got this game thinking it's gonna be like chill relax cozy thing. all dresses I make are ugly af. I am ragebaited constantly during the pattern cutting section. the storyline makes me feel like I'm a modiste in some bridgerton spin-off
it's glorious. the best game of the year
Look at these lovely graphs showing what happens when we help people out of their silly keto confusion and back into a more sensible lower carb state of mind.
If ever you needed a reason to ditch the keto/carni online fad, this is it.
shame is a RELATIONAL mechanism
it's meant to make you shrink, get humble, plead for mercy... so that the COMMUNITY sees that you recognize your mistake
and thus the community can offer you forgiveness, and reinclusion, and your body can feel safe again
but when you're caught in a chronic state of shame, then you're stuck in that shrunken paralysis with no mechanism to alleviate it
with chronic shame, no one can offer you forgiveness, except for... (you knew this was coming)... you.
you need to act out the community process on your own, within yourself - the ownership of the mistake, the recognition of what went wrong, and then... complete forgiveness. "don't do it again, but... you're alright"
your body needs to have the FELT experience of "I am accepted & forgiven & I belong again". you can give that to yourself. it's harder, but it's possible. it's what your body is waiting for - that's what it expects
For years, I felt like I was living as two different people.
There was the person everyone knew: Strong, confident, capable, courageous, and reliable.
Then there was the person nobody knew: Scared, ashamed, insecure, confused, and hurting.
I thought those two versions of me couldn't coexist. So I became really good at hiding one of them.
But healing taught me something important: I didn't need to destroy one version of myself. I needed to understand both.
The strong part of me helped me survive. The scared part of me was carrying pain. The angry part of me was trying to protect me. The part of me that wanted to shut down was trying to keep me from being overwhelmed.
Those parts weren't necessarily my enemies. They were adaptations.
And healing meant learning to listen to them instead of constantly fighting them.
You don't have to hate the parts of yourself that developed during survival. You can understand them. Thank them. And slowly teach them that you don't have to live in survival mode anymore.
Things I can say for free, your therapist can't. If you have the type of mind that can see every side of an argument, there's a good chance that you've been using that gift against yourself. The reason for that is that you can understand why you feel the way you feel while also understanding why you shouldn't. Feel that way you can see your own perspective and immediately argue against it. You can also understand someone else's behavior while still being hurt by what they did, so your brain starts ping ponging I'm allowed to be angry but I should understand them, I need to protect myself but I don't want to become hard, I want to leave but I still love them and you keep trying to decide which truth gets to win and this is where trialectical thinking needs to be turned inward. So instead of asking which feeling is real, you ask yourself what becomes true when I allow both to exist, that means you can love someone and still hold them accountable. You can be grateful for your past and still grieve what it cost you and you can forgive without reconciling. The third space is when you stop forcing yourself to pick a side. Inner peace doesn't always come from resolving. The contradiction comes when you realize that you were never required to choose between the parts of yourself that were both telling the truth. That is the third space. And sometimes that's exactly where you meet yourself.
Fibremaxxing with fruits and vegetables.
I increased my fibre by approx 15g a day and my triglycerides, Hba1C, fasting insulin and fasting glucose all fell.
Triglycerides - 50mg/dl
Fasting blood glucose - 72 mg/dl
Hba1C - 5.1%
Fasting insulin - 1.6 uIU/ml
Overall I’ve achieved these metabolic numbers with a diet that is:
Rich in fibre (with a fibre supplement)
Rich in unsaturated fats
Moderate to high protein
And I reduced my ApoB from 80 mg/dl to 50 mg/dl with a pcsk9 inhibitor
#metabolichealth
Imagine a man, consumed by the weight of his choices, pondering endlessly over paths not taken. He stands at the crossroads, yet each thought is a chain, binding him tighter to inaction.
Maybe the most romantic thing someone can give you isn't butterflies, it's certainty. Knowing a difficult conversation won't make them leave, their affection won't vanish with a bad mood, knowing you don't have to perform to be loved.
Putrajaya has asked Malaysia Airlines and Batik Air whether they could absorb AirAsia’s domestic market share as part of contingency planning amid concerns over the low-cost carrier's finances, Reuters reports.
Discussions between MAHB and the government have intensified in recent weeks, with other options including possible government support for AirAsia's plans to raise fresh capital.
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- You're staying mostly because you're scared of losing them. - You're waiting for them to become someone they haven't shown you they can be. - You don't actually like the relationship as it is, you just love its potential. Ask yourself: "If I knew this person would never change, would I still choose this relationship?" That answer can tell you a lot. Should you block them, ghost them, or talk it out?
At the core of C-PTSD is shame, a deep-seated belief that one is fundamentally flawed, unworthy, or broken due to chronic trauma, especially in relationships where trust and safety were repeatedly violated.
I started Repatha today. I was taking ezetimibe and pitavastatin but I wanted to try Repatha instead instead of daily pills.
As a lipidologist I do want to practice what I preach in that lower LDL-C/apoB over the course of your life is better for CVD prevention.
Favourite thing about my podcast is getting scientists on that are not on the podcast circuit. To give them a platform outside of an academic setting.
This weeks episode with Professor Aleksander Krag is a great example of this.
Liver Specialist: How to Detect & Reverse Fatty Liver Disease Before It’s Too Late | Aleksander Krag
https://t.co/FkWrBY5ijz
Honestly feels like I’m watching the final stages of KKM’s destruction happen right before my eyes.
Doctors are dwindling. Scans take up to 6 months. Clinic waiting times are 4–6 hours.
It won't be much longer til the final nail comes, and service will start shutting down.
For years, it probably looked like I just had a negative attitude.
I was always expecting the worst to happen. I could find something to worry about in almost any situation.
For a long time, I believed that was just who I was.
I felt broken.
I thought I was simply a negative person who needed to change.
It wasn't until I began my healing journey again, almost 20 years later, that I started looking at myself differently.
Instead of asking, “What's wrong with me?”
I started asking, “How might what I experienced have influenced the way I think and respond?”
What if my tendency to expect the worst wasn't proof that I was broken?
What if my brain and nervous system had learned to look for danger?
Education and curiosity began to change the way I saw myself.
I stopped judging every response and started trying to understand it.
And sometimes, understanding yourself is where healing begins.
My personal truth as a clinical psychologist, for today (September 13, 2026): People cling to the familiar, even when it hurts. Predictability can feel safer than freedom.
We stay in bad relationships. Keep jobs we dread. Repeat family patterns we swore we’d escape. Tell ourselves the same old story about who we are.
Why? Because sometimes a familiar pain feels safer than an uncertain future.
The unknown may offer something better. But first, we have to give up the strange comfort of knowing exactly what hurts.