Beth Bonness
@bethbonness.com
Writer (memoir-in-process). Poet. Vegan chef. Creator of thought echoes blog & podcast 🎧. Exploring the ripple effects of our thoughts, chasing sunsets & vegan umami.
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What if everything you've been doing about stress is wrong?
"So for me, the big aha moment was recognizing that joy is a wellness strategy, because when we feel joy, the scientific makeup of joy actually builds resilience. ” — Amy Leneker
#stress #resilence
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/amy-...
"So for me, the big aha moment was recognizing that joy is a wellness strategy, because when we feel joy, the scientific makeup of joy actually builds resilience. ” — Amy Leneker
#stress #resilence
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/amy-...
January 9, 2026 at 1:47 AM
What if everything you've been doing about stress is wrong?
"So for me, the big aha moment was recognizing that joy is a wellness strategy, because when we feel joy, the scientific makeup of joy actually builds resilience. ” — Amy Leneker
#stress #resilence
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/amy-...
"So for me, the big aha moment was recognizing that joy is a wellness strategy, because when we feel joy, the scientific makeup of joy actually builds resilience. ” — Amy Leneker
#stress #resilence
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/amy-...
To start the new year revisit 3 of the most listened to podcasts exploring the nature of our thoughts & their ripple effects.
Happy New Year!
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/caro...
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/dr-n...
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/hrun...
@hrundgunnsteins.bsky.social #podcast
Happy New Year!
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/caro...
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/dr-n...
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/hrun...
@hrundgunnsteins.bsky.social #podcast
December 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
To start the new year revisit 3 of the most listened to podcasts exploring the nature of our thoughts & their ripple effects.
Happy New Year!
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/caro...
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/dr-n...
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/hrun...
@hrundgunnsteins.bsky.social #podcast
Happy New Year!
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/caro...
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/dr-n...
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/hrun...
@hrundgunnsteins.bsky.social #podcast
#FridayReads
Ever since reading Thinking in Bets, I cannot help but constantly reframe options & scenarios into probabilities - especially with my 4yr-old gdaughter.
Life is more like poker than chess. Thanks Annie!
@annieduke.com #bets #uncertainty #probability #bets #luk #chance #DecisionMaking
Ever since reading Thinking in Bets, I cannot help but constantly reframe options & scenarios into probabilities - especially with my 4yr-old gdaughter.
Life is more like poker than chess. Thanks Annie!
@annieduke.com #bets #uncertainty #probability #bets #luk #chance #DecisionMaking
December 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
#FridayReads
Ever since reading Thinking in Bets, I cannot help but constantly reframe options & scenarios into probabilities - especially with my 4yr-old gdaughter.
Life is more like poker than chess. Thanks Annie!
@annieduke.com #bets #uncertainty #probability #bets #luk #chance #DecisionMaking
Ever since reading Thinking in Bets, I cannot help but constantly reframe options & scenarios into probabilities - especially with my 4yr-old gdaughter.
Life is more like poker than chess. Thanks Annie!
@annieduke.com #bets #uncertainty #probability #bets #luk #chance #DecisionMaking
Are there any other married women who are irked by filling out their tax returns where their husband is taxpayer and we're spouse?
I requested Taxpayer #1 & #2 to IRS, Congress people & tax rights/fairness org
@repbonamici.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov @4taxfairness.bsky.social
I requested Taxpayer #1 & #2 to IRS, Congress people & tax rights/fairness org
@repbonamici.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov @4taxfairness.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Are there any other married women who are irked by filling out their tax returns where their husband is taxpayer and we're spouse?
I requested Taxpayer #1 & #2 to IRS, Congress people & tax rights/fairness org
@repbonamici.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov @4taxfairness.bsky.social
I requested Taxpayer #1 & #2 to IRS, Congress people & tax rights/fairness org
@repbonamici.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov @merkley.senate.gov @4taxfairness.bsky.social
Who was born on your birthday?
Happy birthday Emily Dickinson & Ada Lovelace. For my poetry and math/computer loving selves.
#poetry #computers #EmilyDickinson #AdaLovelace
Happy birthday Emily Dickinson & Ada Lovelace. For my poetry and math/computer loving selves.
#poetry #computers #EmilyDickinson #AdaLovelace
December 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Who was born on your birthday?
Happy birthday Emily Dickinson & Ada Lovelace. For my poetry and math/computer loving selves.
