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Release stored emotions through Mind Body Spirit Release. Led by a trauma informed covid cautious disabled LGBTQIA woman. Experience with Neurodiversity/Chronic Diseases/LGBTQIA.
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The Biology of Trauma: How the Body Holds Fear, Pain, and Overwhelm, and How to Heal It
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Shall we start a #BlueSkyBookClub for this awesome new book that was just released this week and is being considered for the New York Times Bestseller list?
Grab your copy from your favorite spot and let’s start reading!
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Grab your copy from your favorite spot and let’s start reading!
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People are often so proud of those who are resilient. But really we should step back and understand where resilience comes from. It’s born out of trauma and fighting to survive.
Maybe instead we should fix are systems so people don’t have to be resilient 100% of the time.
Maybe instead we should fix are systems so people don’t have to be resilient 100% of the time.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
People are often so proud of those who are resilient. But really we should step back and understand where resilience comes from. It’s born out of trauma and fighting to survive.
Maybe instead we should fix are systems so people don’t have to be resilient 100% of the time.
Maybe instead we should fix are systems so people don’t have to be resilient 100% of the time.
What an election night. Thank you to all those who got out to vote and express that fascism is not our America. Hope does wonders for us.
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
What an election night. Thank you to all those who got out to vote and express that fascism is not our America. Hope does wonders for us.
From Dr Aimie Apigian:
Most people who are the top high functioning people in the world are able to do that because they are able to protect and hide their chronic functional freeze well enough and it actually fuels their drive for achievement, for performance.
Most people who are the top high functioning people in the world are able to do that because they are able to protect and hide their chronic functional freeze well enough and it actually fuels their drive for achievement, for performance.
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
From Dr Aimie Apigian:
Most people who are the top high functioning people in the world are able to do that because they are able to protect and hide their chronic functional freeze well enough and it actually fuels their drive for achievement, for performance.
Most people who are the top high functioning people in the world are able to do that because they are able to protect and hide their chronic functional freeze well enough and it actually fuels their drive for achievement, for performance.
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Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway:
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
November 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway:
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
"I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons."
Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.
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An increase in Bird Flu activity has been a concern of mine for over a month now.
Avian flu strikes turkey farms in Dakotas, large egg facility in California www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
Avian flu strikes turkey farms in Dakotas, large egg facility in California www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
Avian flu strikes turkey farms in Dakotas, large egg facility in California
Elsewhere, 2 large poultry outbreaks were reported in Lagrange County, Indiana.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
An increase in Bird Flu activity has been a concern of mine for over a month now.
Avian flu strikes turkey farms in Dakotas, large egg facility in California www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
Avian flu strikes turkey farms in Dakotas, large egg facility in California www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
We know what to do. Right?
Let’s share our favorite tools for regulating our nervous systems.
- Somatic exercises
- Parts work
- Apollo Neuro
- Mind Body Spirit Release
What would you add?
Let’s share our favorite tools for regulating our nervous systems.
- Somatic exercises
- Parts work
- Apollo Neuro
- Mind Body Spirit Release
What would you add?
One of our country's greatest war criminals just died, the president is arguing with himself about whether or not to let 40 million people starve, and there is an actual courtroom drama about a five dollar footlong.
How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.
How are any of us supposed to maintain emotional regulation.
November 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
We know what to do. Right?
Let’s share our favorite tools for regulating our nervous systems.
- Somatic exercises
- Parts work
- Apollo Neuro
- Mind Body Spirit Release
What would you add?
Let’s share our favorite tools for regulating our nervous systems.
- Somatic exercises
- Parts work
- Apollo Neuro
- Mind Body Spirit Release
What would you add?
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Remember today you are allowed to change your mind, you are allowed to change your priorities, you are allowed to set new standards or boundaries.
Your safety & stability-- your recovery-- going forward are more important than ANY past decision that no longer fits or serves you.
