#useyourwords

[voidstilesplease]

I wish I'd never figured it out. That I love him. It's only ever been a torment. Sharing a room with the person you want most is like sharing a room with an open fire. He's constantly drawing you in. And you're constantly stepping too close. And you know it's not good - that there is no good - that there's absolutely nothing that can ever come of it. But you do it anyway. And then...

Well. Then you burn.

~Carry On, Rainbow Rowell

[nourishtoflourishyes]

ugly unspoken.

I’m all about words. speaking my mind, sharing my thoughts. when I’m mad, you will know all the details. when I love&appreciate you, I will share all the reasons why. 

because I believe there is a dark&ugly power in the unspoken. assumptions are like mother gothic, the ultimate disney villain imo of course. 

think about all the times you thought that person was mad at you or that friend was talking shit behind your back. if we all just open&honestly communicated, the truth would show itself.  I don’t go running around angry, talking shit. &using our words &not leaving things unspoken //letting the assumptions win// would show our people aren’t doing that shit either.  

words fill in the space between the lines before the unspoken&assumptions can speak in &steal our happiness. 

[rainbowroweller]

'I used to see a counsellor and a speech therapist. “Use your words, Simon.” I got so bloody sick of hearing that. It was so much easier to just take what I wanted instead of asking for it.

Or thump whoever was hurting me, even if they thumped me right back.'

Post 6 ❤️

[midlifecalm]

Zoot, you are so not helping. But I guess if you are going to sit here I might as well practice having "the sex talk" with you like my text suggests. At least you don't giggle. posted on Instagram - http://bit.ly/2WgzlkG

[lauragyoga]

This is me!!!- i have never been a teacher that gives many physical adjustments in group yoga class- instead I use verbal cues to lead the student to find their own way!! 👉Maybe because i have been given some overly aggressive adjustments in the past (borderline injury causing), 👉maybe because I dont love being touched during my own practice (it takes me out of my experience in the pose), 👉maybe because I need to have a very deep understanding of a students body before i put my hands on them & thats not always possible in a group class, 👉maybe because i dont feel like i can spend the necessary time working with that individual student in a group class without detracting from the group experience & i dont want to touch a student without putting my full attention in the adjustment. 👉and maybe its because i am easily distracted and can forget where i am in the sequence when i pull my attention away 🙎 its NOT because im uncomfortable touching people- i literally touch people ALL day as an OT & massage therapist! 💥I WILL use physical adjustments as appropriate in a private session where 100% of my attention is on that student & communication is open during the process! ------------ #repost from @enhancedbody ------------------ Repost: Why? Because I teach people to become cognizant, to observe, to notice what their body is communicating to them. And that’s different on any given day. . Yeah but what about helping a student get deeper in a pose? Nah, no thanks. That’s not my goal. . I could care less what a student looks like. I want them to be a able to respect how they feel and adjust accordingly, without me in the way of getting them ‘deeper’ or interrupting their experience. . There are multiple other reasons too. . What are your thoughts on touching in class, besides getting deeper in a shape? . #yoga #saturdaymood #touch #intuition #proprioception #interoception #feel #getoutoftheway #letstudentsbe #yogateachers #youdontalwayshavetotouch #useyourwords #beskillfulwithyourwords #advancedyogateacher #knowwhentoletgo #ownyourteaching #joblove #enhancedbody

[voidstilesplease]

"A prophecy. That the best of the Myrmidons will die before two more years have passed."

Thetis, to Achilles (the best of the Greeks): The prophecy says you will still be alive when it happens.

~•~

Achilles to Patroclus:

"You are a better man than I."

Briseis to Patroclus:

"Be careful tomorrow. Best of men. Best of the Myrmidons."

~•~

I knew it would happen, but the foreshadowing hurts. Apparently, I'm not done with the angst.

[voidstilesplease]

It hurts to look at you when you're this happy. And it hurts to look at you when you're depressed. There's no safe time for me to see you, nothing about you that doesn't tear my heart from my chest and leave it breakable outside my body.

~Wayward Son, Rainbow Rowell

[voidstilesplease]

"Patroclus is my sworn companion. His place is beside me."

"If you have to go, you know I will go with you."

"I will go. I will go to Troy. Will you come with me?"

I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.

~ TSoA