Amanda Ngo
@manda_ngo
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relearning how to do stuff with presence • REMEMBERING TO PLAY • https://t.co/4uIVpXaEfo Map of the healing space: https://t.co/QjFXmODu4e
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Joined November 2017
I wrote a thing, along with the amazing @joelbot3000 . I'm really proud of it. It's the culmination of a year's worth of wandering around the space of AI governance & wellbeing in awe and confusion.
We hear a lot about “beneficial AI” or AI “aligned with human values” — but what does this mean and how do we get there? @joelbot3000 and @manda_ngo write:
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I am reliably happiest when I have a stable routine, and most likely to feel depressed when I lack structure in my life. it is amazing how many times it feels like I have to learn this.
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Hi friends, I'm about to get kicked out of the US cause my visa expires, so I'm asking the wisdom of the crowd. Does anyone know of any nonprofit / academic roles, ideally related to AI & wellbeing, that sponsor H-1Bs and would be excited about me throwing my energy behind them?.
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I wrote a piece about what the future could *feel* like and why this matters. I want to create this world – if this resonates, let's chat.
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I feel like I've kept kind of quiet about this, but one of the big reasons I stopped working on 'traditional' AI safety / governance work and switched to working on healing is because our level of consciousness as a society is one of the most important factors in how we respond.
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This makes me want to hug GPT-3 and believe in myself <3.
one of the best things to come out of @oughtinc hackathon today: @manda_ngo teaching gpt3 to reframe negative thoughts positively. cc @elicitorg
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something is happening. so many people are having energetic openings and awakenings. it feels like something is starting to break apart, break open, a new wave is coming.
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I, for the first time, really felt the energy body of an intelligent dog today and I am amazed. I could feel what she was needing, feel what was happening in her system in a similar way to humans, feel the energy transferring between us. Feel her tremble as waves processed.
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I came across the concept of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) and how you only have the capacity to handle a certain amount of VUCA across all parts of your life, and I've thought about it like every day for the last month.
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I wish job titles reflected the energetic roles we hold: Person Who Brings Enthusiasm and Excitement, Person Who Holds the Structure of Things, Person Who Grounds Everyone in Reality.
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aight crew, new ideal parent figure course dropping. I am very excited about this. IPF continues to amaze me – it’s an incredibly reliable way to go from super chaotic, in-your-head to resourced and in Self and presence. People have done one pilot study on it and it.
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LLMs should be directed towards human flourishing. I'm organizing a build weekend 9th & 10th June to ideate & prototype how LLMs can improve our wellbeing – register here!
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I want relational meditation to be more of a thing! Meditating in groups (where we're actually speaking to each other / engaging with each others' energies) reliably takes me to amazing places in a way that sitting on my own doesn't.
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yesterday one of my friends called me, late at night, holding so much stress and panic. He didn't have anyone else to share it with. I held space for him, and it was like containing a dam breaking. I felt sadness, and I now feel anger, at the fact that he had been holding so.
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so excited to be part of the team that won the @foresightinst existential hope & transformative AI hackathon $10k grant! We shared our vision for the Flourishing Foundation, designed to direct AI towards what really matters: our well-being & connection w/ self, others, & planet.
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you will never again in your entire life be at the same point in your journey as you are right now. so, you may as well enjoy it.
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Do something. Mess it up. Try again. Love yourself in the process, love the process, keep taking steps. The world needs you to step into who you are.
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1/ Launching 2 new lit review tasks in @elicitorg:. Instead of Googling for hours, give Elicit a topic + examples and get back questions, key terms, and papers you should know about in minutes. Try it out ->
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AI should support our long-term wellbeing. We want AI to enable us to live dramatically more fulfilled, happy, satisfied, abundant lives. I'm excited to share a tool I’ve been working on that makes the effect of LLMs on wellbeing more transparent!.
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I'm currently hiring for a special ops ML intern to do rapid prototyping work testing the limits of GPT-3 in a research / Q&A setting (e.g. can we use GPT-3 to generate potential confounds in a research study?). DM me if this sounds exciting.
E.g. what's the most advanced task you can get GPT-3 to perform? What's the least advanced task it can't? Large language models are so new that you don't need much context to learn something about them that nobody has ever discovered. Then write about it!.
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i feel like we kinda talk about but not enough about how so many meditation teachers are men? I found a female meditation teacher who's super in her sensuality and fire energy, and meditation feels so *good*.