#poetry #computers #EmilyDickinson #AdaLovelace
Happy birthday Emily Dickinson & Ada Lovelace. For my poetry and math/computer loving selves.
#poetry #computers #EmilyDickinson #AdaLovelace
What does gratitude look like?
"I thought I was absolutely alone, but then I realized I wasn't ... I was surrounded by a lot of lives.”
🎙️https://www.bethbonness.com/podcast/hiroko-yoda-author-of-8-milion-ways-to-happiness-what-does-gratitude-look-like
@hirokoyoda.bsky.social #happiness #gratitude
"I thought I was absolutely alone, but then I realized I wasn't ... I was surrounded by a lot of lives.”
🎙️https://www.bethbonness.com/podcast/hiroko-yoda-author-of-8-milion-ways-to-happiness-what-does-gratitude-look-like
@hirokoyoda.bsky.social #happiness #gratitude
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
What does gratitude look like?
"I thought I was absolutely alone, but then I realized I wasn't ... I was surrounded by a lot of lives.”
🎙️https://www.bethbonness.com/podcast/hiroko-yoda-author-of-8-milion-ways-to-happiness-what-does-gratitude-look-like
@hirokoyoda.bsky.social #happiness #gratitude
"I thought I was absolutely alone, but then I realized I wasn't ... I was surrounded by a lot of lives.”
🎙️https://www.bethbonness.com/podcast/hiroko-yoda-author-of-8-milion-ways-to-happiness-what-does-gratitude-look-like
@hirokoyoda.bsky.social #happiness #gratitude
Shhh it’s a secret — presents for my 3 daughters 🎁📖
Thank you Hrund for your sweet notes to them :)
@hrundgunnsteins.bsky.social #HrundGunnsteinsdóttir #InnSæ #intution #daughters
Thank you Hrund for your sweet notes to them :)
@hrundgunnsteins.bsky.social #HrundGunnsteinsdóttir #InnSæ #intution #daughters
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Shhh it’s a secret — presents for my 3 daughters 🎁📖
Thank you Hrund for your sweet notes to them :)
@hrundgunnsteins.bsky.social #HrundGunnsteinsdóttir #InnSæ #intution #daughters
Thank you Hrund for your sweet notes to them :)
@hrundgunnsteins.bsky.social #HrundGunnsteinsdóttir #InnSæ #intution #daughters
Hello poets &
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out Sherry Rind’s Between States of Matter
"Some of it breaks and reforms like meteorites
but never escapes our gravity, carrying the stories
of our little eruptions
and the long fall through time."
#poetry
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out Sherry Rind’s Between States of Matter
"Some of it breaks and reforms like meteorites
but never escapes our gravity, carrying the stories
of our little eruptions
and the long fall through time."
#poetry
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Hello poets &
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out Sherry Rind’s Between States of Matter
"Some of it breaks and reforms like meteorites
but never escapes our gravity, carrying the stories
of our little eruptions
and the long fall through time."
#poetry
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out Sherry Rind’s Between States of Matter
"Some of it breaks and reforms like meteorites
but never escapes our gravity, carrying the stories
of our little eruptions
and the long fall through time."
#poetry
What does it mean to respect yourself & others?
Listen as social entrepreneur, philanthropist & author Marcy Syms shares insights from her latest book Leading with Respect.
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/marc...
@leadingwithrespect.bsky.social #Respect #thoughtechoes
lnkd.in/gS8Y4CX4
Listen as social entrepreneur, philanthropist & author Marcy Syms shares insights from her latest book Leading with Respect.
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/marc...
@leadingwithrespect.bsky.social #Respect #thoughtechoes
lnkd.in/gS8Y4CX4
November 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
What does it mean to respect yourself & others?
Listen as social entrepreneur, philanthropist & author Marcy Syms shares insights from her latest book Leading with Respect.
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/marc...
@leadingwithrespect.bsky.social #Respect #thoughtechoes
lnkd.in/gS8Y4CX4
Listen as social entrepreneur, philanthropist & author Marcy Syms shares insights from her latest book Leading with Respect.
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/marc...
@leadingwithrespect.bsky.social #Respect #thoughtechoes
lnkd.in/gS8Y4CX4
Driving back from camping in Joshua Tree & Valley of Fire catching up on @bigthink.com articles. Listened to Why Your Best Ideas Come After Your Worst by
@drrachelbarr.bsky.social
Loved the clown & editor imagery.
