IntrovertBookworm
@introvertbookworm.bsky.social
Mental health professional. Progressive introvert. Lover of books, science, art, architecture, nature, piano, and quiet.
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You are not a bad person who is bad for other people.
Nor are you perfect or always the best thing in everyone else's life. You're human. You're a mixed bag, just like me and all the other humans.
Grace over guilt. Just do your best today.
Nor are you perfect or always the best thing in everyone else's life. You're human. You're a mixed bag, just like me and all the other humans.
Grace over guilt. Just do your best today.
February 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
You are not a bad person who is bad for other people.
Nor are you perfect or always the best thing in everyone else's life. You're human. You're a mixed bag, just like me and all the other humans.
Grace over guilt. Just do your best today.
Nor are you perfect or always the best thing in everyone else's life. You're human. You're a mixed bag, just like me and all the other humans.
Grace over guilt. Just do your best today.
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Shame is not a tool of authentic, sustainable behavior change. Ever.
February 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Shame is not a tool of authentic, sustainable behavior change. Ever.
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The biggest obstacle to many survivors' recovery-- including mine, often-- is our addiction to the illusion we can "control" sh*t.
Swap out "control" in your vocabulary for "influence"-- then dial back your estimation of what you can realistically influence by about 80%.
Swap out "control" in your vocabulary for "influence"-- then dial back your estimation of what you can realistically influence by about 80%.
February 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The biggest obstacle to many survivors' recovery-- including mine, often-- is our addiction to the illusion we can "control" sh*t.
Swap out "control" in your vocabulary for "influence"-- then dial back your estimation of what you can realistically influence by about 80%.
Swap out "control" in your vocabulary for "influence"-- then dial back your estimation of what you can realistically influence by about 80%.
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Remember: our trauma conditioning can only win if it is successful in keeping us focused on trying to "control" things outside of ourselves, rather than INFLUENCING things INSIDE ourselves.
External "control" is a scam & a trap. Internal INFLUENCE is realistic & sustainable.
External "control" is a scam & a trap. Internal INFLUENCE is realistic & sustainable.
February 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Remember: our trauma conditioning can only win if it is successful in keeping us focused on trying to "control" things outside of ourselves, rather than INFLUENCING things INSIDE ourselves.
External "control" is a scam & a trap. Internal INFLUENCE is realistic & sustainable.
External "control" is a scam & a trap. Internal INFLUENCE is realistic & sustainable.
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"Feel the fear & do it anyway" doesn't man belittle the fear; or "stuff" the fear; or disrespect the part of us holding the fear.
There is nothing shameful about fear. Nothing.
Nothing.
That we're not letting it make our decisions doesn't mean we're denying or disowning it.
There is nothing shameful about fear. Nothing.
Nothing.
That we're not letting it make our decisions doesn't mean we're denying or disowning it.
February 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
"Feel the fear & do it anyway" doesn't man belittle the fear; or "stuff" the fear; or disrespect the part of us holding the fear.
There is nothing shameful about fear. Nothing.
Nothing.
That we're not letting it make our decisions doesn't mean we're denying or disowning it.
There is nothing shameful about fear. Nothing.
Nothing.
That we're not letting it make our decisions doesn't mean we're denying or disowning it.
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You're not making a "choice" to be so reactive-- you're responding to old conditioning. You're literally wired for it. Un-wiring that reactivity takes more than a "realization" or a "decision."
Give it time. Be consistent.
Raindrops & glaciers carve canyons.
Give it time. Be consistent.
Raindrops & glaciers carve canyons.
February 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
You're not making a "choice" to be so reactive-- you're responding to old conditioning. You're literally wired for it. Un-wiring that reactivity takes more than a "realization" or a "decision."
Give it time. Be consistent.
Raindrops & glaciers carve canyons.
Give it time. Be consistent.
Raindrops & glaciers carve canyons.
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One of Trauma Brain's cleverest tricks is, it gets us to not wanna do the stuff that will help us feel good or function better-- like, you know, feeding ourselves-- because we don't want to feel controlled.
Which, actually, is a hell of a way to control us. Just saying.
Which, actually, is a hell of a way to control us. Just saying.
February 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
One of Trauma Brain's cleverest tricks is, it gets us to not wanna do the stuff that will help us feel good or function better-- like, you know, feeding ourselves-- because we don't want to feel controlled.
