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Kristin Parker

@iamkrisparker.bsky.social

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Read this if your life’s too full to breathe. For caregivers, mothers, overthinkers, and artists stuck in survival mode. Time & Energy shows the way out. 👇 https://bit.ly/te_pdf (ebook) https://books.by/kristinparker (paperback)

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Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · 23h

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Kristin Parker @iamkrisparker.bsky.social · 21h

In case nobody had told you yet:

If you have nobody looking after you, look after yourself.

You’re worth it.

This World Mental Health Day and every day.

#mentalhealth #momsky

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Kristin Parker @iamkrisparker.bsky.social · 1d

stands beside people in need,

meets them where they are and

provides individualized help that can move benefit recipients from giving up on themselves to

wanting to help themselves?

Kristin Parker @iamkrisparker.bsky.social · 1d

So what does it take for the decision makers to change the social welfare system

from a shameful one that has people hide from the reality to one that

Kristin Parker @iamkrisparker.bsky.social · 2d

Tears once felt like weakness to me.

Now they’re proof I’m alive.

Strength isn’t the absence of breaking — it’s choosing to keep going even when you break.

Kristin Parker @iamkrisparker.bsky.social · 3d

As of recently, I feel like someone who clutched a sand clock in an attempt to make it slow down but ended up breaking it. And now, instead of steady trickling, the sand runs through my fingers like a waterfall. I can’t reverse it, can’t stop it, can’t slow it down.

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Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · 5d

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 5d

The truth isn’t as scary as denial. Denial makes you fight two battles...suppressing what scares you...and....fueling endless fears in your head at the same time.. Face reality...and you stop wasting energy on illusions. You start planning. And that’s when fear turns into strength.

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Kristin Parker @iamkrisparker.bsky.social · 4d

By the time I had become pregnant with my third kid, my mental health had deteriorated so much that I couldn’t be happy about it.

I feared for my unborn’s wellbeing if I didn’t take care of myself.

I was denied help because I ‘presented myself too well’.

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Ray Bilcliff - Photography @raybilcliff.com · 5d

A lonely sentinel against the sky so vast.
Watches the waves in a moment to last.
The sun will rise orange and rose.
As the ocean breathes and morning grows.

Just before sunrise at St. Marys Lighthouse in the UK.

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Kristin Parker @iamkrisparker.bsky.social · 5d

Sometimes, I’m just too much for myself to hold…

Kristin Parker @iamkrisparker.bsky.social · 5d

Who needs to hear this:

You’re not your case number.

You’re a human out of flesh and blood, thoughts and emotions, and your existence in this world is great enough a reason to support you.

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Lauren Walsh @laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 6d

It can be incredibly hard to see your progress when recovering from depression or burnout. The whole world keeps demanding certain benchmarks of you to the point that it’s easy to feel like a failure despite your hard work. Remember your progress is your own journey. Every win means something.

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Kristin Parker @iamkrisparker.bsky.social · 5d

How lucky you are!

Kristin Parker @iamkrisparker.bsky.social · 6d

And then people without kids wonder why people with kids are always tired, exhausted and don’t show up to whichever kind of meeting or social gathering.

Kristin Parker @iamkrisparker.bsky.social · 6d

Also I wish we wouldn’t have to fight our way through life. At least not all the time.

And that we’re not being mocked when extracting ourselves from the battlefield.

We’re not fleeing the fight.

We’re running towards life.

Kristin Parker @iamkrisparker.bsky.social · 6d

“Rest is preparation for the next battle.” Yeah…tell a family caregiver who’s fighting several fights simultaneously all the time with no training, rest or preparation while literally keeping another human alive and well without medical expertise.

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Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · 7d

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Kristin Parker @iamkrisparker.bsky.social · 6d

Being on social welfare isn’t fill in a form and cash out.

It’s a job on its own.

One that strips you off the time and energy to rebuild your life and has you living in perpetual anxiety.

But try to get mental health support and you’re told you’re not depressed enough to be treated.

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Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · 7d

Haunted house for introverts: people pop out and try to make small talk. Final room is a networking event where everyone asks for your info at once

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 7d

When a president sends troops into American cities to “restore order,” what he’s really doing is testing obedience. Portland and Chicago aren’t war zones…they’re warning shots. Authoritarians don’t announce takeovers. They practice them. One city at a time. However, each practice destroys families.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 8d

You can't be "brave" when there is no threat to you.

NOW...is the opportunity for Americans to demonstrate courage/bravery. Are there risks for the average American...now? Absolutely. But....that's how bravery has always been demonstrated throughout history. It's the only realm where it can be.

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Kristin Parker @iamkrisparker.bsky.social · 7d

As the leaves fall, so do the layers of masquerade that I had put on myself for decades for the sake of pleasing other people.

I’m striving to become bare, naked, my one true self.

Kristin Parker @iamkrisparker.bsky.social · 7d

“Pretty lazy day today, huh?”

“Mhm. I’ve got a fever, aching muscles all over, can barely speak but I cooked, baked, did laundry, took the kids to the playground and do all of my daily content creation work. Yeah, pretty lazy day.”

“Come on, honey!”

This is no exception. This is ubiquitous.

Kristin Parker @iamkrisparker.bsky.social · 7d

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