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4 Republicans defy Speaker Johnson to force House vote on extending ACA subsidies Four centrist Republicans have broken with their party's leadership over health care. They've signed onto a Democratic-led petition that will force a House vote on extending for three years an enhance...

There may yet be hope...
#pray #intend #visualize #affirm #domagic #lightacandle
#writeyourlegislators #PhoneBank
#savehealthcaresubsidies #savelives
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DAY 9 of #SpiritInAction – SEAL THE ACTION
CIVIC: Make your final calls or visits to your legislators. Post your final appeals online.
SPIRITUAL: Offer your day as prayer & promise: “Healthcare is sacred. We will not let it be destroyed.”
#SaveTheACA. #ProtectMedicaid.

DAY 8 of #SpiritInAction – SEND A UNIFIED VOICE
CIVIC: Gather with others & focus in a moment of silence. Then phone-bank legislators. Let them feel the pressure of conscience.
SPIRITUAL: Light candles, ring bells, or sit in silence together for nine minutes.
#SaveTheACA #MedicaidMatters.

Day 7 of #SpiritInAction — RAISE THE DEADLINE
🗓️ “Nov 1. #SaveTheACA. #ProtectMedicaid.”
CIVIC: Repeat it everywhere: your conversations, online feeds, tags.
SPIRITUAL: Build a small altar around calendar day 11/1 — light a candle & focus prayer, meditation, or intention there. Lives depend on it.

DAY 6 of #SpiritInAction – LIFT UP HEALERS
CIVIC: Thank doctors, nurses, & caregivers; bring cards & gifts for staff/admin at local hospitals/nursing homes. Post to social media & tag your legislators.
SPIRITUAL: Hold vigil for HC facilities at risk of closure. #SaveTheACA #MedicaidMatters.

Day 5 of #SpiritInAction: Write & Witness ✍️
CIVIC: Use your voice — write, post, speak out: “We are six days from losing healthcare for millions.”
SPIRITUAL: Pray, do ritual, visualize, or intend your words move hearts to act.
#SpiritInAction #SaveTheACA #MedicaidMatters

Day 4 of #SpiritInAction: Stronger Together.
CIVIC: Ask your group, school, or congregation to speak up for healthcare.
SPIRITUAL: Hold a candlelight vigil, online or onsite.
1 action per day, multiplied by thousands.
Download all 9 days: bit.ly/47GzDar
#SaveTheACA #MedicaidMatters #PeopleOfGoodWill

#SpiritInActionForHealthcare
Day 3: SHOW UP LOCALLY 🕯️
CIVIC: Visit legislators’ offices w/ letters, petitions, photos of loved ones who depend on care. Let media know what you're doing & why.
SPIRITUAL: Hold vigil: act in love & urgency.
#SaveTheACA #MedicaidMatters #PeopleOfGoodWill
bit.ly/47GzDar

#WhyDoesHealthcareMatterToMe? Family = microcosm of nat’l macrocosm: #cardiaccare, #eldercare, #genderaffirming & #chroniccare. Relatives will die w/o #accessiblehealthcare. #SaveACA #MedicaidMatters @repkweisimfume.bsky.social @alsobrooks.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @govwesmoore.bsky.social

#SpiritInActionForHealthcare
Day 2: Flood the Feed 💬
Civic: Post why accessible healthcare matters to you. Tag your reps + local media.
Spiritual: Light a candle and send energy for protection for those in danger if healthcare coverage is cut off.
#SaveTheACA #MedicaidMatters #PeopleOfGoodWill

9 Days to Save Healthcare
Day 1 – Sound the Alarm 📞
Call your senators & reps:
“No cuts to ACA or Medicaid. No one should lose care because Congress failed.”
Pause — pray, visualize, or focus your intent.
Care is sacred.
Full 9 days: bit.ly/3Jk1W65
#SpiritInAction #SaveTheACA #MedicaidMatters

How shall we view #suicide?
1) #Endstigma [ #shamekills]
2) Adopt a problem solving p.o.v. (suicide is a desperate attempt to solve deep pain).
3) Keep an open mind (it's not that there are no solutions, but [they] aren't apparent).
#CBT #ChoosingToLive #ReachOut
~ThomasEllis linkly.link/2Fj0R

No Sticks or Stones No Broken Bones: Healing cPTSD When the Trauma wasn't Physical Healing cPTSD When the Trauma wasn't Physical

"Many [victims of #intangibletrauma] suffer fr #despair so profound they feel 'they might as well be dead.' Many battle... #anxiety, #depression, even #rage. Feelings of #dread, #panic & #exhaustion ...make everyday livng feel like tap-dancng in a minefield." ~ Ricia Fleming #CPTSD linkly.link/2FfBE

