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[Camus @newstart_2024]

Erling Haaland has a sauna, steam room, and ice bath at home.

He does it almost every day, great for leg recovery and mental strength.

But he’s cautious: “Ice bath is a stressful thing. If you have a lot of stress in your life, adding more stress might not be good.”

It’s really individual, pros and cons for each person.

Cold exposure activates brown fat and increases norepinephrine for alertness and recovery, while sauna use boosts heat shock proteins and improves cardiovascular health, but both can elevate cortisol if overdone in stressed individuals.

A balanced take from a world-class athlete.

[Brian Maierhofer @brianmaierhofer]

Your nervous system dictates how much of reality you're allowed to experience. It's your filter for life's opportunities. When in fight or flight, your attention is narrow, rigid, and hyperfocused. You can only 'see' what's delegated by your threat response—your awareness cuts off everything that isn't 'useful.' In regulation, that filter goes wide, open, and dissolved. Your energy is no longer allocated for threat or task, so you're literally taking in more data. The opportunities you're able to recognize in your life are determined by the state of your nervous system.

[𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐘 @X_Bill_Gl]

There is a documented phenomenon in
CPTSD research called "betrayal trauma theory," developed by psychologist Jennifer Freyd. It proposes that trauma caused by people on whom the victim depends for survival produces a specific kind of cognitive adaptation. The child cannot afford to know what is being done to them because knowing would threaten the attachment they require to survive. So the knowing gets blocked. Not as a choice. As a survival mechanism.
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[Aristo @aristomarinetti]

“You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

A child loves their parents so sincerely from the moment they’re born.

Every time I think about that, I’m amazed by how many years of effort it must take to fill their head with enough hurt, fear, or disappointment for them to stop loving you.

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

The more you know about the UK rape gang coverup, the more alarming it becomes. It is the ultimate wake up call about the state of the West.

[Shadows of Control @shadows_control]

For a long time, I convinced myself that what I was enduring inside my marriage was just what relationships were like.

I told myself that all relationships are hard. That love takes effort. That discomfort is part of it, and that you just push through the difficult parts.

But abuse often hides behind those ideas.

Relationships are not meant to leave you feeling small, anxious, on edge, or constantly second guessing yourself. They are not meant to make you feel confused, controlled, or as though you are slowly losing sense of who you are.

Struggle, challenges, stress, conflict, difficult periods all happen in healthy relationships.

But control, diminishment, manipulation, and feeling like you have to walk on eggshells are not relationship challenges. And they are not just “the hard work of love”. They are warning signs.

#DomesticAbuseAwareness #CoerciveControl

[Adam Lane Smith | The Attachment Specialist @AdamLaneSmith]

Young men: If you choose the wrong woman you are sacrificing your goals for a life spent managing her problems that she refuses to fix.

The right woman will augment your life goals. She'll be a jet engine strapped to your back that pushes you ahead even faster.

Choose wisely.

[CPTSD Foundation @cptsdfoundation]

Our recovery as survivors is aided by forming healthy relationships with safe people in an environment where we can find the words where words were absent before. As a result, we can (sometimes for the very first time) share our deepest feelings with another human being.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Grass sledding on the Grassland in Inner Mongolia

[SMX 🇺🇸 @iam_smx]

“My children didn’t choose to be born, I chose to have children. They owe me nothing, I owe them everything”

-Elon Musk

[CPTSD Foundation @cptsdfoundation]

Suppressing trauma, trying to forget it, or trying to move on without processing it does not lead to healing. It makes it worse in the long term.

And healing doesn't have to look magical or pretty. Recovery is hard, exhausting, and draining. So let yourself go through it. and

[Taylor Sterling @FatherMcKennaa]

Eight people at a dinner party snorted lines of pure LSD thinking it was cocaine.

260 to 2,100 doses each. Five went comatose. Three stopped breathing.

All eight walked out of the hospital within 48 hours.

Heroin kills at 6x a normal dose. These people took 2,000x and lived.

The scheduling system was never about danger.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

A man who studies his own patterns with brutal honesty eventually becomes harder to manipulate, because once he understands where he typically bends, panics, or seeks comfort, he can anticipate his own weaknesses and close the gaps before someone else exploits them.

[Oliver Prompts @oliviscusAI]

🚨 BREAKING: Someone just open-sourced software that sees you through walls using only WIFI signals.

it’s called WiFi-DensePose. It maps your exact body pose in real-time. no cameras. no sensors. just your living room router.

100% Open Source.

[Living with Trauma & Dissociation @RhiaCrewe]

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[Jerry Wise MA, MS, CLC @jerrytwise]

When you grew up with conditional love from narcissistic parents, you carry that into every relationship. Love starts to feel like something you perform for, not something you deserve.

👉 Join my FREE Training. Link in Bio!

[Essential Mastery @EssentialMastry]

“If you're going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh, or they will kill you.”

- Oscar Wilde

[Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @DrDoyleSays]

CPTSD is not a "mental illness." CPTSD an injury to our nervous & endocrine systems. CPTSD increases our vulnerability to physical pain & illness. CPTSD makes our relationships complicated in ways we do not choose or want. No one "chooses" CPTSD. CPTSD is NOT due to "victim mindset." Survivors do not identify as having CPTSD because it is "trendy."

And: CPTSD is NOT the ultimate destiny of ANYONE reading this.