#health audiobooks

[eatsowhat]

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[treemaidengeek]

Hey, fellow spoonies! Got a min for a bit of writing that has absolutely transformed my relationship to my chronic illness?

This is from Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief by Jon Kabat-Zinn, based on his experiences co-running (?) a clinic specifically for people with severe unmanageable chronic illness & chronic pain. Part of the book is exercises, which weren't hugely impactful for me. But this section I've listened to over and over. It's been a game changer for me. Maybe it'll help you too.

Below the cut bc it's long.

"First, a working definition of mindfulness so we know what we're talking about when we use that word. You can think of mindfulness as pure awareness. In particular, the awareness that arises from paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, without judgment or reaction, to whatever appears in the field of your experience.

You already have awareness. It’s as much a part of being human as our capacity for thinking or for breathing. So you can always ask yourself in any moment: is my awareness of pain, in pain? and then take a look and see. You can also expand this line of investigation to ask yourself, is my awareness of fear afraid? Is my awareness of anger, angry? Is my awareness of sadness, sad? Very revealing and liberating exploration, as we shall experience firsthand.

Of course being non-judgmental and non-reactive sounds like an ideal. But it isn't, really, not in the way we’re talking about it. It's a way of being in relationship to experience, a commitment to--as best we can–suspend our judging for a time, and suspend believing in our judgements as being true.

Of course, we judge everything, and tend to react automatically whenever things are not to our liking. And we can be very emotionally reactive, especially when we're hurting. So as we shall see further on, and in the practices themselves, we just observe the judging and reacting when they arise, and–as best we can–refrain from judging our judging, or reacting to our reactions.

A number of principles, attitudes, and perspectives are important to keep in mind when cultivating a mindful approach to working with chronic pain conditions or any other distressing elements in your life.

Here are seven that are fundamental and bear revisiting and keeping in mind, and listening to again and again, just as with the meditation practices. We will be making use of them every day, and even moment by moment throughout the day.

1. As we said, as long as you’re breathing there is really more right with you than wrong, no matter what is wrong. And our work will involve mobilizing those interior resources of your own inner landscape, of your body and mind, to work for you to improve the quality of your day-to-day and moment-to-moment life.

2. One of those interior resources is the power of the present moment. The power of “now” is enormous, yet mostly we persist in living in the past or in the future, in memory or in constant anticipation, worry, and planning, most of the time. And we never realize and never recognize how powerful and healing it can be to inhabit this moment, the only one we are ever alive in.

So strange as it may sound, it turns out it is very challenging to actually live in the present moment, even though it's the only time we ever really have to do anything: for learning, for growing, for coming to terms with things as they are, for expressing our affection and appreciation for others, for loving. All this takes ongoing practice.

3. Of course we are happy to show up more in the present moment as long as it's exactly to our liking. But it usually isn't anywhere near as good or as pleasant as we would wish it to be. That is true even if we don't have a chronic pain condition that we could see as the cause of all our troubles.

Have you noticed how easy it is to always want things to be different from how they actually are?

We certainly don't want to inhabit the present moment if we don't like it, and we certainly don't like it if we are in significant pain. So we can easily get caught up in trying to distract ourselves and escape from the present moment because it's not to our liking.

4. Our usual options when faced with situations we don't like and wouldn't want anyone to suffer from, are twofold. As we just saw, we can turn away from them and try to ignore them or escape from them as best we can. Or alternatively, we can get caught up in obsessing about our troubles endlessly and feel victimized.

Either way we might (as so many people do) turn to familiar resources at our disposal to dull the pain, such as alcohol or drugs, or food or TV, even if those coping strategies don't work, are addictive, or have terrible consequences that may make our lives worse in the long run.

We might also get into the habit of being irritable, gruff, and angry a good deal of the time, out of our own pain and frustration. Or emotionally withdrawn from others and from life, distant, cut off, in a state of perpetual contraction of both body and mind.

None of these coping strategies make for much happiness and ease of being. Grinning and bearing it isn't much fun. And blaming all our troubles on the pain doesn't actually make anything any better, as we usually come to see at some point or other. This can just further compound our frustration and even despair.

