#BeClearAboutThat.

[joannapetitioner]

Being “triggered” is not the same as being “offended.”  

You choose what you are offended by and that is your responsibility.  

Real triggers live in your body and they are not your responsibility.

They are a result of trauma that is inflicted on us directly or indirectly by someone else or by an experience.

What is our responsibility is getting to know ourselves and healing and better understanding and equipping ourselves for when our triggers happen.

Because triggers happen.

We do not create nor activate real triggers independently.

Most important though— is forgiving your own self for having normal natural reactions to triggering experiences.

#WeNeedEachOther.

#BeClearAboutThat.

Music is “Door To Unreality” by @audiocoffeemusic1 - https://www.tiktok.com/@audiocoffeemusic1 / (https://www.audiocoffee.net/)

Video credits:

alexey_valeev  - https://www.instagram.com/alexey_valeev/ - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuewAN3qV_6m7kJJtYNceRA

DPMediaGroup  - https://www.dpmediagroup.com/  - https://www.youtube.com/user/dpmediagroup

[joannapetitioner]

As far as “the court” having “inherent power”…

Why on earth do we refer to real live human beings,

who are ultimately just human beings like we are,

as if they are some sort of non-human entity known simply as “the court”?  

Where is there even added information about how that came to be?

And this whole thing of judges having “inherent power”—

well, that’s at the core of what is also termed “judge made law”—

they gave themselves that level of power

and everyone else scared straight into the status quo continues to prop that up for them.  

This is why we live in what you can call a “judicial dictatorship.”

#EndJudicialDictatorship.

#EliminateSuperLegalStatus.

#BeClearAboutThat.

[joannapetitioner]

The whole of our Shared World is one giant reactive environment for #AllOfUs and the natural innate ability that we have when we are born into this world is warped by external influences that surround us.

And, that's not even taking into account babies that are born with physical afflictions from the womb...

Just living in this lifetime on this planet is one big major survival-based life event for all of us— even if you may have certain financial means and resources to have a certain level of comfort to be able to sit in an otherwise sheltered bubble.

What's touted as "healthy coping" is often simply shoving us into actual maladaptation to things that we're otherwise told we need to accept as "normal" and this is a baseline of what Women experience especially.

Sometimes, you realize that you are so "successfully" "adapted" and "coping" throughout your life that you weren't even able to recognize the massive dysfunction and resulting dissociation and dysregulation for what it was,

what it is.

It can be really helpful to confront the awful underlying horrific nightmare that is your actual reality and funnel your own energy into healing yourself— which is not the same as this f**ked up concept of "forgiveness" that gets thrown around a lot— especially at Women holding those who mistreat and abuse us directly accountable for their own corresponding choices.

#AllOfUs.

#WeNeedEachOther.

#BeClearAboutThat.

[joannapetitioner]

Why the f*ck do we live like this?

We live like this because we still believe in magic. 

We often call those things in our lives miracles. 

We create a savior for ourselves out of the thin air of another human being. 

We tell ourselves those things that we would readily understand as atrocities in an alternate universe— are somehow always acceptable in this one. 

We think that those we play the game of electing –

even though they’re documented as spending their whole lives participating in definitive acts of evil –

are then somehow going to be magically accountable to us. 

We don’t yet understand how progress really works. 

We can though. 

We have to step out. 

We will only ever understand what we truly care about first.

#WeNeedEachOther.

#BeClearAboutThat. 

Music credits:

isles4~1.wav by madmerv -- https://freesound.org/s/690654/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

https://freesound.org/people/madmerv/  - https://www.youtube.com/user/MadM3rv  - https://soundcloud.com/madmerv

Video credits:

cottonbro studio  - https://omycotton.com/  - https://www.instagram.com/cottonbro/  - @cottonbro

[joannapetitioner]

 “Survival of the fittest” is not a command. 

It’s merely a simple tool to measure our own Evolution. 

Human Beings are supposed to be Evolved. 

The first sign of Civilization was a buried broken bone that had healed on a human. 

Meaning— other people around protect and care for that injured disabled human.

Meaning— we know how important it is that we each thrive among ourselves.

Civilization  means truly caring for the people around us who need added assistance out in the wild. 

We are Evolved when we preserve individual autonomy at the same time we care for each other. 

We are Evolved and truly Civilized when we do unto others as we would have them do unto us.  Evolution is seeing yourself in others. 

#AllOfUs. 

#WeNeedEachOther. 

#BeClearAboutThat.

Music credits:

before we grow up (Loop) by ShadyDave -- https://freesound.org/s/341857/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 - https://soundcloud.com/lustersound

Video credits:

Video by Pixabay at https://www.pexels.com/@pixabay/

https://pixabay.com/ -  https://www.instagram.com/pixabay/ -@ pixabay  - https://x.com/pixabay  - https://www.facebook.com/pixabay

[joannapetitioner]

If you were going into war with only the things you have tattooed on your body—

would you survive?

