Lil Ng
@epiphanyseeker.bsky.social
Doctor | prison forensic psychiatrist | University of Auckland | El Camino pilgrim | Jungian-oriented | Chinese New Zealander | researcher in women’s mental health interested in links between attachment and trauma
When you are a companion to someone healing from hurt Irvin D. Yalom speaks about the hour of the heart, qualities of the relationship, empathy, desire and ability to truly see the other and willingness to give honest feedback that we seldom otherwise get in regular life. #HealingJourney
November 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
When you are a companion to someone healing from hurt Irvin D. Yalom speaks about the hour of the heart, qualities of the relationship, empathy, desire and ability to truly see the other and willingness to give honest feedback that we seldom otherwise get in regular life. #HealingJourney
People suffer. They live, they hope, they even have love, and they suffer. Who in this whole entire world does not want to be heard? -Elizabeth Strout in Tell Me Everything #HumanSuffering
Wise insights on loss, trauma, feeling connected and less alone from @lizstrout.bsky.social
Wise insights on loss, trauma, feeling connected and less alone from @lizstrout.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
People suffer. They live, they hope, they even have love, and they suffer. Who in this whole entire world does not want to be heard? -Elizabeth Strout in Tell Me Everything #HumanSuffering
Wise insights on loss, trauma, feeling connected and less alone from @lizstrout.bsky.social
Wise insights on loss, trauma, feeling connected and less alone from @lizstrout.bsky.social
Science is powerless to answer: “Why did the universe come into being? What is the meaning of human existence? What happens after we die? -Francis Collins on the Language of God and the power of scientific and spiritual perspectives to understand what is both seen and unseen #ScienceandFaith
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Science is powerless to answer: “Why did the universe come into being? What is the meaning of human existence? What happens after we die? -Francis Collins on the Language of God and the power of scientific and spiritual perspectives to understand what is both seen and unseen #ScienceandFaith
Inner growth is a process of learning where the individual cultivates a quietness of mind that allows heartfelt emotional awareness. It is a way to bring our inner experience to the fore. -Bell Hooks on #CriticalThinking and encounters with the sacred, healing and wholeness #CollectiveConsciousness
November 19, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Inner growth is a process of learning where the individual cultivates a quietness of mind that allows heartfelt emotional awareness. It is a way to bring our inner experience to the fore. -Bell Hooks on #CriticalThinking and encounters with the sacred, healing and wholeness #CollectiveConsciousness
With integration, we see ourselves with an expanded identity. When we embrace the reality of this interconnection, being considerate and concerned with the larger world becomes a fundamental shift in our way of living. -Daniel J. Siegel on seeing the mind clearly #IntegratedMind #mindsight
November 16, 2025 at 5:10 AM
With integration, we see ourselves with an expanded identity. When we embrace the reality of this interconnection, being considerate and concerned with the larger world becomes a fundamental shift in our way of living. -Daniel J. Siegel on seeing the mind clearly #IntegratedMind #mindsight
Will our seeker watch out for the warning sign? Will she step into the puddle and fall into the deep? When life goes topsy-turvy we must discern where the danger lies. #MindfulNavigation
November 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Will our seeker watch out for the warning sign? Will she step into the puddle and fall into the deep? When life goes topsy-turvy we must discern where the danger lies. #MindfulNavigation
Your opponents would love you to believe it’s hopeless, you have no power, there’s no reason to act, you can’t win. Hope is a gift you don’t have to surrender, a power you don’t have to throw away.
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on facing reality and shifting consciousness #HopeIsPower
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on facing reality and shifting consciousness #HopeIsPower
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Your opponents would love you to believe it’s hopeless, you have no power, there’s no reason to act, you can’t win. Hope is a gift you don’t have to surrender, a power you don’t have to throw away.
