Before walking: Man, I've got so much to do. Maybe I should skip the walk.
After walking: Holy shit. I've just come up with a major solution to a problem I've been dealing with, my energy is through the roof, and my brain feels like it's exploding with ideas.
Internal Family Systems is a treatment offered by tens of thousands of therapists, endorsed by Gwyneth Paltrow and Elizabeth Gilbert, and widely embraced on social media. Some patients say it’s destroyed their lives. https://t.co/4YdAbbN5m9
Having done long distance during both dating and marriage: yes!
But I think you need
• regular in-person visits
• agreed-upon communication methods and ways to show love
• a light at the end of the tunnel; it needs to be a temporary state you’re working toward ending
A good time to remind everyone that The Sims 1 originally came with a list of recommend reading, so don't even THINK about loading into Create-a-Sim until you've read Notes on the Synthesis of Form by Christopher W. Alexander
The best thing for my mental health was stopping my instinct toward judgement. The less I passed judgement on others the less I feared they were doing the same to me. My general paranoia went way down as a result. This sucks because passing judgement on other is extremely fun.
The internet is rotting and what goes online is not necessarily forever.
Already more than a third of webpages from 2013 cannot be accessed, and with archives disappearing, mountains of content will be completely lost.
As someone who very much does want a village and indeed has it (I currently have 4 neighborhood kids under 6 at my house joining us for dinner. Part of a baby swapping system I started in 2021), after having pretty painstakingly built it over years, I want to make two points...