I ate out every meal, had chocolate croissants for breakfast, and chain smoked every day in Europe and somehow lost 10lbs so the whole “American food is poison” narrative might have some legs.
a thread of why taylor swift is actually brilliant:
in "the archer" (which is about anxiety) she makes the whole song sound like the beat is about to drop....but it never does.
because that's what anxiety feels like.
Loving this latest @callherdaddy episode and no hate at all but someone please get Tay some media training to stop saying like so much! She seems so sweet and I want to listen to her podcast but the likes are driving me away, without that she would be unstoppable❤️ #CallHerDaddy
Latest reports on #whaling protests in Iceland. 2 women have climbed the masts of the whaling ship and are refusing pleas by the police to come down. https://t.co/tsBN7F3C1I
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 🙏
@blogTO They didnt even open on the Friday when it was supposed too, said they would give refunds and then charged a second time instead. Complete mess
Toronto has gone completely fecking mad
We're moving out of our apartment next month. We currently pay $1870 per month for a one-bedroom, one-bathroom 683 ft² space.
It's just been relisted for $2900 per month. That's a 55% increase in less than 2 years.