Came here to look for her 🔥

It’s depressing to read their posts. Completely lost to the ☠️ cult

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All that is good and holy

Traumatic occurrences do not get stored like regular events in the brain, and for good reason. A survival instinct keeps the memory running in loop to look for possible continued danger. This is why rumination persists. When this is happening your PF cortex (executive function, logical decision making, learned “wisdom” if you will) goes off-line. For these two reasons, concentration is difficult and thinking (finding solutions) and/ or attempting to not to think (mediation) are almost impossible.

If you can find a therapist that specialize in trauma, and/or that practices EMDR or brain-spotting, they can help you break that loop. By re-orient/storing the traumatic event to longer-term memory, you can then start to heal on a deeper level.

The good thing about EMDR is that it can be used as a short-term strategy to reduce the reactive / rumination cycle. Long-term, it also helps reduce triggering events, disruptive thoughts, flashbacks, etc., which can be scary. The somatization of trauma is real, by working to heal it you also avoid having it show up as another illness in your body.

A professional can help you return to being more fully present, so that you can then figure out how to get back to fully living again. May you find the help that you are seeking and may the right people guide you on your path to feeling safe again.

Oh and yes, When Things Fall Apart is were I started w Pema 🙂

-60 karma. All I need to know ✌🏼

Your fair is sending me 😆

It was here. Now in it’s in a sad little trailer here. No shade, just facts.

If you have eyes and a conscience you know that ICE are henchmen for the rise of fascism and use of terror by this administration.

You get rid of due process and habeas corpus for one, you erode the process for all.

No one is saying criminals are good people. Don’t be obtuse.

Forever FUCK ICE.

“…by the way…”🗣️

Great way to reset. May the fall winds aid in healing your hurt. 🍂

On a personal note, there is no bad way to meditate. You came to it and did it. And when you are ready you’ll come back…and maybe it becomes easier. That’s why it’s called a practice.

Sitting meditation right after experiencing truma is not often recommended. But meditation can also be taking a walk in nature, looking at the moon and stars, making a meal for yourself…so long as there is some focus, mindfulness and intention.

Final note, I recommend Pema Chödrön’s writing to many but especially those that are experiencing distress & heart-ache. Be well, fellow human 🤍

Long-limbed cutie. So happy he made it!

This is the reason. The marketplace is purposely being made more and more unaffordable. The blame lies in trumps BB bill.

Collecting 90k a year from his pension! JFC, how is he still being paid. This money should be going toward the settlements. Makes my blood boil 🤬

I fainted with the first insertion. No pain meds just BS “little pinch” lies. I was actually advised to take a couple NSAIDS an hour before the procedure 🤬 Then there was the getting it out part…

💯 I had a similar trajectory. Lots of public transport in my younger years, roaming lower-income neighborhoods, and braving snow and freezing cold weather, and of course male harassment. Having my own car, later in life, not only felt like freedom but also served as a barrier from a variety of dangers.

Marshall Fields, gone but not forgotten ❤️

Chubtund

Same. Growing you in a big city and having lots of autonomy since I was a kid I’ve learned or have a kind of right-seized fear of situations. I trust that (even subconsciously) I’m always aware or my surroundings, and maybe most importantly to trust my gut.

As a BIPOC woman smaller towns can feel particularly creeps and sometimes flat out dangerous. I’m not a stranger danger person but with what’s going on in the US, I have less trust in folks. Sad but true. I’m also so accustomed to having noise and people around me that when I’m in quieter, less populated areas, it actually feels a bit unnerving 😬

They know this. Being obtuse to try to sway the narrative is always the play. But…WE DO NOT PLAY.