Journaling has been the biggest help to me to complete the "debrief" on my own. After I've written down the mechanical details of my day or week, what I'm left with are pure emotions. And that's where the work gets done.

(and count me in as a friend to call in btw 🤍)

My rec is an e-reader, but don't go in expecting to have much spare time. Recovery can be a very active process. I didn't actually get time for things needing sustained focus, plus pain made focus hard. Reading/phone/sudoku etc. worked. Visitors was my fav though - call in some friends if you can!

Remember that boundaries are things you can enforce with or without someone's cooperation. Thinking about it this way is how to both assess and assert our actual agency. If people cross lines, if you have less power to react than you want, being realistic with the power you have can help maximize it

Really‽ With it being so naturally light you'd probably have an easier time than me (⁠^⁠～⁠^⁠;⁠)⁠ゞ

I finally got into a clinic for the sick that's been dogging me for weeks, so that'll go a long way. But I think I've landed on also dying my hair too (⁠ㆁ⁠ω⁠ㆁ⁠)

I do the occasional full throated scream into a pillow. I was surprisingly old before ever having screamed as loud as possible. I think a lot of people have never actually screamed like that before. It kinda shocked me how loud I could go.

It's bad luck my throat is too sore right now.

ahoy hoy

You need to channel Archimedes! Fill a vessel with water to the brim, dip a boob fully, and voila - water will overflow in exact proportion to its volume. Remove boob and measure the difference in water height to find that volume. Then you've got a pretty accurate reading of your size!

Decisions like these are a lot easier once we put them into the context of our own values. Are there things about the experience that align with those values? E.g. family connection, visibility, representation, etc. If honouring those values is worth (or not) the negatives then that's good guidance.

Classic move, honestly XD

Pretty!!! And the synths look cool too 😎

Prey was so good! Also, the recent animated anthology film was really good too.

I've been in app limbo. I don't want to post on the bird app anymore for obvious reasons, but have been too burnt out to build my presence here yet. More coming eventually! Thank you for the comment, it really does motivate me (⁠人⁠ ⁠•͈⁠ᴗ⁠•͈⁠)