Victorian engravers were often incredibly skilled. What looks at first sight to be a quick sketch can be very skilfully put together.

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt/pages/118-sit-and-read/

Here is a piece that looks like a charcoal sketch, but represents an oil painting (linked to in the description). I prefer the engraving here: the lady is actually reading. What do you think?

#fobo #vintageArt #reading #languishing #refined #GIMP #Gimp_3

Scanned with xsane, cleaned up with the GNU Image Manipulation Program.

Languishing: How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down by Corey Keyes

If you’re muddling through the day in a fog, often forgetting why you walked into a room . . .
If you feel emotionally flattened, lacking the energy to socialize or feel joy in the small things . . .
If you feel an inner void—like something is missing, but you aren’t sure what . . .
Then this book is for you.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#languishing
#MentalHealth
#SelfHelp

Have you ever had one of those "meh" days where you're not down in the dumps, but you're definitely not on cloud nine either?

You might be experiencing what's known as "languishing"—that blah feeling where you're stuck in the middle, not quite depressed but far from thriving.

So today, I wanted to share some fun ideas to replace the blah with some bliss.

#Languishing #LowWellbeing #FeelingBlah #FeelingMeh #StuckInARut #MentalFog #UninspiredLife #PositivePsychology #SelfLeadership

We tend to regret NOT having said, done or tried something way more than having taken action (even if it failed or backfired).

Here's a list of what that might include.

I'm not posting this to point the finger - but in the hope that it encourages you to keep this in mind and make choices going forward that lead to a deeply happy and peaceful life 🫶🏼

Dr Maike x

#Regrets #NoRegrets #Flourishing #Languishing

Post COVID, we've heard a lot about quiet quitting work - but I reckon we can also quiet quit in life! Same concept, different context.

Here is what it is - and make sure you read my note on the last slide. Tomorrow I'll share some signs that you might be quiet quitting in life.

#QuietQuitting #QuietQuittingLife #Languishing #FeelingBlah

💭 Are you merely existing or are you truly living?

#FlourishingLife #GroundhogDay #IntentionalLiving #AutopilotLife #Languishing

Trying to shout this one from the rooftops.

#mentalhealth #mentalwellbeing #flourishing #languishing #mentalillness #completementalhealth #positivementalhealth #holistichealth