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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 16h

LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 20h

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

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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 22d

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

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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 24d

"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

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

Healing cPTSD When the Trauma wasn't Physical

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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 25d

"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
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#CPTSD #complextrauma #DBT #mentalhealth #selfcare

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

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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 28d

“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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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 29d

“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

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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 29d

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

LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · Sep 21

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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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · Sep 21

This. Powers-that-be that hold our gifts in scorn do not negate the value of those gifts. #YouAreIrreplaceable #AllBeingsHaveAPurpose

Stephen Trumbull @smtrumbull.bsky.social · Sep 21

Thought for the Day…

LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · Sep 19

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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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · Sep 18

"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💗

LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · Sep 17

Thank you, Toni!

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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · Sep 17

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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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...

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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · Sep 17

"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

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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · Sep 16

"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

LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · Sep 15

"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

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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · Sep 13

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

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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · Sep 13

" #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

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

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

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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · Sep 12

“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

LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · Sep 12

“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.”

LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · Sep 10

I know...so powerful. The photographer is X1klima on Flickr; they comment: "Grief, Sculpture Girl Chemistry , Friedhof Engesohde, Hannover, Germany" www.flickr.com/photos/x1kli...

grieving woman

Grief, Sculpture Girl Chemistry , Friedhof Engesohde, Hannover, Germany, Leica x1 12/25/2014 17:57:04

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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · Sep 10

The force of anti-life is the same. The only difference is how we respond: whether we are blinded & deceived, paralyzed & surrender, enraged & lash out — or whether we recognize the destroyer’s energy & resist, reaching for life & light. #SuicidePreventionAwareness #Stay linkly.link/2EtQd

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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · Sep 10

"And there it is: the storm of #grief that you thought you cd never access or release, that resisted all your stories b/c it arises beyond all stories. The storm you feared b/c if you once allowed it, you feared it wd never end.
It won’t last forever; it will end." #GriefStorm linkly.link/2EtPW

LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · Sep 9

In #dialecticalbehaviortherapy ( #DBT), the balance is btw #change & #acceptance.... to change the behaviors in your life that are creating more suffering for yourself & others while...accepting yourself the way you are. #CPTSD
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Wkbk/MatthewMcKay linkly.link/2EqMa

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