I only have scars tattooed on my body.

They stick with me Faithfully.

They've Evolved from bleeding injuries.

They Bravely face it all with me on the frontlines of my Life.

#MyScarsAreBeautiful.

#YourScarsAreBeautiful.

#EndAllWar.

____________________

 #BeClearAboutThat.

#NoMoreWar.

Music is "Keychains" Sample by wave_former -- https://freesound.org/s/725436/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1cO6zP6zin9w6FbJ8Rteos

Video credits:

Amar Preciado

https://www.pexels.com/@amar/

https://www.instagram.com/amarphotographer/

@amarpreciado https://www.tiktok.com/@amarpreciado

[joannapetitioner]

What if it really isn’t you?

What if you’re not actually the one who’s “socially awkward” or “combative”? Maybe what you really do is just: Tell it like it is.

Maybe other people feel awkward themselves because you’re not conforming in that moment.

Maybe it’s those other people who don’t actually know how to be Real.

And maybe the real reason why they feel attacked is— because what you’re reflecting for them causes them to have to think about certain scary things.

And then they feel real fear about where they’re living and that’s what makes them uncomfortable.

Dealing with the #WholeTruth causes disruption.

And, a lot of people simply want their own troubles taken care of.

They don’t want to have to think about how what is happening demonstrates universal global shared evil.

#GetReal, #BeReal, #TellItLikeItIs, #MakeThemFeelUs,

#BeClearAboutThat,

Music is “curious 0N_18mi” by  Achim Behrens (aka “Setuniman” @ https://freesound.org/people/Setuniman/) - http://www.setuniman.com/

Video credits:

okan akdeniz from Videezy.com (https://www.videezy.com/members/okanakdeniz) - https://www.storyblocks.com/video/portfolio/okanakdeniz -

https://audiojungle.net/user/okanakdeniz

Nontanun Chaiprakon from Videezy.com (https://www.videezy.com/members/tavan-501)

ahmet odabas from Videezy.com (https://www.videezy.com/members/ahmetodabasi35)  - ttps://www.dreamstime.com/ahmetodabasi_info

[joannapetitioner]

It’s the little waves…

It’s never the big waves.

Big waves crashing over a pebble on the beach cause only momentary disruption.

It’s the little waves.  Moment-by-moment.  Back-and-forth.  In to shore and back out to the ocean.

It’s the little waves washing over the pebble

all the time

day after day

that finally break the pebble down until it’s nothing but sand.

It’s the little waves that do the most damage.

#BeClearAboutThat.

[joannapetitioner]

The American legal system is vast and tentacled and largely lives within a judicial dictatorship. Add to this, the fact that Americans have an addiction to trauma porn and that we all live within a world where we are ruled over by a dominator culture that glorifies and fetishizes violence.  You can easily say it exists at the frontline of what is truly the functional definition of “domestic terrorism” if you see it clearly.  Why aren’t we all asking the fundamental questions that we ask to learn about the world around us as we grow up:  Why?  Why is that?  #BeClearAboutThat.

[joannapetitioner]

What do you do when people accuse you of being “dark”?

The world around us is full of awful stuff.

We need to be talking to each other all the time.

We need to be growing our connections with each other.

How are we supposed to do that if we’re not allowed to talk about everything?

Maybe people accuse you of being dark because they’re scared of their own shadows.

We need to acknowledge the dark parts of our lives so that we can recognize the Light.

You are Brave when you face the darkness out loud.

#BeTheLight.

#WeNeedEachOther.

#BeClearAboutThat.

Music credits:

GotMoBluez 120 Am.wav by BaDoink -- https://freesound.org/s/575020/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Video credits:

Debendra Das:  https://www.pexels.com/@debphotography/  - https://www.instagram.com/_debs_photography/  - _debs_photography  -  https://www.facebook.com/capturedbydebendra

[joannapetitioner]

You can't be worried about how you're going to be received in Life.

The most important thing is just to stay True to who you know you are—

to do your Best to be a Good Being out in our Shared World.

It happens with all of us—

sometimes you mean one thing

and then someone else takes it totally the opposite.

It can be shocking even.

It’s likely that you've had experiences where you had every Best Intention.

You intended to have a positive impact and

instead—

the other person took it all in the wrong way.

If we all worried all the time about how we were going to be received—

we'd likely stay mostly paralyzed.

#FreeYourself.

#WeNeedEachOther.

#BeClearAboutThat.

Music credits:

African Wildlife Loopable Instrumental African Vibes by CarlosCarty -- https://freesound.org/s/427026/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

Video credits:

Jools Magools  - https://www.pexels.com/@jools-magools-1051252906/

https://www.youtube.com/@joolsmagools1  - @joolsmagools1

https://www.instagram.com/jools_magools/  - @jools_magools

https://x.com/joolsmagools   - @joolsmagools

[joannapetitioner]

It’s not the noise –

the clanging in your ears –

the blasting over and over in your brain –

that makes you angry.

