drugs, medical

"PSA: if you smoke marijuana, please tell your anesthesia team

they're not going to rat you out. they're going to adjust your anesthesia dosage so you dont WAKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF SURGERY"

socialization, relationships, trauma

"i want to learn your past not to judge you, but to understand how you need to be loved"

boundaries, growth

"you are allowed to change the price of what it costs to access you"

self compassion, mental health, growth

"please make sure that wherever you're at in life, you dont treat it like a transitory period. dont waste your college years wishing to be already graduated and have a job. dont waste your single years wishing for someone to be in love with. if/when those things come, they will come in due time and they will be good. but there is nothing like looking back and feeling empty because you wasted literal years ignoring what you had because you were hoping for something better. while its important to better yourself and reach for your goals, dont neglect the present because thats where you are now and its your now that determines your future"

mental health

"anxiety | reality"

socialization

"feel however you need to feel
but act from bravery and compassion"

crafts, activism

"so you want to compost?"

#hard_to_transcribe

mental health, society, trauma

"this young koala has a mental health problem

what i like about this comic is that it doesnt "trivialize" mental health problems in and of themselves. its clear that the koala IS genuinely traumatized by what's happened. but it does emphasize that the mental health problems are a symptom of some real tangible problem that needs to be dealt with immediately"

self compassion, mental health

"when lizzo said "self love is survival" and when hannah gadsby said "do you understand what self-deprecation means when it comes from somebody who already exists in the margins? its not humility. its humiliation" and when mitski said "i used to rebel by destroying myself, but realized that's awfully convenient to the world. for some of us our best revolt is self preservation"

when audre lorde said "caring for myself is not self-indulgence, its self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare" "

unscheduled post:

general self care reminder
take your meds, drink water, check if you need food/are in an uncomfortable posture, take off the binder if applicable (no more than eight hours per day, not sleeping in it, one free day per week, and not using it if you feel pain or find breathing harder than usual), and look outside of the screen (through a window or to a wall, for example) for a whole minute

art, digital, resources

'open source/free alternatives to expensive software' [possibly dated]

#hard_to_transcribe