Hello hello! This is not my nerd account (that would be @aranyaphoenix) this is my account for all things mental and spiritual. Fellow witches and psychologists (even if still undergrad) are all welcome to hang, and muggles, too! 🧙🏻♀️
The Pentagon just cut 180 faiths from its official recognition list. Wiccans, Pagans, Druids, Humanists — gone. The VA will still engrave your religion on your headstone. Apparently that's the only place it counts anymore.
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Having finger-tappy stim tendencies can be very rough sometimes, and I don't just mean from well-meaning people telling you to stop (DON'T TELL ME TO FUQING STOP, I LITERALLY CAN'T). Just a couple minutes ago, my fingers got the zoomies and they galloped so hard and fast on my desk that the muscles in the back of my wrist and forearm hurt, and when it got bad enough I could FINALLY stop. #AuDHD
NORMALIZE DIVERSE EXPRESSIONS AND STYLES OF SYMPATHY INSTEAD OF PROCLAIMING THAT ANYONE WHO DOESN'T DO IT THE "RIGHT" WAY IS MAKING IT ALL ABOUT THEMSELVES.
Pope Leo XIV and President Trump are trading jabs over the war in Iran. Leo says it's unjust. Trump says the pope is "weak."
It feels like a uniquely modern standoff – but popes and presidents (and kings, and emperors) have been squaring off for nearly a thousand years.
A few favorites we cover in our latest blog:
In 1077, Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV walked barefoot through a blizzard and stood outside a castle for three days waiting for Pope Gregory VII to lift his excommunication.
In 1809, Napoleon had Pope Pius VII arrested and held captive for five years. Pius still refused to fully submit. When Napoleon finally lost power, Pius went home a hero.
In 1979, Pope John Paul II told a crowd in Soviet-controlled Poland, "Do not be afraid." A decade later, the Iron Curtain was coming down.
The pope doesn't command armies, but history shows that moral authority has a way of outlasting the people who dismiss it.
So what do you think? Should religious leaders speak up when they disagree with world leaders, or is geopolitics outside their lane?
Some eye contact, generally, but very rarely in intimate situations. (Sometimes a blindfold kink isn't really a kink!)
Some social contact. A lot more online, a lot less in-person.
Zoning out and closing off in meltdowns.
Talk a lot.
I'm sliding all over that purple bar, man.
Good evening, #witchtwt! Remember to charge your New Moon water in the DAYTIME when the moon is ACTUALLY UP, unless you want to charge Void Water at night (which I do encourage)!
I heard a therapist say, “Your feelings are always valid, your behavior is not.” She explained by saying feel what you feel BUT you need to be accountable for what you do as a result of those feelings.
I want to talk about the women who are healing completely alone. No therapist. No support system that truly understands. No person in their physical life who has the capacity to hold the full weight of what they are carrying. Just them. Reading threads at midnight. Saving posts they will return to at 3AM. Building themselves back up using whatever they can find in the dark. If that is you I want you to know that what you are doing is one of the most extraordinary acts of self love I have