Rage and autoimmune disease: is there a link between suppressed anger and the women’s health crisis?

In the midst of a women’s health crisis, could bottled rage be the source of what ails us?
According to a 2020 study, autoimmune diseases disproportionately affect women – accounting for nearly 80 per cent of cases. A separate study from 2021…Read More

Experts in post-traumatic growth say devastating events can make you stronger.
At 16, my nephew Kent—a funny, hard-working Indiana farm kid—was taken by a wildfire-fast leukemia. The cancer spread with such ferocity, he died within 24 hours of being diagnosed, and probably, the doctors speculated, mere months from the time it took hold. In tho…Read More

Nat Geo: You really can recover from a painful experience—and be better than before

It’s called post-traumatic growth. Scientists explain the keys to achieving it.
Erica Solove remembers December 30, 2021, like it was yesterday. She was at home in Superior, Colorado, a Boulder suburb at the foot of the Rockies. “It was an extremely windy day…Read More

PREVENTING PTSD:

“You can transform trauma into strength; Here’s how experts say it’s done”

From Oprah

Another paywalled article! Word doc available here.

PREVENTING PTSD:

Nat Geo: “You really can recover from a painful experience—and be better than before”

Protected by paywall, so here’s a Word Doc version

Study links anomalous experiences to subconscious connectedness and other psychological traits

(AKA greater access to SUBC? Greater likelihood of subjective magickal experience)

All that work “being quietly with yourself”? Creates some sorta feedback loop. Real or perceptual?

Check it out…Read More

Hey Gang!

This is the group I’m extra here for.

How do you walk the line between woo and reality?

PS – a ghost/hedgefrog watercolor fyw

MFJESS

NEWWWWWW PODCAST IS OUTTTT!

Okay, to be fair right now it’s a preview of episodes that will probably be released at TMFRs this month – but I’m using THAT platform to ease people into THIS new format and ‘cast. ✨ (still confused? Yeah, me too, but you’ll see)

Let the integration begin.

Looking for the podcast?
– You want to go to…Read More

Moving my guitar practice from living room to outdoors, slowly but surely. Scoped out some good spots for playing at my favorite urban park a few days ago. The geese seemed to enjoy it!
I started playing a little over 5 years ago, in my mid-fifties. Music has become and remains a vital medicine for me. I have some equipment arriving soon to…Read More

Went to the end of the world. Fucking epic. Amazing who and what you can be when you remove EVERYTHING else.

(Well you did say add media, @tmfrs

I’ll reply!

My therapist told me, about my relationship, “This is mutually abusive.”

I think I had SUB-C ticklings before that. But I didn’t feel I could be abusive “if I didn’t mean to.”

When I got out of the relationship and started having autonomy I realized how abusive my codependent relationship had been on my part. Down the road,…Read More

How did the realization come to you?
Did you have suspicions beforehand?
What was the final “aha” moment?
How did you respond to the new self-awareness?

Let’s see what’s up with this posty thing!