My body is keeping the score like it's trying to win a gold medal

No one: Absolutely no one: Therapist at a Super Bowl party: You might not know this, but actually it's the body that keeps the score

*young me, developing a strong sense of justice* This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane

photo from a friend at a lego convention right now, amazing 🌭

The revolution begins with yourself. An egg opened from the outside is food; opened from the inside is new life

Punxsutawney Phil predicted humanity would annihilate itself through tribalism and environmental indifference

"Evil consists in injustice and cruelty and indifference to a neighbour's trouble, while virtue is brotherly love and goodness and justice and beneficence and concern for the welfare of one's neighbour." -Musonius Rufus, Lecture 14

"Just gotta get through this week," he said, every week

Damaged but with great information inside is actually a pretty accurate description of me

One of the best ways to combat How Everything Feels Awful Right Now is to do something on a regular basis that helps others directly. Whether you go out and volunteer at a soup kitchen or stay home and volunteer for a helpline, those actions create hope & make positive changes feel attainable.

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Me: I've been talking about me too much. It's your turn to talk about me. Tell me three good things about me. My Therapist: What?

Was it predictions of what 2026 is going to be like?

me and my therapist just kind of shrugging at each other

Everyone is nostalgic for 2016, but I feel like a lot of my problems either started or got much worse in 2016

I love when I’m at an appointment with my psychiatrist and I accidentally slip into ‘therapy appointment’ mode and start venting about some ancient trauma and she’s just like mmhmm so anyway we’re upping your dosage on the…

*My therapist saying something that will blow my mind and give me the chills*: it seems like maybe the way you were raised affected you Me: 😮😮😮😮

My Therapist: "You have a fear of commitment" Me *in tears* : "...but not to the bit, right" Her: "No, your commitment to the bit is ironclad" Me: "Good, I was really worried for a moment"

Part of me wants to call in sick tomorrow. Probably my brain.

Trying to figure out if need to catch up on my email inbox after the holidays or if it's just all meaningless

Explaining to my therapist that I'm actually really good at radical acceptance with the exception of accepting things that I do not like

the years really do start coming and they don't stop coming

Explaining to my therapist that because deep belly laughs include prolonged exhaling I consider them to be breathwork

very well then. send as many men as you can spare. and fresh horses for all of them (covering the phone and leaning over to talk to my wife, the queen) an egg fell. off a wall

sales associate: (drawing sword) may i have your email me: (also drawing sword) you may not

Bold Prediction: in 2026, dogs will still be overwhelmingly fantastic

You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check

Me: My parents lied to me Therapist: I wouldn’t call that a "lie." Me: [excited] Santa’s real?

My father-in-law is watching a YouTube channel where a guy looks for and sometimes finds old silver dimes; his catchphrase is "it's dime time." As far as I'm concerned my father-in-law is the only person using YouTube properly.

The kind of energy I'm bringing to family gatherings this holiday season

open.substack.com/pub/socratic... Book Review: Eight Principles for a Modern Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Re-Imagining CBT in Clinical Training by Scott Temple and R. Trent Codd III

an octopus has three hearts to follow instead of one; how stressful.

Explaining to my therapist that a sweater that was designed to be ugly is actually hideous and a sweater that was designed with love and is incidentally ugly in a beautiful way is actually a treasure

Texting my therapist right before the appt "coming in hot"

Had to explain Ea-Nasir to my therapist

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and a duck that does crimes

thinking of the introverted woman who said she's never felt FOMO. she's only felt ROMO (Relief Of Missing Out)

I don't know who made this, but I love you

Sad beige mom is out and depressed Gen Z green is in

There needs to be a new Grinch song about specifically Jim Carrey’s version of The Grinch and it needs to be about the actual movie and it needs to be 5x nastier same tune tho

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is my favorite song about how people will only love you if you're useful.

As a therapist, I’m less interested in How the Grinch stole Christmas than WHY the grinch stole Christmas

The Grinch was 53 years old when he stole Christmas. I am 47 and I totally fucking get it.

therapist: what’s on your mind me: my kindness hasn’t killed a single person so what is that about

“Did you like that necklace I got you? You don’t remember? I gave it to you last week. You said you loved it. You really forgot that quickly?”

you guys ever wonder if aliens watch ET around Christmas time bc it’s their “Home Alone”