Which, actually, is a hell of a way to control us. Just saying.
Which, actually, is a hell of a way to control us. Just saying.
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Taking a day to veg and recharge and and just f*ckin' BE is not "doing nothing." Many survivors grew up w/ demands on our time & focus & energy that we did not choose-- & as adults we sometimes need to remind ourselves that now WE'RE in charge of using (or not using!) our time.
February 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Taking a day to veg and recharge and and just f*ckin' BE is not "doing nothing." Many survivors grew up w/ demands on our time & focus & energy that we did not choose-- & as adults we sometimes need to remind ourselves that now WE'RE in charge of using (or not using!) our time.
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If it matters to you, it is not a "waste of time." You don't need anybody's validation to make something a worthy investment of your time & focus-- & you definitely don't need your abusers' or bullies' approval, real or imagined, to make an activity or interest valid.
February 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
If it matters to you, it is not a "waste of time." You don't need anybody's validation to make something a worthy investment of your time & focus-- & you definitely don't need your abusers' or bullies' approval, real or imagined, to make an activity or interest valid.
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If you wouldn't want your kids saying it to themselves, you have no business saying it to yourself. It doesn't matter if you don't say it out loud-- your kids will perceive & model how you relate to yourself.
(You're not the one survivor who will "fool" your kids. Sorry.)
(You're not the one survivor who will "fool" your kids. Sorry.)
February 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
If you wouldn't want your kids saying it to themselves, you have no business saying it to yourself. It doesn't matter if you don't say it out loud-- your kids will perceive & model how you relate to yourself.
(You're not the one survivor who will "fool" your kids. Sorry.)
(You're not the one survivor who will "fool" your kids. Sorry.)
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It's common, as we work our trauma recovery, to get flashes of moments in the past that will make us want to cringe-- & our job in those moments is to forgive & relate to our past self gently & compassionately.
Be ready to love on your past self in those "flashes." Flash love.
Be ready to love on your past self in those "flashes." Flash love.
February 11, 2025 at 3:08 AM
It's common, as we work our trauma recovery, to get flashes of moments in the past that will make us want to cringe-- & our job in those moments is to forgive & relate to our past self gently & compassionately.
Be ready to love on your past self in those "flashes." Flash love.
Be ready to love on your past self in those "flashes." Flash love.
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And so it begins:
Bakersfield, CA sees massive drop off in field workers as ICE agents rounded up suspected immigrants, resulting in acres of oranges left unpicked in the California sun during the most active period of the season.
“Economic devastation”
newrepublic.com/post/190555/...
Bakersfield, CA sees massive drop off in field workers as ICE agents rounded up suspected immigrants, resulting in acres of oranges left unpicked in the California sun during the most active period of the season.
“Economic devastation”
newrepublic.com/post/190555/...
Trump’s Immigration Plans Are Already Wrecking the Food Industry
Immigrant farm workers are too scared to show up to work.
newrepublic.com
January 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
And so it begins:
Bakersfield, CA sees massive drop off in field workers as ICE agents rounded up suspected immigrants, resulting in acres of oranges left unpicked in the California sun during the most active period of the season.
“Economic devastation”
newrepublic.com/post/190555/...
Bakersfield, CA sees massive drop off in field workers as ICE agents rounded up suspected immigrants, resulting in acres of oranges left unpicked in the California sun during the most active period of the season.
“Economic devastation”
newrepublic.com/post/190555/...
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Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better…
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
January 23, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better…
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
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You'll never guess who bankrolled that shady dark-money mystery group that invoked Ruth Bader Ginsberg in contradiction of her family's wishes and the political ideals she stood for www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk gave $20M to mysterious group defending Trump’s abortion stance
A group called RGB PAC that ran ads telling voters Trump would protect abortion access was funded by Elon Musk, filings show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 6, 2024 at 3:03 AM
You'll never guess who bankrolled that shady dark-money mystery group that invoked Ruth Bader Ginsberg in contradiction of her family's wishes and the political ideals she stood for www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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When authoritarianism is a family affair: from sons-in-law with Mussolini, Orban and Erdogan and Trump to Lara Trump and Charles Kushner. My new @msnbc essay. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Trump’s elevation of Charles Kushner has eerie historical parallels
Authoritarianism is often a family affair
www.msnbc.com
December 6, 2024 at 12:44 PM
When authoritarianism is a family affair: from sons-in-law with Mussolini, Orban and Erdogan and Trump to Lara Trump and Charles Kushner. My new @msnbc essay. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Trooper, the dog who went viral after a video was posted of him tied up along a Florida highway ahead of Hurricane Milton, has been adopted!