Your safety & stability-- your recovery-- going forward are more important than ANY past decision that no longer fits or serves you.
November 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Remember today you are allowed to change your mind, you are allowed to change your priorities, you are allowed to set new standards or boundaries.
Your safety & stability-- your recovery-- going forward are more important than ANY past decision that no longer fits or serves you.
Your safety & stability-- your recovery-- going forward are more important than ANY past decision that no longer fits or serves you.
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While news of Avian Flu has stopped since March, research found that YES—as some of us have always suspected since Covid DID turn out to be airborne—H5N1 can be transmitted human to human and it’s airborne too. Is it any wonder why R F K muzzled media around H5N1? 😷 Mask up, next pandemic in 5…4…3…
😬 "believed to have been infected through human-to-human spread"...
Meanwhile our homicidally negligent public health and infection control leaders are still lying to the public about the need for proper protections against aerosol transmission, to cover up their last lethal "very big mistake".
Meanwhile our homicidally negligent public health and infection control leaders are still lying to the public about the need for proper protections against aerosol transmission, to cover up their last lethal "very big mistake".
Review: Human H5N1 avian flu cases can be asymptomatic, and the virus likely spreads among people
www.cidrap.umn.edu
October 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
While news of Avian Flu has stopped since March, research found that YES—as some of us have always suspected since Covid DID turn out to be airborne—H5N1 can be transmitted human to human and it’s airborne too. Is it any wonder why R F K muzzled media around H5N1? 😷 Mask up, next pandemic in 5…4…3…
We know as you know that we still have at least 2 covid waves a year and covid is always spreading. The data proves it. Those who die prove it. And those who get long covid prove it.
Stay safe friends.
Stay safe friends.
Dr Oz: “I think we all agree that Covid has passed”.
No we do not agree!
Anyone who thinks Covid has passed has no business in charge of public health.
It’s still here. It’s still killing and disabling.
Get your booster if you can. Wear a mask (ideally an N95) and clean the air!
No we do not agree!
Anyone who thinks Covid has passed has no business in charge of public health.
It’s still here. It’s still killing and disabling.
Get your booster if you can. Wear a mask (ideally an N95) and clean the air!
October 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
We know as you know that we still have at least 2 covid waves a year and covid is always spreading. The data proves it. Those who die prove it. And those who get long covid prove it.
Stay safe friends.
Stay safe friends.
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"A new study in The Journal of Infectious Diseases links higher intercontinental airline passenger flight volumes to both influenza activity and COVID-19 case and death rates"
"Flights from Asia played a larger role in disease spread"
Data covered 78 countries and US states (2019–2024)
"Flights from Asia played a larger role in disease spread"
Data covered 78 countries and US states (2019–2024)
International air travel—especially packed flights—fueled flu, COVID-19 spread during pandemic, researchers say
www.cidrap.umn.edu
October 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"A new study in The Journal of Infectious Diseases links higher intercontinental airline passenger flight volumes to both influenza activity and COVID-19 case and death rates"
"Flights from Asia played a larger role in disease spread"
Data covered 78 countries and US states (2019–2024)
"Flights from Asia played a larger role in disease spread"
Data covered 78 countries and US states (2019–2024)
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I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
October 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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My comments on the actual causes of autism or ASD vs the very weak evidence for Tylenol @mediaite.com @rumpfshaker.bsky.social
www.mediaite.com/opinion/texa...
www.mediaite.com/opinion/texa...
Texas Attorney General Sues Tylenol, Citing Controversial and Debunked Claims It Causes Autism and ADHD
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Tuesday he had filed a lawsuit against Tylenol's manufacturer, citing numerous controversial and debunked claims by Health and Human Services Secretary Robe...
www.mediaite.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
My comments on the actual causes of autism or ASD vs the very weak evidence for Tylenol @mediaite.com @rumpfshaker.bsky.social
www.mediaite.com/opinion/texa...
www.mediaite.com/opinion/texa...
