111 Days Left Until the End of 2019
Wigg’s Wednesdays is here again to share inspirational content on life hacks, self-development, sustainability, personal finance, minimalism, and travel tips.
My heart is feeling full this week, with lots of fun ideas brewing away and sense of abundance of friendship (new and old). Sending some of these good vibes your way!
Enjoy your week. x Michelle Wigg
This Week’s Favourites
READ: “We Aren’t Just Vehicles for your Guilt and Privilege”: A View from Nepal – LearningService, as found via WhyDev
An uncomfortable but important read. The self-development I experienced on a charity volunteering trip abroad has since become associated with a feeling of unease when I reflect back. Well, you live and learn.
“Why on earth would a woman from rural Nepal need a pasty white woman from the suburbs of New York to teach her about empowerment? It’s like force-feeding a child powdered milk made from fancy formulas when he was doing just fine with breast milk. Rural women in Nepal need to learn from women in their own context about what empowerment means here.”
WATCH: A Unique Way to Connect with Strangers – ABC Arts
This is gorgeous and made even better by the fact that this was my bus route in Adelaide.
Isolated and lonely in a new city, artist Grant Parke found connection in an unexpected place — drawing “every person on the B10 bus”
READ: How Self-Compassion Can Help You Cope With Adversity: 3 Steps To Improve Your Resilience – Hanna Hart, Forbes
We wouldn’t speak to a friend as negatively as the way we do to ourselves in inner talk. Offer yourself some kindness and let me know what you discover from doing so.
Rather than making global evaluations of ourselves as ‘good’ or ‘bad,’ self-compassion involves generating kindness toward ourselves as imperfect humans, and learning to be present with the inevitable struggles of life with greater ease. It motivates us to make needed changes in our lives not because we’re worthless or inadequate, but because we care about ourselves and want to lessen our suffering.”
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