This is how people die from sepsis in the hospital

You letting somebody who’s shown they don’t give a fuck about your comfort root around inside you? Not if you’re smart.

Instead of asking why folks are so overwhelmingly scared of certain professionals, we should be asking why that profession insists on traumatizing people.

From the same place that makes people routinely skip most preventative medicine providers, including gynos. From terrible callous doctors who want to dig around inside your body, unnecessarily skimp on pain management, and ignore you when you say you’re in pain.

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And I’m speaking as a somatic trauma therapist

A *major* part of healing is connecting with your inner child

And once you truly start that work, it makes you look at children, childhood, and how society treats children a whole new way

Everyone isn’t meant to directly raise kids

But children are our collective responsibility

Doing our parts to make sure they are physically & psych healthy and fulfilled helps us all

And directly & indirectly supporting them reminds us of what we needed and still need

You can’t hate kids and love your whole self

You have an inner child that needs to be nurtured to this day

And someone who hates kids (and hating “childish” things) is very likely neglecting themselves and/or is being/has been neglected on some level

Y’all heard that second one? That’s why we keep telling y’all not to let COVID run through your body like Lara Croft. Anything that affects your vascular system affects your brain!

1)So many millennials are lunchables growing up…

2) Again, kids are not being protected. Not from airborne viruses, unclean water, lead, microplastics, climate change, child abuse systemically & interpersonally, etc

It’s not as cut and dry as “this new gen is so bad”

Please stop teaching STEM without the humanities.

and will argue about it, instead of being like “this is where I choose to be outside my values.”

if you think consumption is how you demonstrate your values, then you’re going to flip your shit when someone inquires about your consumption being tied to awful shit.

here’s the challenge for many people: they cannot emotionally handle digging into this kind of info because it would shift the landscape of their entire lives. they would have to confront their values (or lack thereof). “too much work” to interrogate.

For the “Tr*mp gave us free money” crowd…

How was filing your taxes this year? 🙃

When you start to feel that big chunks of the population shouldn't exist in public? That's bigotry & we usually class it racism, eugenics, homophobia, transphobia, ageism, ableism etc. Because those are correct ways to describe the feelings that lead to terrible policy

Beautiful example of somatic therapy! When therapists ask “where do you feel it in your body?” this is where we’re going…

Muting/Blocking = Self Care I see this a lot with especially neurodivergent folks like me who were taught to hate ourselves. Some adults get mad seeing their kids be so free bc they were never able to be and seem to want to stomp it out. It makes them uncomfortable so they react with anger

Bringing somatic work into this (b/c I’m a somatic therapist), who benefits from our nervous systems being in a such a survival state that we routinely shutdown (physically, psychologically etc)?

Who benefits from us being so tired and/or stuck we struggle to think differently?

The right to comfort as a tenet of white supremacy is so real & so dangerous

It harms us on so many levels

People’s discomfort with living in a global pandemic b/c they want to return to “normal” to the point of not wanting to learn the systemic lessons to get us out of this…

Yes we can’t heal from a trauma until it’s over. That doesn’t mean do nothing, hoping this all ends soon

This trauma won’t end without active efforts. And the gov doesn’t want to end this for us or they wouldn’t be gaslighting

We need to face the reality of this to move forward