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With so much gratitude! 💛

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So thrilled you're in my inbox.

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Thank you! Love this.

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Thank you for mentioning my newsletter- and for expanding on it! Yes, that knowledge of what work style works best for you is indeed essential and what I was trying to show. 😊

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I'm going to spend a wonderfully long time on this edition, reading lots of the amazing pieces you've linked to! I'm glad to have discovered your post on the depression spectrum as circle, spiral, or keyboard (it makes me think deeply about some of my own family-history stories), and I particularly loved the excerpts on rejection and the art of pivoting, to name just two.

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Thank you so much. If you have any additional thoughts on the spectrum framework, I'm always happy to hear about them/chat/whatever.

There are such great writings here on Substack every week. It's truly a delight for me to immerse myself in them.

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I so appreciate that! My mom dealt with treatment-resistant depression, but she wasn't open about it (at least with her kids) until very late in life. So while I don't have any wisdom to share on the topic, learning more about the spectrum framework helps me understand her experience just a little bit better—which is very meaningful. ❤️

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Big hugs for you and your mom around that challenge. As I think I mentioned in the article, my father lived with undiagnosed depression, maybe bipolar, and although he's gone now I still have some continued grappling today with his story's impact on my own ... these frameworks help. I'm thinking of the double helix and how we're intertwined although that's not quite right.

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Big hugs right back atcha, especially as you continue grappling with the legacy of family history. These challenges aren't easy to navigate during life, and they don't simply disappear when our loved ones are gone.

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Thank you for sharing, Kathryn!

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I absolutely love this approach to Sci-Friday!

Kathryn, you really made this "assignment" your own here, and wrote the perfect piece to compliment what you do here.

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I am happy to bring a different perspective and to check out everyone else’s posts with that lens

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Thank you for mentioning my newsletter, Kathryn! And for another fab round up of posts. I have a couple articles saved for my weekend reading, can’t wait to dive in!

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Hope you enjoy! Would love to hear your thoughts on any of them if you get the chance.

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I really liked the piece on the shadow, and that we allow our shadow side to play and express itself when we create...that makes sense, when I think about how ungrounded and out of sorts I can often feel if I ignore my creative work for too long.

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That was a piece I really loved as well.

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thank you, little voice. all through our transformations we hear what Gretel Ehrilch called 'the double voice':

"one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call ‘aware’—an almost untranslatable word meaning something like 'beauty tinged with sadness.’"

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Beautiful. Thank you for sharing that.

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Well Written! Loved it!!!!

BTW can you plz help me grow on substack? Even I an in the race of gaining my first 10 FOLLOWERS.

Thanks!

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Another comprehensive and inspiring compilation, thank you Kathryn! Such food for thought and insights into great minds 💚

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So many amazing minds here to converse with!

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