Mare Parker-OToole

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[🎄🏚️😽Kingdom of mercy @Yara_and_cats]

🫂🙏🏻🥺💔Can you help me spread my posts on X and Instagram widely, my friends? Please stand by my side and do not leave me.🆘️🥀🔄⬇️
https://t.co/9iuYEIoXWL

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

The reason why she is missing 40 minutes a day

[📔 Kelly 📔 @kellywellread]

It's getting really cold again tonight and I have this crazy urge to go absolutely nowhere & do nothing at all whatsoever. My life is pretty wild, man. ✌️

[Nikki Reale @RealeNikki]

@VoteGloriaJ

[Mare Parker-OToole @marethemaker]

@Titmousie2 Yum. Very pretty :)

[Thia is with … 😏✌️💋🔥 @ThiaBallerina]

‘Joe Biden's energy security advisor is visiting Israel to discuss potential economic revitalization plans for Gaza centered around undeveloped offshore natural gas fields.’

This. Was. Never. About. The. Hostages.

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

Danica Roem's race is being called, and she will become Virginia's first transgender Senator!

She was in a very hard fought race, where hecklers openly shouted transphobic slurs at her in town halls.

Anti-trans politics does not win elections.

Congratulations, Senator Roem!

[🎄🏚️😽Kingdom of mercy @Yara_and_cats]

🫂🙍🏻‍♀️Hello my friends thanks for your help🥀My brother every day he continues to put up cat food stations on the streets during the day so the cats can eat💔before nightfall The war continues and the situation is very dangerous I hope the🚀war ends😥

[The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) @brainpickings]

"I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness."

Rebecca Solnit's wonderful manifesto for wanderlust https://t.co/cXgPx7Z7uM

[Dog Lovers @DogLovers03]

"I had this gentleman come by, today, to pick his puppy out. I noticed his hat right away. After he picked his pup, I asked him, directly, if he was over "there." After listening to him tell me about his experience with an IED and the stroke it caused him, at 25 years old, he told me he'd be back in a few weeks to pick the pup up and he'd bring the rest of the money.
My response...?....? "You don't owe me anything!" I do believe he's paid enough already. Much respect to him and all who have served or are currently serving, from all of us at SOS Kennels. There's not enough thanks!" ❤️
Source: SOS Kennels

[Lisa Wellwood Artist @studio22artz]

Sold another calendar & a pack of wildlife cards today which was nice. It may not sound like much, but every sale is so precious. I don’t get loads of sales & reach has just got so poor on here. I’ve updated my website to show my works. Grateful of any shares. Thank you. X

[Mare Parker-OToole @marethemaker]

@ANNELAMOTT @KathaPollitt What about energy neither being created nor destroyed

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

THIS IS GOING VIRAL SO I WANTED TO SHARE IT HERE TOO:

A bit from my past:

My first job after getting my PhD was working as a therapist for people from low socioeconomic backgrounds.

Almost all of them were diagnosed with depression, GAD, bipolar, or BPD. Most were highly medicated— some to a point that still sticks with me years later.

As I got to know their background and lives 3 things were very clear:

1. A vast majority had been emotionally neglected, emotionally abused, or physically abused as children.

2. A vast majority had experienced domestic violence or were currently living in it.

3. Basic needs were never met. Life was an hour by hour struggle. Treatment was an attempt to allow them to get to work in most cases. To just continue to surviving.

It was the start of me questioning the field I had been trained in. One that diagnoses people with disorders without taking a look at the whole picture. It began my path of holistic understanding.

A person cannot be well when one unexpected bill will have them fall behind on rent. When they lay their head on a pillow and all they can think about is expenses piling up. When a bill at the grocery store is almost double what they paid last year when their income has stayed the same.

An entire family unit deeply struggles within survival mode. When a job is lost. When daycare needs to be paid, but so does the light bill— what do you choose? When parents can’t even think about the emotional needs of their children because they have to figure out where their next meal is going to come from.

In 1942, 10 years before the diagnostic manual of mental illness was released Maslow knew what was once just common sense: we have a hierarchy of needs.

At the bottom are basic needs food and shelter. Then safety (resources, security). Then belonging (connection, friendship, intimacy.) Without three things we *will* be sick, period.

I get pushback for questioning the status quo. And I’ll continue to do it. The status quo is keeping people sick. It denies their experience. And it says we should bandage people’s symptoms so they can return to the environment that made them sick.

May we wake up, heal ourselves, and build conscious communities to help each other.

Retweet if you feel this is true in your body 🙏

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

On March 23, 1966, in an accident that is now known as the Palomares incident, a B-52 bomber carrying four hydrogen bombs collided with a refueling tanker in Spain, and one of its nuclear weapons dropped into the sea.

As a U.S. Navy salvage team worked to recover the bomb, the towing line broke, sending a heavy steel pipe shooting toward the team — and in an incredible act of heroism, diver Carl Brashear threw himself in front of his men, taking the pipe in the leg.⁠

Brashear not only survived, but he overcame extraordinary obstacles to get himself recertified as a master diver even though his leg had been removed, making him the first amputee diver in Navy history. Brashear was motivated by his beliefs that "It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down" and "I ain't going to let nobody steal my dream."

For his service in helping to retrieve the bomb, Brashear was later awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, the highest navy award for non-combat heroism.

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

I love my President and his beautiful wife.
❤️ and Repost if you do too!

[Leaving Libraryland @CircdeskCircus]

Ok I can announce now: I am leaving my solid librarian position, mostly because of a very difficult and unworkable supervisor situation, crappy admin and lack of normal life schedule flexibility. I have oh so many ideas and opinions but I am taking them elsewhere! #librarylife 🧵

[LazyFit @TheLazyFit]

No time for the gym? No problem! 💪🏠
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