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on facing reality and shifting consciousness #HopeIsPower
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on facing reality and shifting consciousness #HopeIsPower
Planetary boundaries guide humanity’s future on earth. Six of nine planetary boundaries including climate change,biodiversity and freshwater use are transgressed, posing serious threats to Earth’s stability. www.planetaryaccounting.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Planetary boundaries guide humanity’s future on earth. Six of nine planetary boundaries including climate change,biodiversity and freshwater use are transgressed, posing serious threats to Earth’s stability. www.planetaryaccounting.org
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -Margaret Mead is convinced that genuine interest and motivation are valuable qualities in problem solving, perhaps even more than expertise alone #CollectiveAction
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -Margaret Mead is convinced that genuine interest and motivation are valuable qualities in problem solving, perhaps even more than expertise alone #CollectiveAction
Our world is a mess. It faces challenges few are prepared to confront. Littered with governments that lie, led by people who can’t or shouldn’t be allowed to lead. No surprise so many of us feel angry, frustrated and let down. -Alistair Campbell on asking ‘But what can I do?’ #Accountability #Change
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Our world is a mess. It faces challenges few are prepared to confront. Littered with governments that lie, led by people who can’t or shouldn’t be allowed to lead. No surprise so many of us feel angry, frustrated and let down. -Alistair Campbell on asking ‘But what can I do?’ #Accountability #Change
When walking on dirt paths through the landscape we learn to slow our pace, conscious of deeper distinctions between one hill and another. -Karen Armstrong on ritual, contemplation and ‘kenosis’ the act of emptying the self, to more fully exist in sacred nature #SpiritualAwakening
November 10, 2025 at 7:23 AM
When walking on dirt paths through the landscape we learn to slow our pace, conscious of deeper distinctions between one hill and another. -Karen Armstrong on ritual, contemplation and ‘kenosis’ the act of emptying the self, to more fully exist in sacred nature #SpiritualAwakening
What do you care what other people think? We should listen and take into account other people’s opinions. If they don’t make sense and we think they’re wrong, that’s that! Our responsibility is to do and learn what we can, improve solutions and pass them on. -Richard P. Feynman #CriticalThinking
November 9, 2025 at 7:12 AM
What do you care what other people think? We should listen and take into account other people’s opinions. If they don’t make sense and we think they’re wrong, that’s that! Our responsibility is to do and learn what we can, improve solutions and pass them on. -Richard P. Feynman #CriticalThinking
Emotional labour is unpaid unnoticed work, orchestrating life in
ways that lead to smooth-running relationships at home and work. Even in delegating you are tending to others’ emotional needs expending your time, energy, and mental space. Is it only ours to do? -Gemma Hartley #ProgressiveWorkplace
ways that lead to smooth-running relationships at home and work. Even in delegating you are tending to others’ emotional needs expending your time, energy, and mental space. Is it only ours to do? -Gemma Hartley #ProgressiveWorkplace
November 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Emotional labour is unpaid unnoticed work, orchestrating life in
ways that lead to smooth-running relationships at home and work. Even in delegating you are tending to others’ emotional needs expending your time, energy, and mental space. Is it only ours to do? -Gemma Hartley #ProgressiveWorkplace
ways that lead to smooth-running relationships at home and work. Even in delegating you are tending to others’ emotional needs expending your time, energy, and mental space. Is it only ours to do? -Gemma Hartley #ProgressiveWorkplace
When thinking leads to the unthinkable, it is time to return to simple life. What thinking cannot solve, life solves, and what action never decides is reserved for thinking. The true way does not lead upward but towards the depths. -CG Jung on quiet wisdom when there are no answers #DeepThinking
November 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
When thinking leads to the unthinkable, it is time to return to simple life. What thinking cannot solve, life solves, and what action never decides is reserved for thinking. The true way does not lead upward but towards the depths. -CG Jung on quiet wisdom when there are no answers #DeepThinking
Emotional connection is a basic human need, to adapt and grow, feel at home in our relationships, be truly ourselves, feel safe in our home and body, to uncover ways to be with self and each other, to feel heard, valued, respected, allowed to be different and loved. -Julia Samuels #HumanConnection
