Ardently & unapologetically feminist,counsellor - women's health specialising in miscarriage.

Victoria
Joined February 2012
Can we stop saying nervous system or brain when it comes to how we think, feel and act. It’s the whole thing. The affective circuitry is all of our organs and connective tissue and they all play a part in how we feel. This circuitry communication our needs. It’s about needs
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An experienced American prosecutor just stood up in a courtroom in 2026, during a triple-homicide trial, and suggested in her closing argument that a mentally ill woman should have attempted suicide a different way. Our government has become disturbingly comfortable using its power this way. Our healthcare system is broken. Our institutions are failing catastrophically. Cora, Dawson, and Callan should all be alive. Lindsay should not be sitting in this courtroom. She should be mentally well, after receiving adequate treatment, and living with her family. Instead of confronting the systemic failures that helped create the circumstances of their deaths, the government stood before a jury and criticized how Lindsay tried to kill herself. We should all be outraged.
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If things are starting to go bad in your head postpartum, the single most important thing you can do is get sleep, and not just a broken hour here and there, but full REM cycles. There is no household task you can do more important than sleeping. Ask for help so you can sleep. Go into debt for a night nurse if that's all you can do. Use the evil cry it out method if your baby is over 3 months. If you're hallucinating either visual or auditory (like hearing a voice saying hurt your kids), you HAVE to get sleep. You don't need psych drugs more than you need sleep. I cannot overstate this. Husbands, move heaven and earth to make sure you wife gets enough sleep postpartum.
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The current World Cup fiasco is example #1569 of why I hate the euphemism “Trump’s America” as though Americans by and large don’t have this weird chauvinistic and entitled attitude towards everything.
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i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: the old wisdom of needing time for convalescence was right and it’s been lost in favour of temporary Productivity instead of solidifying long-term health, and it’s hurting us all. often it’s REST that’s most needed and hardest to achieve
GPs in England will no longer issue “sick notes” in NHS trials to reduce the number of people signed off work Occupational therapists and “social prescribers” who recommend job coaching and therapy like exercise or gardening will be used instead to draw up stay in work plans
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Jenner retweeted
I will never understand how so many of y’all were hoodwinked into believing the government should not use the money you pay in taxes to create a social safety net that benefits you, fund public healthcare, lower housing costs, and make daily life more affordable.
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🚨 Iran FM Spokesperson: It is unacceptable that while Iranian people are under bombardment, other countries talk to us about the price of fuel and food! If some countries concerned about fuel prices, they should go to the ones responsible for this situation, #US & its #proxies
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Jenner retweeted
Are you "burned out," or are you simply having a reasonable reaction to a never-ending constant barrage of bad news that you can do very little or nothing about?
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Jenner retweeted
May Venezuela send all of them home in body bags
US Army CH-47 Chinook (carry 36 soldiers) were spotted flying over Caracas. There are at least 10 of them. US invasion has started.
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unpopular opinion but your political views are more than opinions, they’re a reflection of your values, your empathy, and the way you see humanity.
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you can literally wake up one day and be like “actually, fuck everything ab my past and the self-sabotaging identity i had” and decide to live an entirely new life and be some1 who always fucking wins. it doesn’t take a feeling or breakthrough moment or epiphany. only a decision.
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16, too young for social media. 14, old enough for a life jail sentence. MAKE YOUR FUCKING MIND UP, AUSTRALIA.
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Ngl, adult friendships require grace. People are very busy. People are healing. People are growing. People are taking time for self care just like you. Less communication isn’t less love. Check in not out.
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Replying to @assoc1counsell
Practically the new norm unfortunately.