Regulate me now: A go-to guide to self-soothe your Nervous System Dysregulation, calm chronic stress, anxiety, and CPTSD / complex trauma for immediate relief and ease A go-to guide to self-soothe your Nervous System Dysregulation, calm chronic stress, anxiety, and CPTSD / complex trauma for immediate relief and ease

"Get curious about yourself & your experiences w/ [emotional] #dysregulation. #Neuroscience widely acknowledges that your incredible brain can change through simple #mindfulnesspractices." -- Danie Harris/Regulate Me Now
bookshop.org/a/109848/979...
#CPTSD #complextrauma #DBT #mentalhealth #selfcare

“If you want to get out of hell, you have to get #thruthefire to the other side. You’ve got to find courage to go thru your #anger, open up to your therapist, #keepgoing thru the #pain. It isn’t ovrnight that you are going to feel better. But you will.”
#HealingJourney #DontGiveUp
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“We’re in such a #hurry most of the time we never get much chance to #talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondring years later where the time went & sorry it’s gone. ” ― R.M.Pirsig
/Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance linkly.link/2FFeD

Transformational morning reading from Rob Brezsny's book of magic, #Pronoia Is the Antidote for #Paranoia. Words to give #hope in these days. #joyisachoice #live linkly.link/2FBvi

Like everyone else I've been moving thru stages of #anxiety, horror, & #grief, seeing the destruction of #democracy, a #socialsafetynet, or #environmentalprotection. But lately something has helped me to ground myself, take a deep breath, & put myself back together. #DivineLove
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This. Powers-that-be that hold our gifts in scorn do not negate the value of those gifts. #YouAreIrreplaceable #AllBeingsHaveAPurpose

I asked #DeenaMetzger, “Being sensitive to all you perceive, how do you not despair?”
She said: “B/c...we are doing what we are called to do & that has to be sufficient. And because — I don’t want God to despair too.”
#WeAffectTheWhole
#DivineOneness #DivinityoftheSpeck
#panentheism
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"When you [grow up loved], you care for yrself in a way the unloved do not. Their addictions & destructive behaviors are searches for the feeling of being loved, a feeling they never had." -B.Siegel, fwd, "How I Stayed Alive When My Brain was Trying to Kill Me"/Susan Blauner linkly.link/2F9zF
#Self💗

Thank you, Toni!

The Scar and the Semicolon - LIVEdammit I remember when I first heard about Project Semicolon—the brave passion project of a woman who knew the call of the abyss. From the moment I learned her story, I resonated—both as a grammarian and a f...

In this #SuicidePreventionAwareness Month, sharing my own story of #choosinglife, taking a step beyond the scars of #CPTSD with the imagery of #ProjectSemicolon.
#StayHere #HealingIsPossible #PostTraumaticGrowth #EndStigma
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"If you're a #survivor of #suicide loss... or if you want to walk alongside someone who has lost a loved one to suicide...As someone who has walked this dark night of the soul before you, this is what I want you to know: Don't give up. Don't *ever* give up." - Rita Schulte linkly.link/2F83O
#HoldOn

"If we fail to let #pain be pain – and our entire #patriarchal culture refuses to let this happen – then pain will haunt us in nightmarish ways. We will become pain’s #victims instead of the #healers we might become." Matthew Fox / Original Blessing linkly.link/2F6F1
#PostTraumaticGrowth #StayHere

"Step out of your history & into the path of your #future.... the #pain was necessary...to know the #truth. But we don't have to keep the pain alive...to keep the truth alive." ~ Bruce D. Perry / What Happened to You? Conversations on #Trauma, #Resilience, & #Healing linkly.link/2F3Zf
#TruthHeals

Now more than ever. Speak up for transfolk. Be an ally, supporter, advocate, friend.
Parents' resources: bit.ly/4mfLi58
Family & friends: bit.ly/3VOeqFK
Youth resources: bit.ly/4ny1UWN and bit.ly/3ImNXfg
@trevorproject.bsky.social #suicide prevention: bit.ly/47Idytx

Blackbird: A Mother's Reflections on Grief, Loss, and Life After Suicide A Mother's Reflections on Grief, Loss, and Life After Suicide

" #Suicide & its copilot, #depression, are mysterious...mystery is part of their power. Talking abt #mentalillness & suicide reduces their power. So I've raised my head as high as I am able, to speak as unflinchingly as I can abt losing my son..." #STAY
Blackbird / BetsyStephenson linkly.link/2F0dx

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” -- E.B. White