5. There is a third way of dealing with painful experiences, a way of being rather than perpetual doing and forcing. One that involves neither turning away from painful experiences, nor becoming overwhelmed by them. That third way is the way of mindfulness, the way of opening to and befriending our experience, however strange that may sound.

We do this by turning toward what we most fear to feel and opening gradually, over time, and only to the degree that you choose, to the full range of our experiences in any given moment, even when what we are experiencing is highly unpleasant, aversive, and unwanted.

You could think of it as putting out the welcome mat for what is happening. Because whatever it is, it is happening already. Any attempt to turn away is really a denying of your situation, which doesn't help much. And succumbing to resignation, a sense of being defeated, or to depression or perhaps even self-pity will clearly only make matters worse. If we take the turning-away route, we will be turning away from the opportunity to learn from what the pain has to teach us.

If we take the turning-away route, even though it may seem simpler when we are in a depressed mind-state, we may never find openings, new possibilities, new beginnings, new ways of being that are available to us right inside our own circumstances and our own mind and body. We might not discover that we can become stronger and more flexible in the face of whatever it is that we are dealing with, discover new options for relating to what we are carrying – which is the root meaning in Latin of the word “to suffer.” The approach of mindfulness, of turning-toward and opening to our experience – even when it is difficult – can readily lead to new ways of seeing including new possibilities for coming to terms with our situation in the moment, whether we like it or not, whether we want it or not.

This is called resilience, an interior strength we can cultivate through practice. A way to live, and live well, with what life offers up for us: “the full catastrophe,” as Zorba the Greek called it – the human condition itself.

6. This path of mindfulness involves learning to open to experience moment by moment with kindness and compassion towards oneself, whether what you are experiencing in any given moment is pleasant, unpleasant, or neither pleasant nor unpleasant. And without judging the experience as good if we like it, bad if we don't like it, and boring if we don't have any particular feeling one way or another.

As we said earlier, that doesn’t mean we won’t be judging plenty. But we can form the intention to suspend our hair-trigger tendency to judge everything according to whether we like it or not, and also our tendency to react emotionally and fairly automatically in a similar way : with acquisitiveness, even greediness, if we like it and therefore always want it to last or want more of it; and with rejection, anger, hatred, or disappointment if we don’t like it and want it to go away.

So non-judging and emotional balance in the face of challenging circumstances will be factors we can cultivate in working mindfully with our moment-to-moment experience–not as ideals we try to impose on ourselves or strive to grab hold of, but as potentials already within ourselves that we can learn to recognize and bring into greater awareness when they do arise.

Over time and with practice, we may find that being less emotionally reactive and less harshly judgemental, and kinder and more accepting of ourselves and our moments–however they may be–becomes more and more our default setting, rather than anger, resentment, fear, self-loathing, and contraction in both the mind and the body. And since these kinds of contractions of mind and body usually increase the intensity of our pain, they just compound our misery and suffering. This is one easy way we can exert significant positive influence over our pain.

7. None of this has to do with making anything go away. We’re not trying to suppress our pain or “control” it, or suppress our emotional state. We’re not trying to fix anything at all–even though we may want to, or feel helpless and resentful that medicine cannot fix what we feel is the matter. On the contrary, we are just looking for a place to sit or to stand, a momentary refuge within which we can contemplate the present moment, and perhaps discover some respite right in the middle of things as they are, however they are. Amazingly, this stance of what I often call non-doing or just being can very quickly lead to things changing–since things are always changing, even our pain and our relationship to it.

But sometimes if we are too stuck in our thought-habits, in the same old ruts regarding our condition, desperate to get somewhere else or fix something you think might be broken, or else make it go away, our very desire and fixation may lead to its just staying around longer, as if we were actually feeding those energies, as if we ourselves are locking ourselves in and preventing our world from changing. The world and our bodies are always changing. That is a natural law: the law of impermanence. Everything changes. Why would we be an exception? So sometimes patience and forbearance may be called for, and good strategies for allowing things to change and even heal on their own."

[devinsturk]

Reading has been really hard for me since breaking down/burning out/getting sick/etc.

There is so much joy, knowledge, and power I’m missing out on because so many of the books I dream of reading are not available as audiobooks.

This is not a mistake. Ableism is an intentional force.

[thebibliosphere]

Trigger warning for scrolling motion in video.

