Tag: orienting response
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I DID A THING
come out god, fight me, you coward (wait a sec nevermind I saw a bird)
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CURSED
snot zone
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UNDER THE SEA
I got a waterproof camera and I didn’t drop it to the bottom of the bottomless pit. Huzzah.
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LOOP
i’m happy sad, cptsd sucks, trauma is a flat circle
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NOPE
Well, this isn’t what I wanted. I’m grumpy and I don’t really want to go on about it, but it’s still related to unequal workload at home. And mental health challenges for both parents. And general frustration. I felt my frustration. It’s there for a reason. But on with what was GOOD today: I also…
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GO PLAY OUTSIDE, DAMMIT
Look, I was feeling really good. REALLY good. The weather is gorgeous, I had a good swim, I was getting stuff done. And then I ran into the unequal workload in our house. Again. And I got angry. But that’s going to keep happening. My husband has no energy, and he can’t feel his feelings.…
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I SPENT TWO AND A HALF HOURS IN AN ENCHANTED FOREST AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY SUNBURN
Man, trying to outsmart the willpower paradox is hard! I’m trying to not try, man, I’m trying to not try to try as hard as I can! So I went to a different forest today. NOT the quarry, just to shake things up, do something a bit different. I decided that climbing a waterfall might…
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WHEN IT’S TIME TO PARTY WE WILL PARTY HARD
Last night I wrote some stuff about what happened this year. I didn’t publish it, but it was organised into a sort of timeline, so it helped me figure out some things. It made it clear when I first started to feel like I had to fix my trauma, urgently, or there’d be serious consequences.…
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FRIST PSOT
I’m considering writing some stuff about the stuff, because there’s a bunch of stuff inside of me and I really need to get that stuff outside of me. But first, a little training for my orienting response, as well as an attempt to identify some signs I’m recovering: I’ve been finding everything too hard for…