Wicked Aphro

Disclaimer: filtered selfies and padded bra, otherwise as real as it gets. Slightly damaged but functioning adequately.

[Wicked Aphro @alternyaaphro]

I won 2022.
Best year end message EVER!
🎉🥳😘❤️😍#Kiddo⭐

[Wicked Aphro @alternyaaphro]

I'd been using my stress ball the wrong way then my dog set me right.

[Wicked Aphro @alternyaaphro]

Hae!
🏍️🛣️🌄⛺🥾

[Wicked Aphro @alternyaaphro]

Jadi inget Mulan 😭 @notyouradvisor

[Cats with aura @Catsworldtweet]

I adopted a black kitten this morning, he hasn't stopped doing this all day

[Wicked Aphro @alternyaaphro]

Beli ini, @notyouradvisor

[ruri @ruparipi_]

GEMES BANGETT

masker kucing yang cocok buat mancing atau motoran 😭👌

[H.Quant @h_quant]

Happy Birthday to my favorite big girl, Raven 💝 she's turning 10 today! Here's hoping for many more 🥂❤️

[jurnalsibapak @fajrek1]

"Suami yang HP-nya lebih penting dari cerita istrinya sedang membangun tembok batu bata per batu bata. Dan waktu tembok itu udah setinggi plafon, yang keluar dari baliknya cuma satu kata: 'Terserah.'"

[Fu'ad @Meggy_Zord]

@alternyaaphro Hemat adalah harga mati, mom Aphro ya. 🤣

[Wicked Aphro @alternyaaphro]

Can relate ☝️

[Fu'ad @Meggy_Zord]

Picky eater banget, pokoknya kalau makannya gak di bawah 15 ribu, gak mau makan. 😤

Eh,.....🤣

[Wicked Aphro @alternyaaphro]

@h_quant Inspector Gadget! 😍

[Wicked Aphro @alternyaaphro]

Yep.
#Conan

[Om @betterrcallom]

i think we should bring back the concept of waking up on weekends and watching cartoons first thing in the morning.

[Runni. @Runnilune]

Apalagi saat nemu seseorang yg membuat bbrp jam terasa spt beberapa menit.

Percakapan yg tidak menguras energi, tdk terasa spt usaha. Kita hanya berbicara, lalu sadar waktu terlewat jauh lebih cepat dari yg diinginkan.

Di momen itu, rasanya ingin mencuri sedikit waktu tambahan.

[BapakBahagia @sinyonamaqu]

Pengingat buat bapak-bapak.

Kalau istri curhat, ga usah buru-buru jadi problem solver 😅

Kadang dia tidak minta solusi dulu.

Dia cuma butuh didengarin, dipahami,
dan ditemani.

Kita sering salah paham. Istri buka cerita,
kita langsung nyari SOP penyelesaian masalah 😄

Mungkin cukup 1 kalimat:

“Iya, aku dengerin.”

Bukan begitu wahai para wanita dan ibu-ibu sejagad X?

[Asma @Elaa_ampe5]

Marriage doesn’t usually fall apart because love disappears. It falls apart when one person starts feeling emotionally alone beside the person they once trusted with their whole heart. The most painful part isn’t the arguments or the hard times, it’s having to beg for understanding, affection, or emotional safety from someone who once promised to protect your heart. Sometimes two people stay married for years, sharing the same home, the same bed, the same life… yet deep inside, one of them feels completely unseen, unheard, and unloved. And honestly, there’s nothing lonelier than feeling disconnected while lying next to the person you chose forever.

[Wicked Aphro @alternyaaphro]

Damn this resonates with me.

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

one of the most dangerous addictions is becoming addicted to coping with a life you know you need to change. yes, i said it.

you distract yourself, numb yourself and convince yourself that surviving is same as living.

days become months, months become years & before you know it;

you have spent your life managing the symptoms instead of fixing the cause... at some point, healing requires action cos the life you want will never be found in your coping mechanisms, it will be found on the other side of the decision you keep avoiding.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A young Harvard medical school graduate spent nearly three years stuck in his parents' house, having panic attacks and hallucinations. One evening at twilight, walking into a dressing room, he was hit by what he later called "a horrible fear of my own existence." His name was William James. The diary entry he wrote on April 30, 1870 became the foundation of modern psychology.