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🎉🎉Phangs just crossed over into the top 100 best seller list in Paranormal Romance 🎉🎉

The Fluff edition is also in the top 100 best seller LGBTQ+ Romance.

Thank you gang, I’m having a rubbish health day so this has been lovely to watch from bed.

Also thank you for all the messages flailing about the story. I’m so glad that those of you who are new are enjoying it and that those of you who’ve already read it get to enjoy it again. To everyone flailing at me over how much you love the narrator, be sure to send @caitlynlynch some love too. She did a phenomenal job bringing my characters to life and I couldn’t be happier.

[thewritehag]

Maria Bamford has a memoir out called

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult

I have the audiobook and she does the reading herself, and she's very engaging*. It's almost an entirely interactive experience (there's a pdf of pictures she references) with how she speaks. It's not really surprising, I suppose, because she's an amazing comedian and actor.

She reframes the definition of "cults" by splitting her book into three parts: The Cult of Family, The Cult of Fame, and The Cult of Mental Healthcare. She talks about her relationship with her mom, her experiences with 12-step programs, about doing Target promos, and being on new meds while filming Lady Dynamite.

Memoirs don't often have morals, but this one does:

“Call AT&T! Call Dominos! Call an anti-abortion “clinic”! See if they’re pro-life for your life. All of their literature says “Life is a gift.” Have someone who answers their phone prove it to you. Yes, none of these are good and could be crap. But you deserve that free, shitty-ass crap help.” [emphasis mine]

I don't recommend books because I know that we each draw enjoyment from different places, but I highly recommend Sure, I'll Join Your Cult by Maria Bamford (e/print or audio; she treats each medium as a unique vehicle). She's funny, relatable, and a comfort.

*I know that seems like a "well, obviously" statement, but I've listened to a few memoirs and nonfictions read by the author and the reading ends up being flat

[teenagegirltoday]

the in-between moments

When you're improving yourself, and working on creating a better life overall, you'll experience a lot of what I like to call 'in-between' moments. It happens when you're faced with the comfortable urge to watch TV but have the mental thinking to go on a walk and listen to a podcast. It happens when you're on that walk and wish you were watching tv instead.

You're transforming into a new you, and it's going to take leaving behind the old you; here's some ways to make that a little easier.

🏋️Grab your laptop or phone and put on a YouTube exercise video in front of your TV. Then set your phone up where you can see the movements, but also watch whatever TV show you want to do.

🏋️Make a split window on your laptop. Sign into a streaming service or watch a movie some other way online in one window. On the other window, put on a exercise video.

🏋️ Get on the treadmill for 20 minutes, walking 3mph. (I do this and I feel fantastic afterwards.) Alter this workout until it works for you. Up the speed, slow it down, change the time, whatever you need. But watch Tiktoks while you're doing this. Get your daily scroll in and your daily movement.

🚿Listen to podcasts or the news in your shower.

🚿 Listen to a podcast when you're doing your morning (or night) skincare routine! Mindset-focused podcasts are miracle workers early in the morning.

🥪Get healthier versions of your favorite snacks and sneak them into your diet one by one. (Compare sodium levels and calories if you're in a calorie deficit for your workout routine. Consult your doctor. Don't listen to me or anyone else that isn't you or a licensed professional about your body.)

💻Limit your screen time by listening to audiobooks and giving your eyes a break. Learn the skill of listening and not ruining your eyesight. (Looking at you, Wattpaders.)

📚 Sit down and read 10 pages everyday - of a fiction book. Then 5 pages of fiction and nonfiction. Ease into it. Read a nonfiction book about your favorite interests. Love writing? Pick up an author's autobiography. Love drama? Pick up a political scandal book. Love food? Pick up a book about the history of food and it's significance in the development of cultures.