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It has often always been liberals who parade as being progressive, that have propelled fascism to power. Not only through political failings that never address material needs, but because they both rely on fantasies and distorting reality to secure their political interests. Interests that do not serve the people. Especially when you understand how deeply interwoven fascism and capitalism are within one another. A society cannot be one without the other in essence. And especially with empires like America; imperialism is fascism turned outward. Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin in that sense. They never diverge on consolidating foreign intetests, perhaps on how they do. But the aim is the same. What they support overseas, they have to support when it turns up at home as well. It's just pepsi vs. coke. They only package it differently. They're symptoms of the same diseased culture; of a morally bankrupt, rotten political core that ultimately serves the same corporatocracy. The liberal political elite within the United States show us time and time again how class solidarity for them always triumphs over any semblance of moral/ principled solidarity. There's is vertical, not horizontal. They will never actually resist outside of empty statements and condemnations, the authoritarianism that ultimately benefits their corporate class sponsors as well. And yet they incredibly hoodwink the populous to believe otherwise. As long as the corporate machine and military industrial complex dictates all resource allocation towards what further emboldens their interests and benefits them— over, true societal wellbeing— nothing will change in America. Just how they dress up the same agenda.
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The American left does not exist. The American right does not exist. What exists is empire. One wears rainbow pins. The other wears crosses. But both kneel to the same gods: Profit. War. Control.
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July 31st vs. August 1st
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Don’t take instruction on how to live your life from a stark raving mad society. This civilization is sick. It is genocidal. It is ecocidal. It is omnicidal. We are ruled by psychopaths, while the best among us are relegated to the fringes of the fringe. We are hurtling into totalitarianism and armageddon at breakneck pace while our attention is aggressively pulled toward the vapid and the inane. You should share none of the values and priorities of this freak show. You should not let any aspect of this dystopia inform your decisions regarding who you should be and what kind of life you should live. In this warped and twisted madhouse, we are trained to believe that “success” looks like making a lot of money, earning large amounts of esteem and adoration, having a certain body type, living in the right kind of neighborhood in the right kind of house full of the right kind of products to impress the right kind of people. We are trained to believe we need to rack up all kinds of accomplishments, academic achievements, promotions, impressive stories, social ascendence. We are trained to believe we must attract a certain type of partner who will be approved of by everyone whose approval we crave. If we cannot achieve these goals, we are trained to believe we should feel bad about ourselves. That we don’t deserve happiness. That we should either spend our time stressing and striving for worthiness as defined by our crazy civilization, or go and join the ocean of miserable failures who couldn’t win the capitalism game and sedate ourselves with alcohol and entertainment waiting for death to carry us into the nothingness where we belong. This is clearly insane. It’s a stupid game with stupid prizes. The only reason anyone takes it seriously is because we were raised and taught how to live by people who take it seriously. Our parents have been indoctrinated into the power-serving worldview that has been forcibly imposed upon the denizens of the empire, and we want to make them proud. Our friends, families and acquaintances have been likewise brainwashed, and we want to impress them. But to do so is to take lessons on how to live from a collective disease that is pointed at misery and dysfunction. It is impossible to lead a truly fulfilling life while also trying to live the way the people around us think we should live, because the society which shaped their ideas about how we should live is insane. If you want to really live an awake and inspired life, you’ve got to blaze your own trail. You’ve got to unlearn everything you’ve been told about what a life properly lived would look like, and write your own rules. Because the rules everyone else has been playing by were written by madmen. Find your own truth. Set your own values and priorities. Define your own idea of success. Define your own idea of sanity. Consider the possibility that just being present for the beauty of each moment on this wonderful planet is worth more than anything the imperial insane asylum has to offer you. Consider the possibility that your very next breath, deeply relished, would be enough. We are destroying our planet and driving every living organism toward annihilation. The status quo has failed as spectacularly as anything could possibly fail. The old ways of doing things plainly do not work. So try some new ways. Be different. Be strange. Be a freak. Do everything the wrong way. Disappoint your parents. Fail to live up to your potential. Transgress your family doctrine. Anger whatever gods you were taught to believe in. Nothing anyone has done has worked. It is therefore necessary to travel off the beaten path. The world won’t get better until humanity changes its ways. Humanity won’t change its ways if it keeps insisting on trying the same failed approaches over and over again. Our survival as a species depends on diverging from our patterns. Maybe we’ll succeed in surviving, and maybe we won’t. But at the very least we can rescue ourselves from spending one more day on this amazing blue world trying to live by the rules of lunatics.
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Evan Rachel Wood on the Diddy Verdict:
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