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In 2023/2024 I participated in an MU GI Covid Study by sending in stool samples. They confirmed that covid still lives in my body.
So today I went looking for some info about how long we know covid remains in the body.
A thread …
So today I went looking for some info about how long we know covid remains in the body.
A thread …
October 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
In 2023/2024 I participated in an MU GI Covid Study by sending in stool samples. They confirmed that covid still lives in my body.
So today I went looking for some info about how long we know covid remains in the body.
A thread …
So today I went looking for some info about how long we know covid remains in the body.
A thread …
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I'm not sure we're able to even begin really solving things until we stop treating poverty and hunger as problems created by personal failures rather than systemic ones
SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
October 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I'm not sure we're able to even begin really solving things until we stop treating poverty and hunger as problems created by personal failures rather than systemic ones
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October 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Ways to support this liberal LGBTQIA business. We would love your support!
- order supplements
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- shop from our Tools or Gift page
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www.releasembrace.com/gift-ideas
- book a Mind Body Release Session
- order supplements
www.releasembrace.com/supplements
- shop from our Tools or Gift page
www.releasembrace.com/tools
www.releasembrace.com/gift-ideas
- book a Mind Body Release Session
October 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Ways to support this liberal LGBTQIA business. We would love your support!
- order supplements
www.releasembrace.com/supplements
- shop from our Tools or Gift page
www.releasembrace.com/tools
www.releasembrace.com/gift-ideas
- book a Mind Body Release Session
- order supplements
www.releasembrace.com/supplements
- shop from our Tools or Gift page
www.releasembrace.com/tools
www.releasembrace.com/gift-ideas
- book a Mind Body Release Session
How is everyone doing supporting their nervous system? Are you using tools that your body responds favorably too?
Do they include?
- Somatic Work
- Parts Work
- Mind Body Spirit Release
What about tools like?
- Acupressure Mat
- Apollo Neuro
- Weighted Blanket or Pad
- PEMF Mat
- Vibration Plate
Do they include?
- Somatic Work
- Parts Work
- Mind Body Spirit Release
What about tools like?
- Acupressure Mat
- Apollo Neuro
- Weighted Blanket or Pad
- PEMF Mat
- Vibration Plate
October 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
How is everyone doing supporting their nervous system? Are you using tools that your body responds favorably too?
Do they include?
- Somatic Work
- Parts Work
- Mind Body Spirit Release
What about tools like?
- Acupressure Mat
- Apollo Neuro
- Weighted Blanket or Pad
- PEMF Mat
- Vibration Plate
Do they include?
- Somatic Work
- Parts Work
- Mind Body Spirit Release
What about tools like?
- Acupressure Mat
- Apollo Neuro
- Weighted Blanket or Pad
- PEMF Mat
- Vibration Plate
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A very incomplete list of things we wouldn't have done if we waited for the normies to care:
- abolish slavery
- child labor laws
- votes for women
- social security
- fdic
- welfare
- medicare
- medicaid
- desegregation
- women's sports
- abolish slavery
- child labor laws
- votes for women
- social security
- fdic
- welfare
- medicare
- medicaid
- desegregation
- women's sports
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
A very incomplete list of things we wouldn't have done if we waited for the normies to care:
- abolish slavery
- child labor laws
- votes for women
- social security
- fdic
- welfare
- medicare
- medicaid
- desegregation
- women's sports
- abolish slavery
- child labor laws
- votes for women
- social security
- fdic
- welfare
- medicare
- medicaid
- desegregation
- women's sports
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Society’s unwillingness to process trauma related to the on-going covid-19 pandemic is why we are where we are ushering in fascism - just like it happened after the 1918 flu pandemic.
We have to be better. We have to use and share our tools.
What tools work for you in dealing with trauma?
We have to be better. We have to use and share our tools.
What tools work for you in dealing with trauma?
October 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Society’s unwillingness to process trauma related to the on-going covid-19 pandemic is why we are where we are ushering in fascism - just like it happened after the 1918 flu pandemic.