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Last year I did the Purpose Guides Institute 3 month program to discover your soul purpose. It was pretty life changing, in ways that are hard to describe. It was the first time I felt a sustained secure attachment to the universe, which was incredible, and I felt clear.
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My favorite new mantra is ‘what is the best case scenario that can happen?’ Feels like I’m rewiring my nervous system every time I ask this.
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Before words, energy. Many of my parts do not speak mind-language. They speak in pulses, timelessness, waves of emotion that I cannot even name. They feel energetic vacillations in the field like the wind from butterfly wings. I am not listening to your words (I am, I am.
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the five personality patterns were game changing for me, and it turns out there are *more* types in the bioenergetics frame, and chakras / five personality patterns / bioenergetic patterns / enneagram all roughly map onto each other and have developmental explanations and i am so.
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I am reparenting my 2-year-old through the developmental stage of learning what she likes – making decisions, seeing how they feel, changing her mind 2 seconds later, and having it be totally safe (no wrong decisions, just learning your preferences!).
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New in @elicitorg: show just the key claims of a paper. It's fun to answer my questions by skimming a few sentences
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Trying to learn about all the LLM therapy / wellbeing related apps out there today, e.g.:.- - - What have other people found out in the wild?.
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Had an incredible time putting together the Wellbeing <> AI Build Weekend. Huge thank you to @fiftyyears for hosting, & @OpenAI & @AnthropicAI for credits & model access! Was inspiring to glimpse what the future of wellbeing & AI could look like
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Very excited about this!. Having concrete tasks humans care about where LLMs won’t do what we want by default is a helpful step towards having an AI Alignment benchmark we can test diff solutions on.
We’re announcing the Inverse Scaling Prize: a $100k grand prize + $150k in additional prizes for finding an important task where larger language models do *worse*. Link to contest details: 🧵
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ok, manifesting 2 things!! (feel a lil nervous but hey). 1 / Coaching more people!.2 / Finding a part-time job in funding consciousness work / conscious tech (VC / philanthropy / venture studio). more thoughts -->.
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I feel like everyone else has always known this but I'm finally learning how to stop getting distracted by every shiny thing and just double down on my unshiny beliefs.
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my latest thing is relaxing / softening into literally everything. Tension? soften into it. joy? soften into it. big wild crazy energy? soften into it. it feels so helpful for the parts of me that think that I need to 'do' something to process emotions (even if on a really.
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It is 8am in Italy and I am drinking tea in a house with paintings on every spare wall space, books piled on every surface, reading about the Odyssey in the newspaper. It is nice to be surrounded by romance again.
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thinking abt 'healing pods' that hold you tight to make you feel safe while a voice guides u through somatic therapy & AI-generated visual scenes play based on what you're saying w/ high annealing music in the background so you unwind old beliefs. Can't tell if dystopian or epic.
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I cannot describe how incredible it feels for me to tune into people’s souls. Everything else falls away and all I feel is their pure essence, filling my being, marveling at who they are and what they give the world.
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can someone plz make this or tell me if it exists - startup that gives you daily elimination diet meal kits for foods that are probably messing you up (FODMAPS, seed oils) then tracks how you feel so you can fix your whole gut bacteria nutrition situation.
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We made it easier & faster to go from a research question to relevant questions & papers in @elicitorg. It’s starting to feel delightful. Try it out!
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I love how much I love riding trains. Traveling to Bologna today, and I’m excited about Bologna but ngl im also pretty stoked about spending 5 hours on a train there and back. It is the sense of anticipation, the movement, the quiet in my body and mind as the trees and.
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I got an apple watch to test out SoTA on physiological measurement for mental health, and I gotta say, I'm not getting much from it . like, it's cool that I can see a graph of my HRV but what do I *do* with that? has anyone made this work for them.
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had a glorious convo with @nopranablem and got inspired and made this. i think it's going to be fun! come through if u want to try ideal parent figure. (oo oo, i am also really excited about this ipf + parts work approach I have been experimenting with,.
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i am enjoying that this is resonating with so many people <3 maybe now is a good time to mention i have a coaching practice, and often work with people around their relationship to work & purpose, if u want support with this :)
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A small list of ideas I made of how to stay sane during social distancing ✨✨
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Experimenting with using LMs to run the Ideal Parent Figure Protocol. I've been doing IPF for the last 8 mos, and it's been the most effective therapy I've done. And it follows a discernible decision tree!. I think it works pretty well, have had a few catharsis moments from it :)
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man, coaching people is just so incredibly precious. like, this human is trusting me to be with them in their emotions, and we get to experience all of this chaotic beauty together? wowow.
