One big problem is most vanilla community spaces do absolutely nothing to mitigate COVID anymore which makes them pretty inaccessible to me. Kink spaces still actually take it somewhat seriously and in a more sane balanced approach. I think the way we discuss risk assessments helps

"Has penis: Y, Testicles: 1 only, taking exogenous testosterone, prostate: Y, breast tissue: minimal, womb: N"

My friends who died should still be here. My friends who have terrible, debilitating disabilities from long covid should still be able-bodied and doing the things they used to. It's tremendously unjust and horrible and there's nothing I can personally do except mask. So I mask! Please do it with me.

I want to be able to see you and hang out with you and kiss you and eat with you and go to the movies with you! And I'll be so much more likely to do those things if we all take care of ourselves. I'm not getting less disabled. Some of my friends have died. The only thing I can do is mask!

If you used to but have stopped, there's no reason not to start again! If you never really did, this is a perfect time to start. Things are bad and our health system is being torn apart by people who want you to die. Help yourself and help your loved ones by upping the odds of staying healthy.

These past few years have taught me the depths of individual selfishness and I don't feel like I have any way of reaching most people, but if you're reading this and you care about me at all, please mask! On the bus or in the store or at the movies... masking is an act of care for all of us.

101 is the same as the one we did at Beguiled and in Baltimore

Agency is slightly revised with one new section on conditioning

What You Think is What You Get is substantially improved and revised

I really hope the border stuff chills out someday and we can meet

If you’re attending a hypno con and haven’t seen Mutt present, you absolutely owe it to yourself to go! Or at least check out her website and read the excellent articles she’s written

I used to have a non-kink vanilla friend group and a hypno friend group and i did not invite the non-kink friends to my hypno events but guess what kinks they turned out to all have

"You feel unencumbered by speed limits. You feel limitless. You embrace the freedom of the pike and pass all obstacles in your wayl

People who move to Somerville to work for Boston Dynamics and subsequently get worse at driving

Leaving this here for anyone that wants a plain-language explanation of how IFS has a high likelihood of creating a mess.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXuF...

I know plenty of people who identify as plural systems who seem to find it to be a system that works for them, and good for them, I hope it keeps working for them. But IFS *prescribes* plurality to people who did not already experience or identify with it. It's not necessary or useful.

I just kinda was like hmmmmm let's put that back. Maybe I've gotten what I needed from their framework and should stop. and I'm glad I did. I challenged myself to instead try to be one single person, to view myself as one holistic multifaceted whole, and found it to be much healthier for me.

Sometimes you manage to tap into like, specifically your inner child who was afraid after a nightmare when you were 4

and I just remember thinking like... does this part of me really need a name and identity and persistent wants and needs? Do I have to live with it now? That seems unproductive

From 2018-2021 I dabbled in a multiplicity framework for viewing my identity and did some self-IFS. For one very specific problem, I found meditating and "talking to" parts to be profoundly helpful, but the more I delved into it, I started to just find new problems I didn't have before.

Today my friend Nyx Goddess Games said to me that hypnosis is not for fixing problems, it's better for creating problems. That can be really fun. But when we want to fix things, we probably want to put down the tool for making people experience hallucinations

You can use hypnotherapy for irritable bowel syndrome, which is crazy, but it's only as effective as using cognitive behavior therapy for irritable bowel syndrome.