanted the soldiers he sent to the southern border to “shoot migrants in the legs to slow them down.” His aides informed him that this was illegal. • Trump forced his advisers to look into what it would cost to build and maintain a border moat “stocked with snakes or alligators.” • Trump’s DHS advisers resisted his calls for extralegal forms of deterrence, and were purged for that reason. (Thus, should migrant arrivals try the president’s patience again at some future date, the department may prove more amenable to his illegal ideas.) • The Justice Department has made discrediting “a finding by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help [Trump] win” one of its top priorities — despite the fact that publicly disclosed emails indicate Donald Trump’s campaign knew that Russia did precisely this before virtually anyone else. • The State Department is “investigating the email records of as many as 130 current and former department officials who sent messages to the private email account of Hillary Clinton,” a probe that one former senior U.S. official familiar describes as a scheme “to keep the Clinton email issue alive” and “tarnish a whole bunch of Democratic foreign policy people,” so as to purge disloyal elements from the deep state. • Various interest groups, and at least one foreign government, have (allegedly) “tried to ingratiate themselves to President Donald Trump by booking rooms at his hotels but never staying in them.” Accepting such bribes would ostensibly put the president in violation of the Constitution. In other words: A perusal of the day’s headlines indicate that we are living under the thumb of a corrupt, bloodthirsty tyrant.”

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Donald Trump Is a Corrupt Blood-Thirsty Tyrant: Reports

The entire Republican party is totally cool with this.