#being-seen — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #being-seen, aggregated by home.social.
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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Finding connections…
As most of you who follow my posts here know, I have been single for almost 8 years now. And, I think I am doing OK most of the time. But, sometimes, things happen, and I get these intense feelings/emotions of sadness/loneliness. A little while ago, I shared how I was triggered by something into these feelings, and how I reached out to a sweet friend, who gave me the support that I craved so badly at that time. For those who missed it, the post can be found here: Social interaction. And I think this post, is a follow-up on that post, in a way... […]https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/27/finding-connections/
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Finding connections…
As most of you who follow my posts here know, I have been single for almost 8 years now. And, I think I am doing OK most of the time. But, sometimes, things happen, and I get these intense feelings/emotions of sadness/loneliness. A little while ago, I shared how I was triggered by something into these feelings, and how I reached out to a sweet friend, who gave me the support that I craved so badly at that time. For those who missed it, the post can be found here: Social interaction. And I think this post, is a follow-up on that post, in a way... […]https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/27/finding-connections/
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50 lives ago, I was jealous of her, but now it seems like I dodged a bullet…
When I was 14 and had just started going in and out of the recording studio, an artist named Sarah Jaffe in the DFW area where I was born and raised was starting to get big on the local scene.
Being the teenager bursting with insane, almost suicidal ambition that I was, I wished so badly that that could be me somehow. I had just released my debut extended play, Sweet Pea, that year, and even though everyone who heard it loved it, it really never sold outside of my friends and family that I know of.
I felt like I had failed. I craved all of the attention that my family didn’t give me, and witnessing Sarah Jaffe’s rise to prominence filled me with a secret envy. We were from the same place, we both wrote music, we both had professionally recorded work, we both played live when we could. What was I missing? Why wasn’t I getting noticed outside of my social circle?
Don’t get me wrong, I loved her music – I still do. This is intended to be more of a reflection of my emotional state at that time than any kind of a dig at her. That’s part of why I think it got to me so bad. I legitimately enjoyed what she created. I just wanted what she had, as well. I played her song “Clementine” on repeat regularly throughout my teens, as I deeply related to it. I wished I could be “more delicate”, as she put it, as I was so intense and driven that it frightened many of my teenage suitors away, with the exception of my future first husband, who was taken with my intensity and drive when we first met at 14 and 15 respectively, although he would not admit it until many years later.
When she released an alternate version of “Clementine” on her album The Way Sound Leaves a Room a few years later that was stripped back to nothing but piano, her voice, and haunting backing vocals, I fell in love with it even more deeply. For the first time, it felt like I truly understood and felt the song’s essence, as I often do when artists release extremely scaled back versions of their music. By that time I had also fallen in love with her song “Mannequin Woman” and started teaching myself music production when my longtime producer ditched me, got a publishing deal, and made off for Los Angeles and stopped returning my calls, taking the rights to Sweet Pea in the process.
I also worked through my envy over the years as I realized that I didn’t really want to be famous, as attention scared me just as badly as I craved it. Getting recognized on the street when I was gigging around Mormon college scared me about as straight as I’ll ever be, although I kept songwriting. I don’t know if I’ll ever stop, even though I go through a lot of dry spells nowadays.
And then in 2024, as news of the Diddy scandal broke, I worked through the rest of my envy as I realized that I probably dodged a bullet by not becoming famous as a teenager. I had had a shitty enough time growing up with a highly controlling mother. I don’t think that, had my singing or songwriting career progressed any further than it did at the time, I would have fared any better at the hands of industry executives, and I learned an early lesson to trust nobody with the rights to my music when my producer left without any real trace. He’d likely been an anomaly, as well, by treating me as an equal collaborator when we recorded Sweet Pea, and not trying to change things too much unless I requested he do so.
So, in summary… I still love Sarah Jaffe’s music. I don’t have any envy towards her anymore. I was an overly ambitious, precocious kid who also knew nothing about what I would have been getting myself into had things progressed. And honestly, now that I’m 29, I relate to these lyrics from “Clementine” even more.
“We were young,
We were young,
We were young, we didn’t care
Is it gone
Oh it’s gone
Oh it’s floating in the air?