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We live in a magical world. All of the things are true. I feel like I am discovering a fantasy novel.
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@aadithyacdas yes it is astounding how long it takes me to realize. like I'm like wow I'm kind of depressed what's going on and then I look back on my week and realize I haven't had a consistent sleep / wake up time in 6 days and I'm like ohhhh.
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.@elicitorg now gives you the one sentence from each abstract that's most relevant to your question:
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I’m putting together an Ideal Parent Figure therapy workshop w/ my IPF guru in 2 weeks! IPF has been wildly transformative for me + a bunch of my friends, feels like an undiscovered gem of a modality. I’ve also been working on an AI tool for attachment repair that we’ll share at
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Structuring my life to allow this feels really good. Not beating her up anymore (like, why can't u make decisions and stick to them like a normal adult??), but allowing myself to book last minute flights, decide things day by day, until she feels more confident in what she wants.
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something I am seeing a lot is that people try to push anger out. sometimes this is helpful to clear the pipes, but often it kinda misses the actual spot. The satisfying release often comes from going slow, staying right next to the charge and letting it build.
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@Conaw @RoamResearch So glad you found this Conor!! Have been very happily using Roam and wanted to share that with people!.
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@robertwiblin Paddy Power and PredictIt also predict fewer electoral college votes for Biden than 538:
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this week's launch: top papers in @elicitorg are better! we now rank by citation count, recency, and whether the paper answers your question
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delightfully crazy idea i had – could advanced meditation practitioners detect if AI is conscious by tuning into its consciousness? we can do this with humans, trees, etc – like, we can sense the presence of life energy through awareness.
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I was extremely astounded how much sleep masks made a difference in an already pretty dark room. Wonder how much cognitive overhead & underlying stress it adds to filter out noise and light all the time.
underdiscussed potential benefit of remote work: employees become more productive as they move to less urban areas because less noise and light pollution disrupting sleep @manda_ngo.
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as a side note, I feel an increasing importance of this work as we get closer to AGI. Our default / shallow / parts-driven purposes are about to get shaken up, and are not very stable foundations. But our soul purpose is our reason for being here _right now_, in this moment in.
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We're particularly excited about a well-being certification: a public eval & rating of the effect of AI products on our wellbeing. Here's a janky demo we made by evaling Reddit threads about @youper_ai (~AI therapist) and @MyReplika (~AI gf) w/ the UK wellbeing dashboard metrics
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I am still a baby at this, but I'm starting to notice my energetic intuition growing in my coaching sessions. Sometimes it shows up as phrases – a phrase will just pop into my knowing-body, and I'll share it, and something will unlock in their system. Sometimes it'll be a sense
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I sort of just sat down and wrote this map of the healing space all at once, like many months worth of digesting and systematizing healing purging itself out of me onto the page. feels very satisfying (link in bio)
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a sweet little nugget found in my journal:. Unfolding according to Soul is so much fun. It is like you are on a scavenger hunt made just for you by someone who knows you so well and who loves you deeply. There is a personal myth out there just for you, and you get to discover it.
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Prepping an exercise where you just behold the other person as the most special being in the universe for a minute and a half while they receive it and . damn . literally a minute of that a day and I think I'd just be healed.
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increasingly often having the experience of feeling super stuck and out of connection with myself, then taking a few hours to full terror scream into a pillow, and then being just like, a clear energy channel again. Makes me feel like I’ve just been emotionally constipated my.
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Has anyone tried personal assistant services they actually found helpful? Any recs?.
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so many hangouts I try to schedule die in the coordination valley of doom and so I have set up a calendly for people to just book hangouts and this may transform everything, stay tuned.
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I've been working on a lil tool that lets people give feedback on how LLM applications affect their wellbeing, and aggregates it into a ranked dashboard. It's almost done! Hmu if you're down to do some testing / give feedback
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The more I think about how all our systems should be optimized around human wellbeing, the more viscerally awful it feels to read things like people being called 'consumers'. Like, how are we letting this be a thing?.
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i keep being like 'it's all about play!' in the stuff i'm creating and then i forget and take it too seriously. do you guys have advice for remembering to be playful in creation?.