Totally identify with how my writing comes to fruition.
#creativity #neuroscience
@drrachelbarr.bsky.social
Loved the clown & editor imagery.
Totally identify with how my writing comes to fruition.
#creativity #neuroscience
November 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Driving back from camping in Joshua Tree & Valley of Fire catching up on @bigthink.com articles. Listened to Why Your Best Ideas Come After Your Worst by
@drrachelbarr.bsky.social
Loved the clown & editor imagery.
Totally identify with how my writing comes to fruition.
#creativity #neuroscience
@drrachelbarr.bsky.social
Loved the clown & editor imagery.
Totally identify with how my writing comes to fruition.
#creativity #neuroscience
Happy World Vegan Day!
Whatever food you enjoy — try some vegan today :)
Photos from graduation of
#Rouxbe #ForksOverKnives #vegan
Whatever food you enjoy — try some vegan today :)
Photos from graduation of
#Rouxbe #ForksOverKnives #vegan
November 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Happy World Vegan Day!
Whatever food you enjoy — try some vegan today :)
Photos from graduation of
#Rouxbe #ForksOverKnives #vegan
Whatever food you enjoy — try some vegan today :)
Photos from graduation of
#Rouxbe #ForksOverKnives #vegan
Privileged to read early copy of #SilentY by #KatherineBenfante.
Swept away in a thought experiment that seems so absurd, yet reveals elements that brush (sometimes too closely) with undercurrents in today’s world.
For lovers of Handmaid’s Tale, felt very Gilead.
@kbenfante.bsky.social
Swept away in a thought experiment that seems so absurd, yet reveals elements that brush (sometimes too closely) with undercurrents in today’s world.
For lovers of Handmaid’s Tale, felt very Gilead.
@kbenfante.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Privileged to read early copy of #SilentY by #KatherineBenfante.
Swept away in a thought experiment that seems so absurd, yet reveals elements that brush (sometimes too closely) with undercurrents in today’s world.
For lovers of Handmaid’s Tale, felt very Gilead.
@kbenfante.bsky.social
Swept away in a thought experiment that seems so absurd, yet reveals elements that brush (sometimes too closely) with undercurrents in today’s world.
For lovers of Handmaid’s Tale, felt very Gilead.
@kbenfante.bsky.social
"This thought echoes idea. It's really interesting. There is research to show that the beliefs you arrive at a situation with are going to influence not just your own behavior, but how other people are going to react to you.” — Josh Davis, PhD
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/josh...
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/josh...
October 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
"This thought echoes idea. It's really interesting. There is research to show that the beliefs you arrive at a situation with are going to influence not just your own behavior, but how other people are going to react to you.” — Josh Davis, PhD
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/josh...
www.bethbonness.com/podcast/josh...
Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out Melanie Green’s A Long, Wide Stretch of Calm
At the Edge of a Lake
“At the shore / of silence— / what becomes / and unbecomes”
The Luster of Silence
“in afternoon’s / echo of lights.”
#poetey
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out Melanie Green’s A Long, Wide Stretch of Calm
At the Edge of a Lake
“At the shore / of silence— / what becomes / and unbecomes”
The Luster of Silence
“in afternoon’s / echo of lights.”
#poetey
September 29, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out Melanie Green’s A Long, Wide Stretch of Calm
At the Edge of a Lake
“At the shore / of silence— / what becomes / and unbecomes”
The Luster of Silence
“in afternoon’s / echo of lights.”
#poetey
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out Melanie Green’s A Long, Wide Stretch of Calm
At the Edge of a Lake
“At the shore / of silence— / what becomes / and unbecomes”
The Luster of Silence
“in afternoon’s / echo of lights.”
#poetey
Listen as Elina Teboul invites us to redefine the traditional notions of leadership.
🎙https://www.bethbonness.com/podcast/elina-teboul-author-feminine-intelligence
#thoughtechoes #feminineintelligence #leadership #consciousleadership #ElinaTeboul
🎙https://www.bethbonness.com/podcast/elina-teboul-author-feminine-intelligence
#thoughtechoes #feminineintelligence #leadership #consciousleadership #ElinaTeboul
September 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Listen as Elina Teboul invites us to redefine the traditional notions of leadership.
