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to rewild your witchcraft

walk barefoot on stones in shallow streams.

talk to the wind and let it carry away your regrets.

forage for wildflowers to place on your altar, press in thrifted books, or give to loved ones —be careful when identifying

watch sunrises and sunsets. wake up before the sun. bare witness to the painted sky.

spend hours in the woods among the wild. take long long walks or sit still and watch the world.

talk to plants and listen to them. make friends.

get field guides to trees, plants, birds, etc. that are native to your area. learn which are which. bookmark pages that you recognize or want to find.

sing back to the robins. caw back to the crows.

journal by firelight and feel the flame burn your worries away.

gather snow and bring a bowl inside. talk to it and tell it your worries. your fears. let it melt, transmuting your stress and worries into healing nourishment. bring it outside and water the soil. see how things can be changed.

dance. run. move your body to sweat, if this is something you can do

collect stones from the river and try to find the best ones. keep them in your pocket. hold onto them to remember that you’re an animal.

go to a lake and float. feel the water carry you. lifting you from your stress. bring a vial and collect some for spellwork.

make a necklace out of an acorn and thread.

stand in the rain. dance in it. lay down in the grass and let it pour. let it wash fears away, transform doubt to hope. start anew.

𖤣.𖥧.𖡼.⚘

(wild winter witchcraft here)

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Celtic Carving

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After attempting to help offer healthy, and non harmful approaches to coping with ed in the T33ny Tw1gs community, I was banned for no reason. These communities exist to pull people deeper into mental illness and eating disorders.

Last night, I had posted a deficit≠deprivation post (which is available on my side blog @coping-ed ), and multiple people found the information helpful. There was positive feedback. This morning, I was banned from the community.

I fear for those suffering with ed and their safety. I didn’t think Tumblr would be a place where I would feel afraid or afraid for others. Please please please, do not let these toxic communities pull people deeper into the darkness that is ed.

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‧₊˚ 🦌✩ ₊˚ 🏔️ — mentally i am in this quiet corner of nature, listening to the birds singing, talking to the deer, finding peace and tranquility in the rustling of the leaves ✶

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A video from 4 years ago today. Since then they had to remove this bridge for safety reasons but for those last couple years it had begun to look like something from a fantasy story.

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North Bear Creek - Winneshiek County, IA

July 5, 2025

(sound on! 🔊)

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This sound heals me 💚🌿

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I stood out in the pouring rain during a thunderstorm.

It was pummeling down on my head and hands. The wind felt brisk, but the small stream at my feet was warm from the roadside.

I stood out there and spoke to the rain.

I think it listened.

Because I feel better 🌧️

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(by elliothawkey)

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Lancashire, England. 

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Takeo Shrine in Japan

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THANK YOU for getting those communities taken down. I am saying this as an anorexic who isn’t ready to recover. I’m saying this from a hospital bed after a bad, dangerous relapse.

So many of the people in those communities are young girls who WANT to be anorexic. I’ve looked into those communities but have never posted, and seeing “hi i’m new to this” “just getting into ana” “how to starve/fast” makes me sick. So many forget that eating disorders are MENTAL disorders, an absolutely debilitating mental disorder that aren’t fun games to play. The internet has warped our brains, and it’s reaching for kids younger and younger to glorify this disease. I’m not sure what wire got pulled that makes people want mental disorders, be it anorexia or some other.

My mother was a bulimic who lost my baby sister to it. Seeing “how to purge” tips online really upset me, and seeing these children who “want to be friends with ana” drives me up the wall. I’ve been in and out of the hospital, medical bill after medical bill piling onto a woman who was struggling herself. I’ve come close to death, and the hell I’ve put my family through was never worth it. These “tips” that are being given out have KILLED people.

Other communities are out there, I’m hoping you as well as other people keep it up. I’m anorexic, I see where they’re coming from in their posts, but giving out tips for people to harm themselves with isn’t in any way considered support. Telling an alcoholic to drink isn’t support, telling someone to relapse on drugs isn’t support. Telling a 13 year old girl the way she can get skinny by not eating and hiding isn’t support. Why not focus on harm reduction?

Another thing: pedophiles. The amount of body-checks I see that are semi-naked teenagers is sickening. They post pictures of their bodies and get messaged by random pedophilic accounts. Where did we go wrong? Are they not teaching internet safety in schools anymore?

Sorry for the long-ass response, I’m back in the hospital and fired up 🤣 stay safe Autumn Sierra, they’ll say you’re doing more harm than good.

Thank you for your message! As someone who’s struggled with ED myself (although not anorexia), I also understand how toxic those communities can be. Rather than lift each other up, they drag each other deeper down the spiral of mental and physical illness. I created a community that focuses on proactive coping rather than recovery since recover can seem very daunting in the beginning. I hope more people with ED will join and I can share some healthier approaches and encouragement that helped me on my journey 💚

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hi there, I’m glad you’re recovered but I just wanted to let you know that not everyone’s recovery experience is the same as yours. By shutting down our communities, you are making so many teens feel like they’re “in trouble” for engaging in ED behaviors, all you’re doing in piling shame on top of everything. Most of us don’t have access to recovery, and for some of us, the idea of taking that step is too much. In a society where we are shamed for having EDs at all, it’s important to have some kind of outlet to talk about the darker side of EDs, even if that means voicing the part of our brains that doesn’t want to recover. Please respect that we are in a different headspace than you are, and this is how we cope with having a debilitating mental illness.

I understand that. I sympathize with it a lot as well, I still struggle with my ED to a degree at times. Actively supporting ED and encouraging/bullying people (especially minors) to starve themselves (because I saw a multitude of anorexia content, not so much bulimia) is the worst kind of community someone with ED could possibly have. The fact that the community members don’t care or can’t see it means that they’re spiraling too deep because of their “support system”. It’s nice to not feel like you’re alone in the ED experience, but it’s so damaging for those people to drag you down further into ED behavior.

If the only way you can cope with the mental illness is by perpetuating it, that’s not coping. Just like self harm. Community members act like self harm and ED are two different things and they’re not. With ED you’re just causing more damage to your body much more slowly and over long term.

I want to say that online communities dissolving because of harmful content is not people with ED being scolded or punished. I know it’s perceived that way and it can feel like a betrayal. But in all honesty, it’s to prevent further harm out of care for people’s well being. Especially when they’re young teenagers.

I can’t say I’m not glad that thousands of minors now won’t be bullied and encouraged to starve and harm themselves. Id honestly like to offer an actual support system where people with ED can make healthy goals for themselves and lose body fat in a way that doesn’t harm their bodies or minds. I want more individuals to have an experience like mine, where I was able to cope with my ED, lose weight in a healthy way, accept my body in reality, and find love for food that I don’t need to feel guilt or shame for. Im still coping with my ED, but it’s not as difficult anymore since I’ve learned how to be more honest with myself.

I also want to say that I am not the only one who disagreed with the ED community. I was just the only one who spoke out to people in the comments to help them. As far as I know there were other people who found the community and reported it.

I’m currently in one of the recovery communities on tumblr hoping to offer more of my advice like I’d done in the ED community. I might even make my own community specifically about the topics I mentioned earlier. Not a recovery community, but a coping community. I want people to have the feeling of togetherness and friendship while they work toward something better. That’s what a support system should be 💚

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Trying to exercise my visualization muscles by reading more fiction. I usually read reference texts now (university really beat the enjoyment of academic articles into my cells), but I miss my fantasy 🧚

I finished Howl’s Moving Castle, and now I’ve moved on to the first book of The Witcher Series.