November 6, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Emotional connection is a basic human need, to adapt and grow, feel at home in our relationships, be truly ourselves, feel safe in our home and body, to uncover ways to be with self and each other, to feel heard, valued, respected, allowed to be different and loved. -Julia Samuels #HumanConnection
When talking to people who have suffered greatly, you need to accept their feelings, also accept that the true cause of their suffering and anger was not you. A stark reminder of #fragility and #loss, and the terrible possibilities of life. -Robin Ince on the importance of being interested
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
When talking to people who have suffered greatly, you need to accept their feelings, also accept that the true cause of their suffering and anger was not you. A stark reminder of #fragility and #loss, and the terrible possibilities of life. -Robin Ince on the importance of being interested
Motherhood is like a relay race, a journey whose purpose is to pass on the baton of life, all work and heat one moment, mere spectatorship the next, a team enterprise where stardom is endlessly configured, transformed. -Rachel Cusk on a life’s work, on watching the present become the past #authentic
November 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Motherhood is like a relay race, a journey whose purpose is to pass on the baton of life, all work and heat one moment, mere spectatorship the next, a team enterprise where stardom is endlessly configured, transformed. -Rachel Cusk on a life’s work, on watching the present become the past #authentic
No story exists by itself. Sometimes stories meet each other or cover each other completely, like stones in a river. Sit in the rushing water, the stones of our stories all around us beneath the surface, one touching another. -Mitch Albom on connecting with five people you meet in heaven #authentic
November 3, 2025 at 6:38 AM
No story exists by itself. Sometimes stories meet each other or cover each other completely, like stones in a river. Sit in the rushing water, the stones of our stories all around us beneath the surface, one touching another. -Mitch Albom on connecting with five people you meet in heaven #authentic
The energy of grief is endowed with more vital force than the destructive energy of avoidance. And that force will, one day, be the very movement that saves our own lives and maybe the very worthy lives of many others. -Joanne Cacciatore www.centerforlossandtrauma.com/an-open-lett...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The energy of grief is endowed with more vital force than the destructive energy of avoidance. And that force will, one day, be the very movement that saves our own lives and maybe the very worthy lives of many others. -Joanne Cacciatore www.centerforlossandtrauma.com/an-open-lett...
Greenlights mean go. Catching greenlights is about skill: intent, context, consideration, endurance, anticipation, resilience, speed, and discipline. -Matthew McConaughey on the #soul objective, catching #greenlights and realising that yellows and reds eventually turn green
October 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Greenlights mean go. Catching greenlights is about skill: intent, context, consideration, endurance, anticipation, resilience, speed, and discipline. -Matthew McConaughey on the #soul objective, catching #greenlights and realising that yellows and reds eventually turn green
In God Is An Octopus Ben Goldsmith writes about the weight of loss which we carry around always. But smoother with time, no less heavy, rounded at the edges and warm. Pain diffused by the strange twinkling of a feeling that our loved one is close by even if we cannot see them. #grief #love #nature
October 30, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I am the #trauma you bury away. I am the lie you hold under your tongue, the thing you bury, vanish, erase, the thing you can almost pretend is forgotten as long as you don’t touch it. #Wisdom following the trail of our Chinese ancestors - @stephaniefoo.bsky.social on words for what her bones know
October 26, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I am the #trauma you bury away. I am the lie you hold under your tongue, the thing you bury, vanish, erase, the thing you can almost pretend is forgotten as long as you don’t touch it. #Wisdom following the trail of our Chinese ancestors - @stephaniefoo.bsky.social on words for what her bones know
When we are in intense #grief we get stuck in the ruminating story we tell ourselves. Stretched to breaking point we have little capacity to incorporate each other’s narratives of loss. #Wisdom comes from being supple enough to gain a new perspective. -Julia Samuels on living with #loss
October 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM