Chris 🇨🇦

Flashbacks mean there's part of us that sincerely believes now is then, we're as vulnerable as we were then, & something NEEDS to be done about it.

Realistically managing flashbacks starts w/ validating those feelings & fears, & supporting & soothing that activated part of us.

You are more trustworthy than your trauma conditioning wants you to believe. You are more reliable than your trauma conditioning wants you to believe. You are more intelligent than your trauma conditioning wants you to believe.

No matter what it's whispering to you right now.

170 to 168, j’me excuse

Canada’s Liberal government survives the confidence vote (177 - 168). 👍

Green Party leader Elizabeth May 😁 voted, “Yea” 🥰🇨🇦

My photo collage shows four pottery vessels, all a creamy yellow in colour, with black painted decoration depicting underwater sea-life featuring lively stylised octopuses with writhing tentacles (arms), All on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. Top L - Minoan pithoid storage jar decorated in the “Marine Style” with wide-eyes octopus, argonauts, rocks, and coral. Rounded top tapering down to a narrower base. Short cyclindrical neck flaring out at the mouth with black wavy decoration reminiscent of waves. Loop handles attached to the shoulders of the body. Height 55 cm. From Zakros. 1500-1450 BC Top R - Minoan flask with a rounded body, short cyclindrical neck which flares at the rim, and two small curved handles attached between the top of the spout and the shoulders of the body. Decorated in “Marine Style” which depicts an almost cartoon-like octopus with wide eyes and sucker-lined tentacles which writhe around the vase. Other decorative sea-motifs include sea urchins, seaweed and rocks. Height 27cm. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC Bottom L - alabastron, broad at the base, swelling outwards into a fuller belly before narrowing near the top with a very short cyclindrical neck and a wider flat rimmed mouth. Decorated in “Marine Style” with a wide-eyed octopus among rocks. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1370 BC Bottom R - krater with rounded body narrowing at the bottom towards the foot. Wide flaring mouth and rim with black painted wavy decoration, and two sturdy handles attached on each side between the top of the mouth and shoulders of the vessel. Decorated with a central very stylised wide-eyed octopus whose tentacles loop up and down around the body of the pot, 1370-1300 BC

Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️

Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

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Thank you

Gorgeous George!!

Very still, cool and a bit of fog this morning

THE HOWL COLLECTION - Day 3 Photograph 3

3) A biologist tracks a wolf pack, documenting their sophisticated social structure. Her data points to habitat loss as the real threat to their survival & caribou’s, but public & political blame still falls on wolves.

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Two Grey Wolves Interacting in Forest by Shonna Hawkins shonna-hawkins.pixels.com/featured/two...

Two grey wolves are seen in a natural forest setting in Haliburton. One wolf is standing over the other, dominating the wolf, which is lying..

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Katimavik ‘82: Rockland Ontario, St. Anthony Newfoundland and Rosthern Saskatchewan.

haptic feedback
your hand finds my heart beat
a single click yes

#haiku

Remember today that your bullies & abusers would love nothing more than for you to keep blaming & shaming yourself for your symptoms & struggles.

Relating to yourself w/ compassion & realism would really piss them off & make them nervous.

That sounds like a plan to me.

I’ve learned to walk away instead of being set up again

True and immediately brought back reading White Fang in 6th grade! Jack London novel very much affirming ones independence.

Art for sale in #FineArtAmerica!
Young Tigers Calm Gaze

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“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly”

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Morning! Thanks

Friedrich Willem Nietzsche 🌹
Born October 14, 1844 in Prussia
Died August 25, 1900 in Weimar

"I have found more danger among men than among animals."
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-1885)

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The World's Most Popular Pain Relief Drug May Induce Risky Behavior The most commonly taken analgesic worldwide – and one of the most consumed drugs in the US – could be doing a lot more than just pain relief.

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Loren Eisley’s name was in the crossword puzzle this morning. I knew him from some mention in one of Kerouac’s books but really knew nothing about Loren Eiseley. This morning I’ve been reading about him and his writing and I feel like I have just discovered Loren Eiseley!!

Survivors of trauma, especially sexual trauma, often encounter negative social reactions. Rape myths and victim blaming-- both subtle & overt-- deepen & complicate trauma responses survivors experience from the trauma itself.

It's how trauma becomes complex trauma.

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

The coming economic AI crash will be the mother load of all crashes. Trillions lost buying microchips to create search engines that hallucinate and need to be replaced every 5 years! What a howler, investors got punked with a fantasy product.

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Its radical acceptance. Lean in to them and show acceptance and compassion they’d never had.

Every time we engage our pain or fear w/ compassion patience, acceptance, & realism, it makes a difference. It makes a dent in the neural pathways that drive our trauma responses. Our vulnerability to future trauma responses is diminished every time we have our own back.

Watch the Priest Abuser Documentary: Marcial Maciel: The Wolf of God UNLV Boyd School of Law professor Leslie C. Griffin reviews the documentary Marcial Maciel: The Wolf of God, which investigates the life of Marcial Maciel, a powerful Catholic priest and founder of th...

The film confirms the church has long protected its priest-abusers and ignored its victims and survivors.

#CCSA Clerical Child Sexual Abuse #AbuseByClergy #Coverup

#MarcialMacielTheWolfOfGod

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Yes, processing the past is important in trauma recovery-- but so is developing our future. Not enough recovery resources discuss this.

We're not metabolizing the past for its own sake. We're doing it because we have sh*t to do from here on out that has zero to do w/ the past.

Chronic illness folks:

I *know* this is really individual, but does anyone have any recommendations for Android apps that are useful for symptom tracking? I have tried so many over the years and I just can't find one that works.

Contemplating going back to a bujo for this but would rather not.

Today just give yourself a second or two or three before choosing to react. If it’s starting to boil over you can take it off the heat.