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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When someone you love is struggling mentally, do you trust professional care, community support, or your own instincts most, and why?”
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- nat...
The pressure to be thoughtful
It’s an interesting thing - this feeling that I need to post something thoughtful here. I’m feeling tension emerge in my abdomen. There’s a belief that there’s a right and a wrong way to engage in this community with no clarity on what is right or wrong.... - Philip...
Are We Ever Awake/Free/Thriving Enough To Not Practice?
Through the years, I’ve had periods in my life where I feel so overwhelmingly good that all my daily spiritual practices (yoga, meditation, prayer, Big Mind process, relatefulness, spiritual study, etc) fall to the wayside.... Today I reunited with my Jungian therapist after his two-month absence.
Today I reunited with the Jungian analyst, R., who I’ve been working with since October. The two-week absence that he had planned in mid-April stretched into six weeks when his spouse had a major medical event overseas.... - renee...
My therapist says...
if you have a disorder (I’d call this an undesired response + occurring regularly), don’t apply any strategies, any self-regulating methods to meet the stimulus. Don’t try to lower the fear. Any safety strategies will likely keep it in place.... - sness...
Hello! And a question on measuring the quality of a connection
Hi Uptrusters! Sara here, joining for the conversations (debates? connections? community?) and because I’ve been frothing to see the inside of this platform ever since Jordan told me about it 🤤.... - Sassiebrat67...
Angry, powerless, and sick
I was speaking to my hunny today about the situation this Country is in and how its affecting my every day life. I spend long nights up, researching different ways we the people can take back control from the govt, and I'm flailing.... - Fab...
We don't always have to feel connected with ourselves first to connect with others. Sometimes, I find myself in connecting with the other.
Waiting to feel a certain way to join others, like waiting to lose weight to start going to dances; or waiting to feel confident to make that call we dread; or waiting for "signs" to talk with your partner and tell them you've thinking about separating (you thinking about it IS... You're codependent but luckily codependency isn't bad
Picture it, two astronauts floating deep in space. Don't worry how they got here, just know that they're floating so close they can touch. Do you know how space works? If we're in space and I actually bump you or something bumps into me...we'll float...away...possibly forever.... - david...
Meaning Crisis, or Meaning of X, or ....
I spoke to a friend this past weekend who recently took the package from a federal agency, and is likely going to have trouble finding new employment.... - JulieI...
Shadows of personal growth culture: weaponized toolkits
I think everyone here has probably experienced weaponized NVC. What are some of the other things you see "weaponized" that annoy you? eg: Weaponized "Commitment to connection": there are bunch of versions of this: i can’t heal myself without you, my feelings are dependent on your... - annabeth...
How to do the basics when your life feels like a dumpster fire?
I’m working through some super deep shit in therapy right now. I found out that my dad is a diagnosed Covert Vulnerable Narcissist and I’m going back through all the memories in which I have him filed in my mind as a victim and looking through what I now know reality to be.... Owning activation while posting
A bottleneck I’m encountering is some belief that I shouldn’t post or respond when I’m triggered but there’s a lot of motility and I need to do something new.... - nat...
A Jhana rabbit hole
Someone on X/Twitter introduced me to a meditation retreat company called Jhourneys that focuses on helping people get into Jhana states. Apparently there are different stages of Jhana.... Only looking at roadblocks is self-defeating
I feel like friends including some here have been gesturing at this to me for years but I got "it" on a deeper level today in therapy. I was talking about how unhappy I am about my work lately. Therapist suggested what would be my ideal work like instead?... - nat...
A podcast about more joy
I’m entertaining the idea of rebooting my podcast and having a season of episodes that explore different ways of being that lead to experiencing more joy. I’m particularly interested in hearing about ways that people don’t often associate with feeling joy.... - fra...
I don’t fully understand what sexual attraction really is
In one occasion I was able to pierce through a feeling of arousal and I found a big wound from my childhood. Something totally non sexual. I wonder whether a lot of sexual attraction just points to unmet needs and is “designed” to help us meet those needs by bringing closer to... - Shera JoyCry...
Being With
What how do we explain relateful? How is it different than Authentic relating, circling and T Group? Back story, Circle Anywhere- Relateful have changed my life in ways -no other tools has ever come close... AND I CAN't ARTICULATE how and why!... - nat...
ooh, I love the idea of states like vitamins! Yeah, I’d love to learn too. There’s a guided meditation on YouTube to bring you into the first Jhana. I listened to it last night. It put me into a deep meditation but nothing blissful.... - nat...
I love this. This spoke to me: I don’t know who you are or what you need but I want to know and I’m committed to discovering at least until I die because I’m sure it’ll be novel and better than pretending you don’t exist....