ok not to be a tweet stealer but ranch dressing is only coded as declasse because it's American. If the french made an emulsion of oil, buttermilk, garlic, dill, mustard, chives, and parsley, y'all would pay 6 dollars for a side of it
Things the recovery industry will not tell you:
1. The drug worked. That is why people use it. Not weakness. Not moral failure.
A neurological event so complete and persuasive that any honest account of addiction has to start there.
The problem is not that the drug fails. The problem is that what it does is unrepeatable, and you will burn your entire life to the ground trying to get back to a place that no longer exists.
2. Shame is not guilt. Guilt says I did something bad. Shame says I am something bad. Guilt is appropriate. Shame is a cell with no windows. Most people use the words interchangeably. That mistake is lethal.
3. You cannot shame someone who has already named the thing you are holding over them. Say it first. Say it in plain light. The weapon drops.
4. Guilt can coexist with self-respect. Shame cannot. You can hold the damage and the dignity at the same time. I know because I live there.
5. Radical honesty does not give you back who you were. It hands you the clean slate of who you always wanted to be. The mask comes off. The cartoon other people drew of you stays on the page.
6. Nobody gets clean on a winning streak.
7. You have to be almost self-delusional in your forgiveness of yourself. (Go watch Chase Hughes)
8. The greatest sin was not the chaos. It was the absence. Being unavailable to the people who needed you.
9. Sustainable recovery starts with one thing: honesty with yourself. If you love an addict and want to help, that is the only door in.
10. I am only an expert on my recovery. Nobody is an expert on anyone else’s.
@HunterBiden Reading this on my lunch break from my job at a substance use recovery program; brought to tears. Silence = Death, so thank you for recovering loudly. Sharing this with everyone when I get back.
it's so important to remember that concerts with strict phone policies are the direct result of audience behavior. when artists ask you not to record nicely and you keep recording them against their request, they have to resort to stricter rules instead of an honor system.
What I find truly poetic about hippos being one of the deadliest animals on Earth is that they’re herbivores. Completely plant-based. They have no interest in eating you, they just genuinely seem to hate you on a personal level, and I respect that.
@hell_line0 The uterine lining is what the body is expelling while we're "bleeding", so there is blood in the mix, but that's not what's actually making up the majority of what we perceive as menstrual blood.
Tracy: Liz Lemon, you know the New York Knickerbockers are my favorite sports team named after stockings!
Liz: Yes but Tracy you can’t say Liz Lemon is a Knicker lover to the camera.
Tracy: But you love hosiery! And I love hoes!