🎙https://www.bethbonness.com/podcast/elina-teboul-author-feminine-intelligence
#thoughtechoes #feminineintelligence #leadership #consciousleadership #ElinaTeboul
🎙https://www.bethbonness.com/podcast/elina-teboul-author-feminine-intelligence
#thoughtechoes #feminineintelligence #leadership #consciousleadership #ElinaTeboul
Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out @aveningo-sanders.bsky.social for Pockets & Our Timeless Compulsion
“…I wrote a poem. I’d like to share it with you, if I may.”
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out @aveningo-sanders.bsky.social for Pockets & Our Timeless Compulsion
“…I wrote a poem. I’d like to share it with you, if I may.”
September 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out @aveningo-sanders.bsky.social for Pockets & Our Timeless Compulsion
“…I wrote a poem. I’d like to share it with you, if I may.”
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out @aveningo-sanders.bsky.social for Pockets & Our Timeless Compulsion
“…I wrote a poem. I’d like to share it with you, if I may.”
Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out Marcia Loughran ‘s My Mother Never Died Before
Inheritance
“…After she died / I erased her voicemails — / I have her voice / inside my head...”
#PowerOfPoetry
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out Marcia Loughran ‘s My Mother Never Died Before
Inheritance
“…After she died / I erased her voicemails — / I have her voice / inside my head...”
#PowerOfPoetry
August 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out Marcia Loughran ‘s My Mother Never Died Before
Inheritance
“…After she died / I erased her voicemails — / I have her voice / inside my head...”
#PowerOfPoetry
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out Marcia Loughran ‘s My Mother Never Died Before
Inheritance
“…After she died / I erased her voicemails — / I have her voice / inside my head...”
#PowerOfPoetry
What are you paying attention to?
"People who multitask a lot have trouble discerning what's important in their environment. There are huge impacts on our lives from living this constant diet of distraction." — Maggie Jackson
🎙️YouTube: buff.ly/b79EAB7
#Distracted #Attention
"People who multitask a lot have trouble discerning what's important in their environment. There are huge impacts on our lives from living this constant diet of distraction." — Maggie Jackson
🎙️YouTube: buff.ly/b79EAB7
#Distracted #Attention
August 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
What are you paying attention to?
"People who multitask a lot have trouble discerning what's important in their environment. There are huge impacts on our lives from living this constant diet of distraction." — Maggie Jackson
🎙️YouTube: buff.ly/b79EAB7
#Distracted #Attention
"People who multitask a lot have trouble discerning what's important in their environment. There are huge impacts on our lives from living this constant diet of distraction." — Maggie Jackson
🎙️YouTube: buff.ly/b79EAB7
#Distracted #Attention
What are you paying attention to?
"Attention is absolutely, extraordinarily important for how we operate in the world, and it's really useful to know that there are three different kinds.” — Maggie Jackson
🎙️YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IjL...
#Distracted #Attention
"Attention is absolutely, extraordinarily important for how we operate in the world, and it's really useful to know that there are three different kinds.” — Maggie Jackson
🎙️YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IjL...
#Distracted #Attention
August 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
What are you paying attention to?
"Attention is absolutely, extraordinarily important for how we operate in the world, and it's really useful to know that there are three different kinds.” — Maggie Jackson
🎙️YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IjL...
#Distracted #Attention
"Attention is absolutely, extraordinarily important for how we operate in the world, and it's really useful to know that there are three different kinds.” — Maggie Jackson
🎙️YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IjL...
#Distracted #Attention
Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out #PasqualeTrozzolo & #ThePoetryBox @aveningo-sanders.bsky.social for "Before the Distance”
About Why
“Why should why matter so much/When is so much better.”
“Like when we kiss/not why we might”
#PowerOfPoetry
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out #PasqualeTrozzolo & #ThePoetryBox @aveningo-sanders.bsky.social for "Before the Distance”
About Why
“Why should why matter so much/When is so much better.”
“Like when we kiss/not why we might”
#PowerOfPoetry
August 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out #PasqualeTrozzolo & #ThePoetryBox @aveningo-sanders.bsky.social for "Before the Distance”
About Why
“Why should why matter so much/When is so much better.”
“Like when we kiss/not why we might”
#PowerOfPoetry
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out #PasqualeTrozzolo & #ThePoetryBox @aveningo-sanders.bsky.social for "Before the Distance”
About Why
“Why should why matter so much/When is so much better.”