The line was this: "My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will." He was 28. He'd given up. So he made one decision: stop waiting to feel okay before doing things. He would do them first, and let the feelings catch up whenever they could.

He spent the next twenty years turning that one diary line into a science. His 1890 textbook landed on a simple split: the things you do are under your direct control, but the things you feel are not. You can decide to swing your legs out of bed and walk to the kitchen. The mood that hits you while you're walking, you can't dial. So you work the part you can work. The feeling side shows up on its own clock, when it's ready and not before.

Brain scanners caught up about a century later. There's a network in your head that switches on the moment you stop paying attention to anything specific. It's the voice that drags you back to something dumb you said in 2014. In depressed brains, this network is overactive. It runs in loops. It will not let go of the negative track about you. The second you start doing something that actually needs your attention, the loop quiets and a different network takes over. Action is the off switch.

In 2016, The Lancet published a trial called COBRA. Researchers took 440 adults with depression and split them in half. One group got CBT, the gold-standard talking therapy where you work on your thinking patterns. The other group got something simpler, basically James's idea written into a treatment plan: pick small activities each week, schedule them, do them, see what happens to your mood. A year later, both groups had improved by the same amount. The simpler version also cost about 20% less to deliver, because junior workers can run it. Five days of training is enough.

In 2024, a research team pulled 218 studies together, covering 14,170 depressed people. Walking and jogging produced a real drop in depression scores. Yoga, same drop. Weights, same drop. The authors' verdict: exercise belongs alongside therapy and medication as one of the main treatments for depression.

So that's the answer William James worked out from his own three years in hell in 1870, and that 14,000+ people in clinical trials have confirmed since. Action. Walk somewhere. Pick something heavy up and put it down. Show up at yoga. Schedule one small task and finish it. Any of these works, and they work for the same reason. You move, and the feeling follows.

[Wicked Aphro @alternyaaphro]

Segara.

[Wicked Aphro @alternyaaphro]

Yes 😭

[Jejak Rasa @jejakrasa27]

Kadang kita tuh bukan males. Cuma terlalu takut hasilnya jelek.
Takut gak sesuai ekspektasi. Takut dibandingin. Takut keliatan gak sepinter orang lain. Akhirnya kebanyakan mikir, tapi gak mulai-mulai.

Aku ngalamin sendiri. Banyak hal yang sebenernya pengen aku jalanin, tapi ketahan cuma karena pengen semuanya langsung bagus dari awal.

[Wicked Aphro @alternyaaphro]

Yes 😭

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

no one really talks about how strange it feels to watch your own potential sit there untouched while you're just trying to get through the day. like you know what you could be doing, you can see it clearly in your head, but somehow your mind and situation just don't meet you there. and the gap between "who you are" and "who you could've been" starts to feel louder than anything else. and people don't see that part. they just see what didn't happen, what wasn't finished, what you "gave up on." but they don't see how heavy it felt just to keep going normally, let alone chase anything more. so you end up grieving a version of yourself that isn't gone because you failed... but because you've been trying to make it through.

[Jejak Rasa @jejakrasa27]

Ada reels lewat bilang gini, "Kata Bapak, jika kamu belum bisa bersih-bersih rumah jangan nikah dulu.
Siapapun wanitamu kelak dia gak butuh pangeran, mereka nyari pasangan bukan beban. Jangan limpahkah seluruh tugas domestik sama dia semua.
Kamu tinggal satu atap berdua, bukan tidur di hotel dan dia pelayannya. Maka tanggung jawab bersama."

Aku gak tersinggung sama sekali, justru setuju sih. Tapi kalau lihat kolom komentarnya, masih banyak ternyata laki-laki di luar sana yang gak terima.

[Wicked Aphro @alternyaaphro]

Permisi bang 🙏🐈