I love this and you. Just popping in to say that your writing continues to keep my inspiration for my own eventual writing afloat, even though it's all I can do to wade through the crazy days of work and parenting right now.
Also if anyone hasn't seen the Inside Out movies (Inside Out 2 just came out in theaters), I highly recommend them -- they are both such excellent depictions of the abstract ways that emotions function in our brain, and make our feelings into characters we can almost see and name and communicate with. Inside Out 2 looks at, respects, and handles the behaviors and purposes of anxiety better than almost anything I've ever seen and possibly would have saved me years of therapy if it had come out a decade ago, ha ha.
And I respectfully disagree with anyone who thinks that suicide is a peaceful solution. I empathize with the mental anguish that brings people to that decision, but barring cases of fatal degenerative illness, it is never the right choice. Suicide is like planting your own pain into everyone who loves you so that it can continue to grow stronger and spread farther. Surely we can keep searching for a better solution than that.
Always great hearing from you Meredith! I have not seen the movies. I’ll add them to my list. I believe a very big component of my improving mental health is that I can spot big emotions when they hijack me. Not every single time, but I’m getting better at it. I can’t always fully unhook but I will say to myself, sometimes out loud, that this is a reaction. As for suicide, I don’t dispute it plants so much pain in so many others. But I have known (and lost) friends for whom their depression was a fatal degenerative illness. I think it’s really complicated. Heartily concur we need to find better solutions. Hello to T & the kids. ❤️
I'm so grateful to you for helping me find the connections that are currently feeding my soul❤️. I've made early morning animal care and yardwork my ritual lately
Yoga, writing, meditation, and sleep are the cures to much of what ails me. I need to write about my thoughts on suicide. It is a peaceful end for so many that can't find a pain-free space on earth.
Thanks for sharing. It always creates hope to hear how people discover ways to live peacefully on this earth.
Thanks for reading. I’m so grateful for the connections here.
I love this and you. Just popping in to say that your writing continues to keep my inspiration for my own eventual writing afloat, even though it's all I can do to wade through the crazy days of work and parenting right now.
Also if anyone hasn't seen the Inside Out movies (Inside Out 2 just came out in theaters), I highly recommend them -- they are both such excellent depictions of the abstract ways that emotions function in our brain, and make our feelings into characters we can almost see and name and communicate with. Inside Out 2 looks at, respects, and handles the behaviors and purposes of anxiety better than almost anything I've ever seen and possibly would have saved me years of therapy if it had come out a decade ago, ha ha.
And I respectfully disagree with anyone who thinks that suicide is a peaceful solution. I empathize with the mental anguish that brings people to that decision, but barring cases of fatal degenerative illness, it is never the right choice. Suicide is like planting your own pain into everyone who loves you so that it can continue to grow stronger and spread farther. Surely we can keep searching for a better solution than that.
Always great hearing from you Meredith! I have not seen the movies. I’ll add them to my list. I believe a very big component of my improving mental health is that I can spot big emotions when they hijack me. Not every single time, but I’m getting better at it. I can’t always fully unhook but I will say to myself, sometimes out loud, that this is a reaction. As for suicide, I don’t dispute it plants so much pain in so many others. But I have known (and lost) friends for whom their depression was a fatal degenerative illness. I think it’s really complicated. Heartily concur we need to find better solutions. Hello to T & the kids. ❤️
I'm so grateful to you for helping me find the connections that are currently feeding my soul❤️. I've made early morning animal care and yardwork my ritual lately
I’m so grateful to you for being an awesome friend, an awesome neighbor, and for your writing. It all nourishes me so much. Thank you. ❤️
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Yoga, writing, meditation, and sleep are the cures to much of what ails me. I need to write about my thoughts on suicide. It is a peaceful end for so many that can't find a pain-free space on earth.