“Like when we kiss/not why we might”
#PowerOfPoetry
Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk changed
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out to @aveningo-sanders.bsky.social for "Your Rescue" in OR Poetry Assoc #Verseweavers
"... stepping across / that threshold, you found yourself and learned / the language of letting go."
#PowerOfPoetry
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out to @aveningo-sanders.bsky.social for "Your Rescue" in OR Poetry Assoc #Verseweavers
"... stepping across / that threshold, you found yourself and learned / the language of letting go."
#PowerOfPoetry
July 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk changed
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out to @aveningo-sanders.bsky.social for "Your Rescue" in OR Poetry Assoc #Verseweavers
"... stepping across / that threshold, you found yourself and learned / the language of letting go."
#PowerOfPoetry
- for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out to @aveningo-sanders.bsky.social for "Your Rescue" in OR Poetry Assoc #Verseweavers
"... stepping across / that threshold, you found yourself and learned / the language of letting go."
#PowerOfPoetry
Hello poets & @brokenspinearts.bsky.social - for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out to #RudyFrancisco - ordering own copy
My Honest Poem
"... Yesterday I tripped/ over my self-esteem, landed on my pride/and it shattered like an iPhone/with a broken face."
#poems #poetry #ButtonPoetry
My Honest Poem
"... Yesterday I tripped/ over my self-esteem, landed on my pride/and it shattered like an iPhone/with a broken face."
#poems #poetry #ButtonPoetry
June 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Hello poets & @brokenspinearts.bsky.social - for this week's #LiftToTheSky I'd like to call out to #RudyFrancisco - ordering own copy
My Honest Poem
"... Yesterday I tripped/ over my self-esteem, landed on my pride/and it shattered like an iPhone/with a broken face."
#poems #poetry #ButtonPoetry
My Honest Poem
"... Yesterday I tripped/ over my self-esteem, landed on my pride/and it shattered like an iPhone/with a broken face."
#poems #poetry #ButtonPoetry
Heartbreaking. Like a blow by blow weather report on racism where there’s moisture raining down all the time — in different degrees of wetness.
buff.ly/7I7e0JN...
#ClaudiaRankine #Juneteeneth
buff.ly/7I7e0JN...
#ClaudiaRankine #Juneteeneth
June 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Heartbreaking. Like a blow by blow weather report on racism where there’s moisture raining down all the time — in different degrees of wetness.
buff.ly/7I7e0JN...
#ClaudiaRankine #Juneteeneth
buff.ly/7I7e0JN...
#ClaudiaRankine #Juneteeneth
"Seeing other people experiment in different areas of their lives can also give you inspiration in terms of areas of your life you would have not necessarily considered changing or experience." Anne-Laure Le Cunff
buff.ly/OGjLhfh
@neuranne.bsky.social #TinyExperiments #PACTS #thoughtechoespodcast
buff.ly/OGjLhfh
@neuranne.bsky.social #TinyExperiments #PACTS #thoughtechoespodcast
June 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"Seeing other people experiment in different areas of their lives can also give you inspiration in terms of areas of your life you would have not necessarily considered changing or experience." Anne-Laure Le Cunff
buff.ly/OGjLhfh
@neuranne.bsky.social #TinyExperiments #PACTS #thoughtechoespodcast
buff.ly/OGjLhfh
@neuranne.bsky.social #TinyExperiments #PACTS #thoughtechoespodcast
#FridayReads InnSæ by Hrund Gunnsteisdóttir
So much wisdom in this gem of a book. Different intuition books reveal different approaches, but InnSæi presents a layered approach new to me. I highly recommend giving it a try!
buff.ly/bkPs0A3
@hrundgunnsteins.bsky.social #intuition
So much wisdom in this gem of a book. Different intuition books reveal different approaches, but InnSæi presents a layered approach new to me. I highly recommend giving it a try!
buff.ly/bkPs0A3
@hrundgunnsteins.bsky.social #intuition
May 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
#FridayReads InnSæ by Hrund Gunnsteisdóttir
So much wisdom in this gem of a book. Different intuition books reveal different approaches, but InnSæi presents a layered approach new to me. I highly recommend giving it a try!
buff.ly/bkPs0A3
@hrundgunnsteins.bsky.social #intuition
So much wisdom in this gem of a book. Different intuition books reveal different approaches, but InnSæi presents a layered approach new to me. I highly recommend giving it a try!
buff.ly/bkPs0A3
@hrundgunnsteins.bsky.social #intuition