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I have been so lucky to get to experience Dennis' coaching a handful of times. I have been struck by his patience, his non-agenda'dness, and his humility to let whatever is there unfold. I felt such a sense of loving, patient companionship by my side as I went to all these.
“What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”. These last few years I’ve been guided by the living question of purpose. The answer continues to evolve (and shorten) as life unfolds — maybe I’m nearing the essence. How can I guide people toward freer.
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question, does anyone know if there are like physical touch therapy devices out there? like I'm thinking a wrap that goes around my back and chest and back of my neck that's warm and maybe has some like energy running through it and i can fall asleep like a little baby.
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So grateful to @foresightinst and @FLI_org for putting this together and cultivating such a wonderful group of people, and also @jelennal_, @isahampt , @MingzhuHe1 and Chiara Gerosa for being a fire team to work with!.
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That moment when the barista asking for your name messes you up because who are you?? And what is the cluster of concepts that surrounds your name and why do you identify with them??.
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Hmu if you’re a designer and want to help us figure out how to make research & truth-finding feel fast, intuitive, delightful (it is really quite fun).
So @jungofthewon gave me the breakdown of today. If you're a designer thinking about the future. The opportunity here to design the composition tools for building a personal, more human AI assistant is huge. What an insanely fun opportunity.
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I can’t help feeling that, aside from being an incredible piece of art, this video and song embodies what it means to be securely attached.- relationship seems not so good.- maybe time to admit it’s time to move on.- hey, I’m going to fall asleep okay, and look, I have dreams I.
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hi, does anyone want to tell me all about their relationship with wellbeing? I wanna know the deets – what makes you happy? What makes you miserable? What strategies have worked for you? DM me if you're down to chat about this!!.
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like okay I am truly not an expert and mostly feel at sea when people talk about all the buddhist dogma, but afaict we're not doing a lot of like, classic concentration practices. It feels very energetic, and I'm kinda like riding my energetic wave into awake awareness.
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more broadly, it was such a body-felt relief to be in a room of people who I didn't need to convince that we should do more than risk mitigation. Risk mitigation is important, but knowing where we want to go (what is the positive vision of the future we want?) is also crucial.
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-> developmental patterns = very predictive sources of suffering.-> chakras linked to developmental patterns.-> we can measure chakras using gas discharge visualization (GDV).-> we can measure progress on healing developmental patterns.
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I’m in the market for a new home city outside the US. Any pitches?.
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apps for this close tomorrow!. I did this last year. It's hard to put in words how precious of an experience this was, but to attempt: ~11 incredible facilitators are there to hold space for and meet anything coming up in you with love, for a month, with profound safety and.
Had a lovely walk with the founder of Sleep Awake. I really admire how much thought they are putting into supporting attendees during and post event. Sleepawake Camp is focused on orienting 18 - 30 yr olds towards a sense of wholeness and authentic happiness through science,.
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if you were to direct a movie showing what a psychologically healthy future could look like, what would the plot be?.
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hypothetically if I were to run some kind of exploratory thing on Working from Presence what would people be excited about.
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I googled it to find a link to share with you guys and found that there's this whole film on it and it actually looks kinda cool?
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we need so many more people aboard this boat with us. If this sparks anything (and especially if you're excited to work on a well-being certification) reach out!!.
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I have been playing with making a space to find embodied practitioners and I just found this, and tbh it looks epic
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2. Help products that direct AI towards wellbeing win. Imagine a version of ChatGPT that was incredibly good at understanding & supporting your quest for meaning, that you wanted to use more than the existing ChatGPT – we want to make good outcomes the default.
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we're in this super fun phase where it's so easy to code an app with ChatGPT, and there's still value add of coding apps (before AI automates most coding). I'm having a blast tinkering away.
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I often find it more healing to give than to receive. My little one has all these trust walls up around receiving love that are slowly coming down, but as soon as it's her turn to give, she's like BEHOLD I am a glowing beacon of love!!!!.
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What are everyone’s favorite poems? The ones that make your heart ache a little? I’m convalescing from covid and need some good reading material.
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hello I am doing some crowdsourcing of the most impactful psychological techniques that people have tried! I'm excited about collecting a database of resources, to make the process less haphazard. Would love for people to share what's worked for them:
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I think i learned to associate having a good, novel belief with feeling outrage, but now it's quieter, like . ah yes, world does not appreciate this yet, I will just quietly do something about that over here don't mind me.
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I've spent so long doing deep emotional work, I forgot how *fun* it is to write product specs eep.
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