The 3 year-old pup has found his forever home with Frank and Carla Spina of Parkland, Florida.
💕
The 3 year-old pup has found his forever home with Frank and Carla Spina of Parkland, Florida.
💕
December 6, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Trooper, the dog who went viral after a video was posted of him tied up along a Florida highway ahead of Hurricane Milton, has been adopted!
The 3 year-old pup has found his forever home with Frank and Carla Spina of Parkland, Florida.
💕
The 3 year-old pup has found his forever home with Frank and Carla Spina of Parkland, Florida.
💕
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So Musk and Ramaswamy want to cut
- cancer research
- law enforcement
- veterans’ healthcare
- Alzheimer’s research
- low-income kids going to college
- low-income kids learning to read
They want to make America sicker, less safe, less educated — and WEAKER
- cancer research
- law enforcement
- veterans’ healthcare
- Alzheimer’s research
- low-income kids going to college
- low-income kids learning to read
They want to make America sicker, less safe, less educated — and WEAKER
December 6, 2024 at 4:30 AM
So Musk and Ramaswamy want to cut
- cancer research
- law enforcement
- veterans’ healthcare
- Alzheimer’s research
- low-income kids going to college
- low-income kids learning to read
They want to make America sicker, less safe, less educated — and WEAKER
- cancer research
- law enforcement
- veterans’ healthcare
- Alzheimer’s research
- low-income kids going to college
- low-income kids learning to read
They want to make America sicker, less safe, less educated — and WEAKER
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December 4, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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Jeff Tiedrich for the win:
December 2, 2024 at 12:51 AM
Jeff Tiedrich for the win:
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This guy should be on their Most Wanted list. Not the one deciding it.
December 1, 2024 at 7:29 AM
This guy should be on their Most Wanted list. Not the one deciding it.
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⚡️Putin approves Russia's budget with record spending on national defense.
Spending on war and law enforcement agencies exceeds expenditures on education, healthcare, social policy, and the national economy combined.
Spending on war and law enforcement agencies exceeds expenditures on education, healthcare, social policy, and the national economy combined.
Putin approves Russia's budget with record spending on national defense
Spending on war and law enforcement agencies exceeds expenditures on education, healthcare, social policy, and the national economy combined.
kyivindependent.com
December 1, 2024 at 10:34 AM
⚡️Putin approves Russia's budget with record spending on national defense.
Spending on war and law enforcement agencies exceeds expenditures on education, healthcare, social policy, and the national economy combined.
Spending on war and law enforcement agencies exceeds expenditures on education, healthcare, social policy, and the national economy combined.
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If you’d like to read about our Books Not Bars program, or request a book on behalf of yourself or a loved one who is incarcerated, you can do so here: www.haymarketbooks.org/pg/books-not...
November 26, 2024 at 11:02 PM
If you’d like to read about our Books Not Bars program, or request a book on behalf of yourself or a loved one who is incarcerated, you can do so here: www.haymarketbooks.org/pg/books-not...
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They only worried that he’d been caught.
November 26, 2024 at 10:21 PM
They only worried that he’d been caught.
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LOL. After Rudy cried "I have no car, no credit card, no cash, everything I have is tied up. They have put stop orders on my business accounts, and I can’t pay my bills," the judge said "You don't appear indigent. No more outbursts." www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Angry Rudy Giuliani argues with judge overseeing defamation payout: 'I can't pay my bills'
The former New York City mayor was chastised by the judge for failing to comply with court orders to turn over his assets to the two former Georgia election workers he defamed.
www.nbcnews.com
November 26, 2024 at 8:34 PM
LOL. After Rudy cried "I have no car, no credit card, no cash, everything I have is tied up. They have put stop orders on my business accounts, and I can’t pay my bills," the judge said "You don't appear indigent. No more outbursts." www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...