For this week's Good Enough I wanted to share something a little different: Below is a list of self-care links and reframing resources gleaned from a special Reframeables Live event that my sister and I hosted in Toronto last night. I hope you enjoy this curated list of ideas shared by some very smart folks who chose to hang out with us mid-week on a school night!
If you're newer to the Reframeables story...it's a podcast that my sister Rebecca and I started two years ago where we try to reframe life's big and small challenges with the help of writers, artists and thinkers. Experiences of teaching and learning are threaded through every episode so I think you'll connect with our conversations, especially if you're taking something away from Good Enough. You can find the podcast on all the big (and most smaller) platforms.
Take care,
Natalie
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Now for the list…
Natalie - Cold plunge baths! 60 seconds is where I’m at right now but I want to build up to three minutes. It’s supposed to be a healthy practice for my vascular issues — and the mental fortitude it takes to just get in the icy tub helps me to reframe what’s hard…in my day, relationships, life in general.
Mallory - City of Ghosts is an animated show that I have watched with my kids three times over! It offers gentle reframing of uncomfortable situations that we work through together.
Jackie - The Mindvalley app is a self-help app that asks big questions of life and of the self with me.
Selina - a special combo of Pilates and HIIT and Yoga all rolled into one. This class I go to is like a release. It’s hot, I sweat and then let it all go. The end of the class culminates in a grounding moment where I truly feel cleared.
Heather - Taylor Swift’s Folklore and walking are the reframing duo I need. Music and nature!
Mary - Denison Avenue is a work of visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vulnerable Chinese Canadian elders. Though not normally my thing, because I was writing a review I had to have an open mind — and that was a reframing moment for me. In reading the Toisan language components that were written phonetically, I imagined being in the character’s place, both in her mind and her circuits around Kensington and all the surrounding streets. Truly place-based reframing on the page.
Jessica - bell hooks’ wonderful book All About Love.
Also! Special Topics in Being a Human (written by S. Bear Bergman images by Saul Freedman Lawson). This is a self-help book written in a the style of a comic book style. It’s profound, intelligent, funny, open hearted…an invitation to see other people with compassion.
Jared - My reframing tool is a soundtrack by the band Water Liars. Their band name comes from a Barry Hannah short story and when their soundtrack is on my wife knows I’m working through something.
Renee - For me action is clarity. Drawing or working out are examples in my life of acts that help to bring clarity but thinking about things is also an act for me…and it all starts with vulnerability.
Avery - The ongoing practice of reflection is how I reframe. I have reframed my whole career as a teacher in this way!
P.S. Our next live even will be in August. Stay tuned for details! In the meantime we have a cookbook for sale over on Ko-fi. Also, should you choose to become a regular supporter through Patreon, you get access to bonus episodes!
xo Nat and Bec