#Highly Sensitive

[safe-haven-safe-place]

[imaginarylungfish]

i need to remember i am sensitive and things will hurt. avoiding the hurt is useless. it's inevitable. so rather than using all my energy to avoid it, i can accept and let the hurt happen. i can let myself hurt. i can feel my pain. i will be okay.

[purlturtle]

Here's to everyone who made it through the holidays by the skin of their teeth.

Here's to the respite after.

Don't worry if you have a day (or five) where you're down and exhausted - you masked and fronted and swallowed a lot; give yourself some grace while you recuperate from that.

Rest now, be kind to yourself (and to others who might be in the same boat).

(especially in the northern hemisphere where days are short and dreary this time of year.)

[witchyfemmee]

sometimes i think about the pain and suffering that was easily avoidable in my life but i was never taken seriously until it was to late.

[cadencewishes]

[chiomakedu]

you ever…get too excited abt something and your body plunges into a stress response?

[no-longer-prophetic]

If you are “touchy” or ever called over sensitive…

Know that you may also hold the parallel potential for mastery of being able to deftly handle complex issues requiring sensitive handling. (This sounds very valuable)

[safe-haven-safe-place]

[ascendedunicorn]

Make sure you're recharging and taking care of yourself 💜

[amazinganglosaxonculture]

How to heal feminine sexuality with herbs

The herb Hibiscus.  According to the Flower Essence Society (FES), red Hibiscus (Hibiscus moscheutos) embodies the qualities of soul warmth and bodily passion. They write that “One of the most tragic assaults to the soul dignity of women is the exploitation and commercialization of female sexuality. This deeply wounds the souls of many women so that they no longer feel a warm connection to their…

[evyltalks]

emotionally constipated but so aesthetically devastating. that’s my andrew minyard.

[cariiibaez]

I never imagined but now I understand that I am absorbing people’s negative emotions that is why those people get into my mind. Having intrusive thoughts is really draining and tiring. You see that is why I said is not easy being an empath.

[fiore244]

My obsession of savouring every moment of my life has transcended into me saving every last bit of my flowers.

[holisticbudo]

Blurred Feelings

Highly sensitive people often do not know how they truly feel. Because they feel so much, including what others feel, it can be difficult to differentiate what is real from what is not. This is the downside of empathy. For highly sensitive people, the line between another person’s feelings and their own is often blurry. If not managed with firm boundaries and clear expectations, this…

[her-and-music]

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

The Bronx Zoo has just released Flaco's necropsy results.

He was not thriving, as the people championing the ideal of "freedom" claimed.

He was poisoned.

He was sick.

He was suffering.

"Freedom" would have eventually killed him. A building just happened to do it first.

"Postmortem testing has been completed for Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl that was found down in the courtyard of a Manhattan building a little over a year after his enclosure at the Central Park Zoo was vandalized on February 2, 2023. Onlookers reported that Flaco had flown into a building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on February 23, 2024, and acute trauma was found at necropsy. Bronx Zoo veterinary pathologists determined that in addition to the traumatic injuries, Flaco had two significant underlying conditions. He had a severe pigeon herpesvirus from eating feral pigeons that had become part of his diet, and exposure to four different anticoagulant rodenticides that are commonly used for rat control in New York City. These factors would have been debilitating and ultimately fatal, even without a traumatic injury, and may have predisposed him to flying into or falling from the building. The identified herpesvirus can be carried by healthy pigeons but may cause fatal disease in birds of prey including owls infected by eating pigeons. This virus has been previously found in New York City pigeons and owls. In Flaco’s case, the viral infection caused severe tissue damage and inflammation in many organs, including the spleen, liver, gastrointestinal tract, bone marrow, and brain.   No other contributing factors were identified through the extensive testing that was performed. Flaco’s severe illness and death are ultimately attributed to a combination of factors—infectious disease, toxin exposures, and traumatic injuries—that underscore the hazards faced by wild birds, especially in an urban setting."

The naturalistic fallacy kills animals in horrible ways. The romanticism of what humans want to think of as a "free, wild, pure life" cannot be allowed supplant the reality of injury, sickness, and death. Releasing captive animals (or keeping them from being recaptured) because it's "better" for them to suffer untethered than live a healthy, safe, captive life is inhumane and horrific.

Flaco's life didn't have to end in pain, sickness, and suffering.

Flaco's death didn't have to be tragic.

But once the idea of "freedom" entered the chat, Flaco's fate was unavoidable.