Beanz

You know why people get irate when they don’t understand? It’s usually because the information is being given in a condescending tone. Maybe ask yourself before replying to someone “are they GENUINELY asking, or are they just being a dick” Tune in next Monday on “HOW TO COMMUNICATE”

Might as well just keep to myself because I clearly don’t understand anything and am nothing but an idiot. Thank you internet stranger 🖕🏻

PSA 👇

With PTSD, the most idiotic things ( left on “read” for example) could be a trigger for a person. If someone openly mentions that what you are doing is a trigger, please stop doing it. We are saying that because we know our dark side, and have to bring ourselves out of it, you don’t have to.

Some needs this hammered home. SIGH

Get it now?

One thing that I wish people could have explained better was the “triggers don’t go away, they become easier to handle” part of healing. It is a struggle when you’re trying to finish the job and the state of “home” is going into worse shape and deeper into the triggering actions than the OG trauma

"Why are spiders so smart?" "They can find everything on the web."

“We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.” - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Just been re-watching mythbusters (it’s a comfort show for me) and the Newtons Cradle experiment with the wrecking balls, there was a flaw in the design of the experiment set up. The wrecking balls were being held by a singular point, in a newtons cradle… the swinging balls are held by two points.

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

You are not helpless. You've been conditioned to believe you are helpless in response to triggers-- but that programming was laid down by bullies & abusers, possibly including people who said they "love" you, who don't really know you or want to see you succeed.

This 🤨

This has always been confusing for me. As a society… if someone claims themself to be a bad person, we try out hardest to convince them that they aren’t, yet if someone has relatively decent self image and confidence, society tries its hardest to tear that person down with comparisons?

"Suck it up" is not a recovery strategy.

It is not "whiny" or "entitled" to acknowledge the impact of neglect. Our reluctance to acknowledge how much neglect harmed us is, ironically, often a symptom of neglect.

A nervous system that has been shaped by the necessity of playing defense for years against the most powerful people in your life, isn't going to be open to superficial declarations that "you're safe now." The feeling & reality of safety is going to require time-- & tests.

Friendly reminder to all of my artists people on here, newspapers still print comics… use that how you will.

Let’s fucking go ✊🏻

Maybe this chapter of your life is about developing patience w/ & compassion for parts of yourself that you were conditioned to deny & disown-- & maybe you don't owe anybody any apologies for prioritizing your own safety & stability for once.

#ProudBlue Good morning, BlueSky friends. I’m going to be on the lookout for glimmers today! Who’s with me?

You working your recovery every day w/ authenticity & self-compassion adds something to the world that your bullies & abusers never could. You staying alive & working your recovery positively impacts people you don't know in ways you don't know. That's real.

"For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?" -Thomas More

"They" are counting on freaking you out so badly that you cannot work your recovery or show up to help shape the world in ways you care about. Disappoint them. Work your recovery. Show up-- for your parts inside, & for your passions & causes out in the world.

Over 100,000 seats are up for grabs in 2025 — governors, mayors, city councils, state representatives, judges, school boards, and more. Taking back our power starts now.

When Humanity takes over... We have hope. We are NOT going back.

Even if someone has a legit diagnosis of bipolar, schizophrenia, or another condition that seriously impacts how they experience the world-- that makes them MORE likely to have CPTSD, not less. MORE in need of trauma recovery support & resources, not "just" meds & hospitals.