It’s what’s underneath the noise –

embedded disregard of your Existence –

systematized dehumanization of your Soul –

that makes you angry.

In the face of others’ disrespect, you can respect yourself.

You don’t need to drown out your own Being.

Hear the noise and let it move through You.

Hold your own Life in High Esteem.

Honor who You are.

#OwnYourVoice.

#YourLifeMatters.

#BeClearAboutThat.

Music credits:

Flood by LogicMoon -- https://freesound.org/s/702947/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0

Tobias Lorsbach / Logic Moon Music - https://logic-moon.de/  - https://www.youtube.com/@LogicMoonMusic  - @LogicMoonMusic

https://www.instagram.com/logicmoonmusic/  - @logicmoonmusic

https://logicmoon.bandcamp.com/album/last-dayshttps://soundcloud.com/logic-moon/popular-tracks

Video credits:

Anna Tarazevich  - https://www.pexels.com/@anntarazevich/ 

- https://annatarazevich.com/  - https://www.instagram.com/anntarazevich/  - @ anntarazevich

Suhaib Abu Salim - https://www.pexels.com/@suhaib-abu-salim-115809335/

Gal Shapira  - https://www.pexels.com/@gal-shapira/  - https://www.instagram.com/Galshapira.eth/ - @galshapira.eth  - https://x.com/Galshapiraeth  - @galshapiraeth 

-  https://www.tiktok.com/@galshapira.eth  -  @galshapira.eth

[joannapetitioner]

Having a full set of emotions doesn’t make you “crazy.”

Feeling a certain sort of way doesn’t mean you’re out-of-control.

People do sh*tty things all the time.

And then, they turn around and back you into a corner with how you’re feeling about it.

They make it so you don’t know what to say to confront them with their sh*ttiness.

You end up feeling like they’ll make it seem like your emotions were uncalled for.

The truth is, sometimes we do feel a certain way that may be unreasonable or inappropriate.

And so, the self-doubt can sink in.

Especially if you know that you’re dealing with someone you see badmouthing others.

For sure, you do deserve the same respect you give to others.

That doesn’t even mean you have to be perfect.

If someone treats you sh*tty, it’s way okay to call them out on it.

#GoldenRule.

#MakeThemFeelUs.

#BeClearAboutThat.

Music credits:

Cute Music by Migfus20/ Schwarzenegger Belonio -- https://freesound.org/s/559832/ -- License: Creative Commons 0  - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGlgOXm1I0bz_QF1nGpkRyQ  - @migfus1780

Video credits:

Skyler Ewing - https://www.pexels.com/@skyler-ewing-266953/  -https://www.eyeem.com/u/skylerewing - @skylerewing  - https://www.instagram.com/skyler/  - @skyler

[joannapetitioner]

Those among all of us who call for #AbolitionNow see the sickness for what it is. 

We understand that when you perform surgery to excise a life-threatening affliction, you have to cut it all out. 

Any trace of infection left lingering in a body can become septic spreading rapidly where death can then come quickly. 

We speak of Fire burning in our Souls. 

Fire does not “perch” like a winged bird of hope sitting outside your window just out of reach in reality. 

When your Phoenix burns, you spread your blazing wings rising gloriously from the ashes with brand new vibrant Life.

#MakeThemFeelUs.

#BeClearAboutThat.

Video credits:

cottonbro studio  - https://omycotton.com/  - https://www.instagram.com/cottonbro/  - @cottonbro

[joannapetitioner]

It can be hard to be direct with people sometimes.

You might not want to look like you’re being mean or that you’re letting someone down.

Even so, do you have time to waste yourself getting jerked around?

Do you really want to spend any of your time engaged in petty bullsh*t?

You know, the kind of petty bullsh*t that’s just an ultimate waste of time…

the runarounds

the gameplaying

the passive-aggressive nonsense.

There are better ways to treat people.

You don’t need to feed into that petty ass bullsh*t.

It may be uncomfortable to be direct with people.

Even so – that’s so much better than doing petty sh*t that just wastes other people’s time.

People do ultimately appreciate it when you respect their time too.

Each of us has our own sh*t going on every day.

#GoldenRule.

#WeNeedEachOther.

#BeClearAboutThat.

Music credits:

banjo song.mp3 by Prime45 -- https://freesound.org/s/522715/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

https://www.youtube.com/@rfr2954  -  RFR @rfr2954

https://soundcloud.com/theoneandonlyen  - Prime

https://odysee.com/@Prime45:b  - Prime45

Video credits:

Stanislav Gaberov - Photography (pexels.com)