You got the text. Got the job. Hit the number… but felt empty 😶
Brain wired for the chase (dopamine + hedonic treadmill), not the win.
8-min deep dive: why success feels hollow + 5 shifts to build real identity 🧠🔥
Watch → youtu.be/uT-gYiTcxzA
Felt this? Drop 🔥
#Psychology #SelfIdentity #Dopamine

She is Me There are days when I wake into a stillness I don’t recognise.

"I miss her so fiercely it aches..A searing pain entwined with the belief that this is the final draft of me. I’m not #afraid of #ageing. I’m afraid of never again feeling at home in my own skin.": buff.ly/GPuXRnH

by @leighlouharper.bsky.social
#ChronicPain #DisabledPeople #SelfIdentity #spoonie

Be more On human nature, self-improvement, and why fixating on characteristics like masculinity is a great way to sell books but an inadequate way to improve society

issues.eveningpostandmail.com/p/be-more
#masculinity #selfidentity

Throwback old self portrait I sold a few years ago.
#blackart #selfidentity

trying not lose my #selfidentity with this mess males made. making friends an family its nuts

Existential Concerns and Chronic Illness Chronic illness necessitates an exploration of existential issues, including freedom, meaning, connection, and mortality.

“In pre-illness life, the #meaning of being a #self was anchored by a tacit #belief that the #body automatically wld perform its functions in the background. When #illness removes that anchor, we r thrown into a crisis of meaninglessness.”: buff.ly/NIvsI7V

via @psychologytoday.com
#SelfIdentity

I’d been managing my OCD, but then darkness overtook my brain | Psyche Turning Points I’d lived through two eras: pre and post OCD diagnosis. Nothing prepared me for what the third era held

“There’s the Before Time – the 35 years before I was officially #diagnosed with #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder ( #OCD ). When I think about that version of myself, she’s barely recognisable to me.": buff.ly/v0kKaV8

from @psyche.co
#MentalIllness #SelfIdentity #spoonie

Shouldn't we be very concerned about how easily and quickly people feel compelled to fix their personal identity to one of the sides in a conflict, whether it is political, commercial, legal or cultural, rather than retain a more independent and open minded identity?

#SelfIdentity #DeepQuestioning

We can't control where we come from, but we can control how we see ourselves and how we respond.

For example, I've a PhD in physics from a renowned university in the U.S., but neither of my parents has a bachelor's degree. ...

👇1/4 #mindset #selfidentity #firstgeneration #selfbelief #perspective

Sharing Space - Episode 3: Conversion Therapy YouTube video by The Trevor Project

#conversiontherapy is harmful. Please share so we can try to reach folks and continue educating about the harms this “therapy” does to children and adults. #lgbtq #lgbtqia #trans #genderaffirmingcare #transrights #psychology #theology #trauma #selfidentity #scotus

youtu.be/f6nZDG_j1oc?...

The exhaustion you feel isn't physical. It's existential 🌌
It's the deep fatigue from playing a character that isn't YOU.

#SoulTired #FalseIdentity #SelfIdentity #Depression #Awakening #BreakTheCycle #InnerWork #SelfLove #MentalHealth

A grime-theater mash-up. A mixed-race man's journey through identity, grime culture, and self-discovery in a divided world.

🖥️: https://tinyurl.com/8hn6fmeh
#grimetheater #selfidentity #booksky

#CosmicThoughts #Philosophy #HumanCondition #SelfIdentity #Existential #Entropy

What Is a Body For? - Longreads One desire felt like it would make me more of who I already was, and the other would unmake me entirely.

“What has surprised me, in #motherhood, is how easy it has been to “lose” what I was clutching and how seldom I’ve longed for that past self I was afraid would disappear. But #loss is not the same thing as #change.”: buff.ly/kI2Xud3

Via @Longreads.com
#SelfIdentity #parenting

The Paradox of Necessary Grief: Grief Lives Alongside Joy Grief doesn't fade. It learns to live alongside joy. That's not failure, that's the work.

“And this #grief? It's not just for what's gone.
It's for what might've been.
The parts of me that never got to grow.
The lives I could've lived if only…”: buff.ly/jR68CDP

By @stillrollingout.stillrollingoutdoors.com
#loss #SelfIdentity #ChronicIllness #disability

Luna The Moon Pig: The Pig Who Hid Luna The Moon Pig: The Pig Who Hid [Davies, Suzy, Graber, Sheila] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Luna The Moon Pig: The Pig Who Hid

Celebrate adoption today with this tale of an adopted shelter animal.

www.amazon.com/Luna-Moon-Pi... #pigbook #pigoneer #adoption #adopted #adoptdontshop #uplifting #happilyeverafter #emotions #sentience #animallover #HappyAdoptionDay #diversityandinclusion #selfidentity #selfawareness #selfesteem

Find Your Way Back to Happiness with a Chronic Illness Find your way back to happiness with chronic illness using the Zorro Circle strategy from "The Happiness Advantage". Lisa Alioto shares how.