We have to be better. We have to use and share our tools.
What tools work for you in dealing with trauma?
We have to be better. We have to use and share our tools.
What tools work for you in dealing with trauma?
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Link was one of the strongest disability advocates on Bsky and continues to be a force for disability advocacy off Bsky. His banning is hostile to the communities he serves, and the pretext for doing so is paper-thin.
Link was one of the early members of Bluesky, he's a lawyer and disability advocate. He pointed out Jay, the CEO of Bluesky was following a noted transphobe and was critical of this. Then he was suspended. When people were like WTF, it was said his ban was due to posting a Charlie Kirk reaction meme
Who is link and why were they banned, I finally gotta ask
October 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Link was one of the strongest disability advocates on Bsky and continues to be a force for disability advocacy off Bsky. His banning is hostile to the communities he serves, and the pretext for doing so is paper-thin.
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Disabled people should be allowed to get married without losing our healthcare. We shouldn’t have to choose between weddings and staying alive. In 2025 we still have no marriage rights or property rights. We never have, and it’s total shit. Fuck Eugenics, we deserve so much better.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Disabled people should be allowed to get married without losing our healthcare. We shouldn’t have to choose between weddings and staying alive. In 2025 we still have no marriage rights or property rights. We never have, and it’s total shit. Fuck Eugenics, we deserve so much better.
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Hearing an estimate of 2000-3000 people at the clear lake, Texas gathering today. Will be interesting to see final count.
October 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Hearing an estimate of 2000-3000 people at the clear lake, Texas gathering today. Will be interesting to see final count.
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Dear liberals,
If you identify as a leftist who believes in intersectional justice & fighting fascism, please wear a mask in public. It’s one small act of solidarity with the millions living with long Covid - and a reminder that caring for others includes protecting their health
If you identify as a leftist who believes in intersectional justice & fighting fascism, please wear a mask in public. It’s one small act of solidarity with the millions living with long Covid - and a reminder that caring for others includes protecting their health
October 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Dear liberals,
If you identify as a leftist who believes in intersectional justice & fighting fascism, please wear a mask in public. It’s one small act of solidarity with the millions living with long Covid - and a reminder that caring for others includes protecting their health
If you identify as a leftist who believes in intersectional justice & fighting fascism, please wear a mask in public. It’s one small act of solidarity with the millions living with long Covid - and a reminder that caring for others includes protecting their health
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The medication stockpile bill is the bill I had pegged this year as the most important kind of bill to pass given federal threats, with a short time window to make it happen. Washington passed the same bill earlier this year.
It's so shameful for Newsom to veto this bill.
It's so shameful for Newsom to veto this bill.
1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills.
Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.
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Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.
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Gavin Newsom Vetoes Important HRT Stockpiling Bill For Trans Californians, Signs Other Pro-LGBTQ+ Bills
The bill would have allowed transgender people to maintain a safe supply of medication in the era of government crackdowns on care.
www.erininthemorning.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The medication stockpile bill is the bill I had pegged this year as the most important kind of bill to pass given federal threats, with a short time window to make it happen. Washington passed the same bill earlier this year.
It's so shameful for Newsom to veto this bill.
It's so shameful for Newsom to veto this bill.
Society’s unwillingness to process trauma related to the on-going covid-19 pandemic is why we are where we are ushering in fascism - just like it happened after the 1918 flu pandemic.
We have to be better. We have to use and share our tools.
What tools work for you in dealing with trauma?
We have to be better. We have to use and share our tools.
What tools work for you in dealing with trauma?
October 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Society’s unwillingness to process trauma related to the on-going covid-19 pandemic is why we are where we are ushering in fascism - just like it happened after the 1918 flu pandemic.
We have to be better. We have to use and share our tools.
What tools work for you in dealing with trauma?
We have to be better. We have to use and share our tools.
What tools work for you in dealing with trauma?