I changed my mind
I changed my mind
How I feel indifferent
All that time, wasted
I wish I was a little more delicate”-Allēna
#beingSeen #envy #fame #Fang #Fear #Hera #intensity #MormonCollege #music #ramble #reflections #SarahJaffe #sophomorism #teenageYears #trauma -
I met someone who had only just found the word for what they are. The relief radiating off them was so powerful I had to sit down. Words matter. Recognition matters. Being seen matters enormously. #LwaxanaTroi #BeingSeen #AllStarTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TNG #StarTrekDS9 #DS9 #Mastodon
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I met someone who had only just found the word for what they are. The relief radiating off them was so powerful I had to sit down. Words matter. Recognition matters. Being seen matters enormously. #LwaxanaTroi #BeingSeen #AllStarTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TNG #StarTrekDS9 #DS9 #Mastodon
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The inner path doesn’t reward performance. It asks for presence, courage, and the willingness to be seen without certainty or applause.
Quiet work. Brave work.
#InnerJourney #BeingSeen #EmotionalTruth #DaringGreatly #Emberhart -
Now out of the hospital and the occupational/physical therapy evaluator came by to review my situation. While my issue was unrelated to #cfs describing my capacity and endurance caused me to mention PEM and she knew exactly what I was talking about.
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Now out of the hospital and the occupational/physical therapy evaluator came by to review my situation. While my issue was unrelated to #cfs describing my capacity and endurance caused me to mention PEM and she knew exactly what I was talking about.
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Courage of Joy 2/10 Vulnerability is a paradox: the last thing I want you to see in me—and the very first thing I search for in you. 💫 #EmotionalTruth #BeingSeen #HumanConnection
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SPEAKING SHAME 4/10 We cannot dare greatly if we are terrified of being seen. Shame convinces us that visibility is dangerous. It whispers: What will they think? 😶 #DaringGreatly #BeingSeen #VulnerabilityWork
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A8: Given we in Europe just switched the clocks from summertime to wintertime, here are some pics embracing the joy of having proper lighting on your cycle for #BeingSeen + wearing #HiViz clothes in the spirit of #VisionZero.
One is even #Halloween themed, although this was unintentional. 😇
(And no, this isn't #VictimBlaming 🙄, it's just common sense. Riding in black clothes w/o light in the night doesn't help anyone.)
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@ascentale @bikenite #BikeNite A8: Given we in Europe just switched the clocks from summertime to wintertime, here are some pics embracing the joy of having proper lighting on your cycle for #BeingSeen + wearing #HiViz clothes in the spirit of #VisionZero.
One is even #Halloween themed, although this was unintentional. 😇
(And no, this isn't #VictimBlaming 🙄, it's just common sense. Riding in black clothes w/o light in the night doesn't help anyone.)
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This is absolutely brilliant. Thanks for writing and sharing it @rands.
#blog #compliments #acknowledgement #beingseen #goodhumans
https://mastodon.social/@rands/115248312551252215 -
This is absolutely brilliant. Thanks for writing and sharing it @rands.
#blog #compliments #acknowledgement #beingseen #goodhumans
https://mastodon.social/@rands/115248312551252215 -
How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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How can we make it easy for participants to be safely and truly heard and seen at meetings?
#meetings #EventDesign #BeingSeen #BeingHeard #community #connection #listening #safety #eventprofs
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#Quotes #BeingHuman #Empathy #BeingHeard #BeingSeen
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person. -Virginia Satir, psychotherapist and author (26 Jun 1916-1988) -
#Quotes #BeingHuman #Empathy #BeingHeard #BeingSeen
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood, and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person. -Virginia Satir, psychotherapist and author (26 Jun 1916-1988) -
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Do you have a secret admirer? Would you dress finer and walk more confidently if you knew that you did?
https://www.catherineiversnorton.com/
#ReadTheStain #writer #blogger #coach #psychology #spirituality #mentalhealth #mindfulness #awareness #confidence #attention #beingseen #youmatter
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So, here's the thing. You can't #give what you haven't been given.
You have to have been given the #BenefitOfTheDoubt, a #grace, an #understanding, a #patience, a #listening, a #BeingSeen and heard, a #compassion in order to be able to give it to others.
One, so you recognise it. And two, so you have enough to give.But here's also the thing:
what you haven't been given, because for whatever reason others ran short, you can be the one to give it to yourself first. -
So, here's the thing. You can't #give what you haven't been given.
You have to have been given the #BenefitOfTheDoubt, a #grace, an #understanding, a #patience, a #listening, a #BeingSeen and heard, a #compassion in order to be able to give it to others.
One, so you recognise it. And two, so you have enough to give.But here's also the thing:
what you haven't been given, because for whatever reason others ran short, you can be the one to give it to yourself first.