[veggiesforpresident]

can i just generally request that more people podfic their favorite fics? it makes them a lot more accessible to me

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread

The Paradox Hotel

about a woman who runs security at a time travel hotel for the wealthy, who is unstuck from time - but stays there for the memory-glimpses of her dead girlfriend

when the time travel technology is about to get privatized and mega-rich guests are arriving for the auction, more things start to get unstuck, and there’s a dead body only she can see

grief, ghosts, & dinosaurs

[rabbitfootjack]

Having dyslexia and wanting to read more sucks. It's actively painful to sit and read, to trace my eyes over sentences that take me 5 seconds longer than those without to read (allow my brain to process). It genuinely makes me feel like an idiot. Especially with how it affects my spelling. If not for spell check I wouldn't know what was wrong, because it would all look right. I know I'm not. I know I'm not only literate, but that my ability to have critical reading skills bumped me up a grade in school. So I know I'm smart, but the effort just to read a page and decipher each word is so fucking tiring. It expends a lot of energy to read. I get actual headaches.

I bought ATLA books and was so excited about them but I could only get so far before it became frustrating.

Yeah yeah I hear you "What about audio books gang," don't worry, I love and respect and kiss everyone of your little foreheads, but goddammit if it ain't frustrating to just want to read quickly.

[protego-et-servio]

Kids and Screens

I saw someone complaining about kids being on screens a lot and, honestly, I wonder how much these people realize that screens aren't an awful replacement for toys.

I'm not saying completely replace toys for screens, but screens aren't totally without imagination or socialization.

First off, many kids we see right now had to go through 2-3 years of online learning thanks to Covid. They also had to learn to socialize through online meeting and messenger apps.

I know, because my youngest is super extroverted. Covid was hard for them. They did - and still do - talk with friends over messengers or Zooms. They really enjoy playing Roblox and video chatting with friends.

Secondly, lots of apps inspire imagination. There's so many games that are basically digital dolls and in many cases they're more accessible for poorer kids. Like I had Barbies, but I only had a few outfits for them since they were expensive.

My kid has tons of apps with dolls and a mind-boggling assortment of clothes. They're always making up stories for the dolls and likes when they can make houses.

Thirdly, kids have access to other stuff than games on tablets and phones. Ebooks, audiobooks, drawing apps, writing apps. The Internet is literally at their fingertips and they have tons of resources to learn.

Yeah, we don't know the effects of kids growing up with screens as an innate part of their life AND there's definitely a need for balance. And there can be something said about corporations wanting to get kids hooked on electronics.

But

You don't know what a family's balance is from one snapshot of one day of their life.

As parents (from a US perspective, since that's my experience,) we are navigating plagues, climate change, political upheaval, growing class divide, public schools becoming defunded, economic inflation, daily shootings, and - if we or our children are of a marginalized group - targeted political attacks, and more.

Parents are tired and kids are getting such the shit-end of the stick in this world.

I'm not going to fault them for finding an escape in online games, media, writing, or digital art.

[eatsowhat]

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[the-practicalities-of-vampirism]

Alrighty so after a lot of thought and reflection on this project, I've decided I definitely want to continue it. However, the self-imposed pressure to continue this comic at the level of quality I established in the first installment has been a massive roadblock to actually doing, well, anything for it. I got carried away with the details and set an unrealistic precedent for myself.

With this in mind, I've decided I'm just going to let the art be less polished moving forward and just save the pretty detailed work for covers and extra art when I feel like it. I'll probably still be doing the bi-chromatic color scheme. I'm mostly just throwing detailed inking out the window.

Thank you so much for the support on the first two comics. I don't have an ETA on part 3 yet, but it's fully scripted and I've had the rough sketch outline sitting around for months.

With this newfound resolution to be kind to myself and acknowledge my own limits, I hope to have another installment out sooner, rather than later ♥︎

[pencil-urchin]

Time for a bath, some snacks, and the audiobook of Thrawn: Treason.

[sayitwithsarcophilus]

Is there a Tommy Wiseau or Ed Wood of videogames?  There are lots of notoriously bad game designers, but I’m not talking about people who make blatant asset flips or other kinds of dull, soulless Extruded Videogame Product.  I’m talking about people who seem to love the medium and have some kind of artistic vision in mind, their work is just... memorable for the wrong reasons.

[theglasschild]

Am I re-recording the audiobook of “Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself” for the 4th time yes I am 🙃 But this time I’m gonna nail it, I promise!

Here is a little excerpt from the book and a sneak-peak of what’s to come when this frikkin audiobook is finally done ready for you all to get lost in 🍸

[veggiesforpresident]

i... did not realize how much of a brain strain physically reading was until i didnt do it for a few weeks and then tried it again.

haha, oops.