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Ok I get the Mel Robbins hype ..

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I heard about this really cool perspective / philosophy today, It theorises that the three factors behind the creation of a ‘problem’ are :

- the circumstance

- the observer of the circumstance

- and the observer’s judgement or story surrounding the circumstance.

Problems are only created from the pre-existing beliefs about certain things we had programmed into us as small children or through epigenetics ( generational trauma). An example could be that being unable to repress our emotions after a highly traumatic experience could be seen by someone (in this example) as deeply shameful because they hold the core belief that showing emotions is shameful therefore it’s a problem.

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I’ve just finished my work placement that I had to do for my second semester (3rd year of college complete!! 🥲). I am definitely going to miss it, mainly my manager and the students I was working with. I up-skilled technologically and revealed to myself how good I am at social care. This feels like a bit of a transition for me as working at this day service has become a comfort place for me . I also have only ever worked in one other company so it’s a change to now be in the hunt for jobs again since I don’t have any intention of returning to my original employer ( pre the paid internship / job) . It also has helped me to be so busy that I can avoid having to process / work on a lot of stuff . I have been doing some more stuff though ( I talked about it in my previous post) that has been helping spur me along on the road to ??? Happy life idk .

I had a bit of a spiral when I got home from my last day ( which was today) surrounding something I realised a few weeks ago. This realisation was that: I’ve been avoiding going out and meeting / talking to new people (my age) because to do so I have to confront quite a few profound insecurities. These insecurities would be about my looks and my personality . I realised I have stuff I need to process and that I need to start opening myself up and putting myself out there gradually in order to heal and connect to others my age . I’ve been feeling so isolated because - I’ve been isolating myself!!!. I calmed down about it because I reminded myself it is a process and I have a lot of tools to work with .

Life is good and I have a job interview on Friday …

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this website is too fucking easy you make a post about transgender gay sex or the skull and people black out and hit reblog

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So using the Legatum Prosperity Index's data as a base I made a map of global prosperity calculated along axes that actually matter like healthcare and the environment, and not distorted by like "economic freedom" indexes aka "oh wow its so easy to run a chain of used car dealerships here"

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what i read in aug. 2023:

(previous editions) bold = favourite

race, gender, sexuality

the blind side was always trash

he’s the trans son of an anti-trans influencer. it's his turn to speak

'the eurocentric fallacy': the myths that underpin european identity

is there a sinister side to the rise of female robots?

i call myself a spinster, but that doesn’t mean l’ll be single forever

politics & current affairs

the land beyond the drug war (usa)

how torture, deception and inaction underpin the uae’s thriving sex trafficking industry

wa mp james hayward found guilty of child sex abuse, disqualified from parliament (australia)

a north korean defector captivated us media. some question her story (usa)

history, culture, & personal essays

loneliness: coping with the gap where friends used to be

inside barbados' historic push for slavery reparations

ahead of time: on poetry and mourning

dreaming of water with tiger salamanders

i stole my neighbour's tragedy to write a short story

nuclear tech: war, power, & oppenheimer

the cautionary tale of j. robert oppenheimer

315 nuclear bombs and ongoing suffering: the shameful history of nuclear testing in australia and the pacific

revisiting hiroshima in iran (journal of international security, open access)

japan releases treated wastewater from fukushima nuclear plant into pacific ocean

spectre of maralinga hangs over aukus nuclear waste for indigenous communities (aus/us)

the dark history oppenheimer didn't show

don't let the victors define morality – hiroshima was always indefensible

if you're interested in more peer-reviewed resources on the american bombings of hiroshima/nagasaki please let me know!

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To choose to love in both a dying and living world is an act of humility.

-qbv

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No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

Mooji

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This is for all the younger gen Z women, particularly those of you within the ages of 17 to roughly 23. This is written from an American perspective, things might be a little different depending on where you're from.

I graduated high school with the unconscious assumption that certain systems will take care of me. The medical system would educate me on proper nutrition and health issues was probably my largest underlying assumption, but really I just had trust in institutions generally.

This isn't true. You are responsible for learning. As an example, I have been vegetarian since age 14. Nobody talked to me about proper nutrition, they just told me I needed to eat more protein.

I lived a decade of my life having shortness of breath, sleeping issues, clumsiness, cold hands and feet, having brain fog, extreme fatigue, heightened anxiety, etc. My period was extremely light and brown, it'd last for about 2 or so days. I'd go and talk about these problems, and telling doctors that I was vegetarian was one of the first things that came out of my mouth just with any visit because I knew at least that piece was important to communicate.

There was really no action taken over the span of about 10 years. I was told the period thing was normal, that changes for women. A sleep specialist let me know that feeling exhausted was also normal. The brain fog was probably due to anxiety. Here, try allergy medication (tbh that did help for other reasons). Then one day I just asked them to check my vitamin and mineral levels. Prior to this I didn't think you can make requests to doctors, I thought you showed up and they performed tests on what they recommended. With some reluctance from my primary care physician and some compromise because she said my insurance wouldn't cover testing things like B12 levels (I later found out from a nurse that, they would, she would have just needed to fill out extra paperwork), she did some tests.

I found out both my iron and D3 levels were low. What else could be?

I later learned pretty much all the vitamins common to be low for vegetarians were low. D3, magnesium, vitamin Bs, iron, and healthy fats. Bought some liquid vitamins (because the body only absorbs 10% of the pill supplements), began eating an avocado a day, my period became normal for the first time in nine years, and I am able to function.

Another example of how human systems won't educate you: I don't have feeling in some of my toes due to wearing incorrect sized footwear for years resulting in permanent nerve damage. I'm size 11.5 in women's, and I was relying on someone to tell me how proper footwear worked, because surely the guy in the minimum wage position working the footwear section would know.

Don't trust human systems to guide you through how certain things work. Seek specific specialists and experts when you can, and inform yourself on your own. Don't blindly trust search engines like Google, it's not like how it used to be when I was growing up and many millennial adults will tell you to "just google things" because we're used to finding actual substantive answers when we do. However, now, usually whoever pays is who makes the first page or two of search engines, it has nothing to do with what information is "most correct". Don't be afraid to request certain tests be done by doctors or certain referrals made to different specialists.

Edit: And also, I've found general practitioners are terrible when you walk in and tell them about several different symptoms at one time. They're more used to treating one symptom at a time, and they treat the symptom not the root cause. If you go in with a runny nose, general practitioners are going to throw medications at you to try and treat the runny nose, not look deeper into what's causing the runny nose. It's equivalent to if you're in a boat and it's sinking, they're bailing out water without actually fixing the hole or trying to figure out where it is, with the exception of emergency situations and even then it depends.

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29 August 1904 James Joyce to Nora Barnacle Joyce Letters of James Joyce [originally published 1966]

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Don’t ever put your happiness in someone else’s hands. They’ll drop it. They’ll drop it everytime.

C.Barzak

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Lesbian Gender Outlaw

Lesbian Gender Outlaw is an eight-page comic about the inexplicable relationship between gender, nonconformity, and lesbianism, as told by a cowboy. Riso printed in orange on pink paper.

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