"When I first became #sick with a #ChronicIllness my #life seemed to stop. Everything, or so it seemed, that I loved vanished in an instant. Adventures with my #friends, dancing late into the night, hard-core workouts…I felt like I had lost myself.": buff.ly/ymnXtQt

by Lisa Alioto
#SelfIdentity

A grime-theater mash-up. A mixed-race man's journey through identity, grime culture, and self-discovery in a divided world.

🖥️: https://tinyurl.com/8hn6fmeh
#grimetheater #selfidentity #booksky

“Certain things lose their power the moment you accept them to be true, because they can no longer prey on your thoughts. Take your self-confidence back.” – Sheryl Chan, A Chronic Voice. (A woman flexes her arm in a look of confidence.)

This was written in my post on the feelings..w the #loss of #SelfIdentity w #ChronicIllness. It can feel defeating..But there is a lot of wonder left in u & who u r as a person is still there deep inside. 👉 buff.ly/WVdH8wO

#MotivationalQuotes #disability

When Chronic Illness Changes Who You Are Living with a chronic health condition doesn't just change what you can do—it changes how you see yourself.

“This internal conflict happens because we often define ourselves by what we do rather than who we are at our core. When #illness limits those activities, it can feel like losing yourself entirely.”: buff.ly/ZnGcM83

by @remotetherapy.space
#SelfIdentity #spoonie #ChronicIllness #disability

Finding Your Self Behind the Illness (Your Story Isn’t Over Yet). Guest post by Callie Dixon of "River and Quill".

"on the onset of a #ChronicDisease, the individual goes through a “biographical disruption”..The blueprint was burned. Our plans were completely robbed by something so unfair and so outside of ourselves and yet it changed everything within.": buff.ly/P8mG1xa

#SelfIdentity

Who am I? Losing Myself to Chronic Illness Grappling with a long list of diagnoses and a neurodivergent child.

“If I didn’t laugh, I’d cry—& honestly, I’ve done enough #crying this year to water several houseplants already. Which is ironic, as I kill houseplants just by looking at them. So I lean into humour like it’s a life raft.”: buff.ly/QPgyNGA

by @vikkyleaney.bsky.social
#SelfIdentity #ChronicIllness

A grime-theater mash-up. A mixed-race man's journey through identity, grime culture, and self-discovery in a divided world.

🖥️: https://tinyurl.com/8hn6fmeh
#grimetheater #selfidentity #booksky

Finding Your Self Behind the Illness (Your Story Isn’t Over Yet)

"It bled into every facet of who I was. Before, I was #healthy. Now I was #sick. Before, I was strong. Now I was weak. Before, I was happy. Now I was #depressed ..I felt like a frail shell of who I was before and I wasn’t sure how to regenerate the flesh.": buff.ly/srl7tK3

#SelfIdentity #NEisVoid

Why Disability Pride Matters Now More Than Ever Celebrate Disability Pride Month and honor the journey toward inclusion. Discover why disability pride is essential now more than ever.

"But when we finally start to #unlearn that #shame, something shifts. We begin to see our needs as valid. We stop #comparing ourselves to an imaginary “before” version. And we give ourselves permission to take up space as we are.": buff.ly/1QQGxwo

by @thethrivingspoonie.com
#SelfIdentity #spoonie

Very excited while preparing my invited plenary at 22nd. National Congress of Italian Society of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy. It is titled "Psychotherapy as a process of identity reconstruction". Looking forward to it (next week)! #psycotherapy #selfidentity #virtualreality

www.sitcc2025.it

#selfidentity #selfconfidence #tolerance #acceptance #innerpeace #inclusion #poem #aphorism #bardtothestars

I have spent thousands of #Lifetimes in this #Construct we call #Earth 🗺️
The majority were spent being brutally persecuted for my #Beliefs & #Speaking out against the #GovernMent and #Elite

This is my last lifetime here 💖 it was about my #SelfIdentity

#MissionCompleted

I Am, That I am !! 🩸

Witness The trouble is, no one ever taught me how to mourn what continues to live inside me.

"Some people describe their #grief as a shadow..Mine is not beside me. It is underneath. I walk across it daily, with deliberate steps. I do not look down. I do not ask it to speak. I pretend it is the ground itself.": buff.ly/xsWJkcp

#MentalHealth #SelfIdentity #human #loss
by Joe Nichols

Please join us tomorrow. Help us support the children impacted by the recent ICE raids in our community.

#activism #socialactivism #mentalhealthactivist #bigkidshit #stopgoingtothecircus #selfidentity #unlearnthatshit #dontaddtothenoise #dobetterbebetter #nodoormatshere #neverfingsettle