Nobody who is judging your CPTSD symptoms or recovery from the outside could possibly conceive of the commitment & courage you need to muster every day to face this. Their opinions are not valid & their judgments are not relevant. Recovery focus. All day.

Iridescent Care is *excited* to bring the shiny mental health joy back to Pagan Pride! Our providers have decades of experience serving the TC Pagan community. Please come by Booth 24 (near the Fountain) and get one of our new stickers and receive a glitter blessing to wear around Pagan Pride!

You’d think they’d learn by now. @lincolnproject.us

HEY YOU. YOU GOT THIS. I believe in you. You didn't fuck it up. You just gotta pivot. You can do that. LET'S PIVOT. Let's do this. Nap first if you need to.

REMINDER: ONE WEEK AWAY! Case Consultation Business Coaching Networking Want to learn about our membership model or our new 1099 openings? Got a clinical case that you'd love an open-minded take on? Have questions about your practice dreams? Just wanna meet some other cool therapists?

Case Consultation Business Coaching Networking Want to learn about our membership model or our new 1099 openings? Got a clinical case that you'd love an open-minded take on? Have questions about your solo or group practice dreams? Just wanna meet some other cool therapists and chill for an hour?

For my money we don't talk enough about the aftermath of setting a boundary, in which we overthink & second guess it for days or more. It's real important during that time we keep reminding ourselves why we set it-- & that we have both the right & responsibly to set boundaries.

Looking forward to serving as a panelist on "The Heroine's Journey" with some other inspiring heroines at @convergencecon.bsky.social this weekend. I *loved* @gailcarriger.bsky.social 's book on this topic, which inspired this panel! www.convergence-con.org

I'm excited and honored to present at this event! Join us as we raise the bar for counseling supervision in Minnesota. www.mnca.org

Needed this today.

What if we imagined from love, not fear? As UUs, we believe every body is sacred. Reclaiming our imagination is spiritual work—and justice work. What stories about bodies are we ready to unlearn together? #EveryBodyIsSacred #LoveNotFear #UU #Decolonize

The Education Department says millions of borrowers in default will have a chance to make a payment or sign up for a repayment plan. But on May 5, those who don't will be referred for collection.

A study from the American Journal of Psychiatry suggests that psychotherapy is becoming more accessible to people. The study looks at trends in mental health treatment from 2018 to 2021.

Iridescent Care Collaborative (the group mental health practice I own) is hosting a free virtual business brainstorming and networking session tomorrow! Bring your half-baked ideas, and we'll help you develop them. www.eventbrite.com/e/1281157981...

There was a trans woman in my small rural hometown while I was growing up. I was aware that she didn't get the same respect as other people, and I didn't understand why. I was bullied growing up for my own reasons, so I really don't like bullying.

Our worst year can become our best year-- if it's the year we commit to trauma or addiction recovery. We don't have to love what we endured this year-- but we can turn it into the year we got realistic & consistent about relating to ourselves w/ compassion, patience, & respect.

Trauma Brain will always give us "good" reasons to do self-harmful or self-neglectful things-- and it'll always find "good" reasons to put off recovery habits & self-nurturing things. Remember that Trauma Brain has an agenda-- that does NOT include your happiness or longevity.

1/ Below, you'll find the YouTube link to a segment of a recent service at my church, First Universalist Church of Minneapolis, where I micropreached about polyamory. www.youtube.com/live/UNg_O09...

Oh yeah, amidst all the ongoing chaos that is (waves hands) everything, I had a new poetry collection released. www.amazon.com/Spring-Morni...

Signal's a great app to keep your communications secure, but make sure you know the identities of the users in your group chats. Our SSD guide on how to use Signal includes guidance on managing your group chat preferences.

Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.

Focusing on our own physical health, our economic stability, & our emotional safety in trauma recovery is the opposite of "selfish." In fighting for ourselves we are fighting for everyone & everything we care about-- for our ability to show up & be there for them.

My feed is increasingly looking like the pre-credit montage of headlines in a post apocalyptic action movie.

I guess we have a new definition for "Trump Derangement Syndrome" now.

Being tired after years of struggle isn't the same as being "weak." The most capable athlete is tired after running a marathon-- and you've been running marathon after marathon, for years, just staying alive. You're not "weak." You're exhausted.

I can’t stress enough how important it is for your mental health to take breaks from the internet, make plans with your loved ones, take up a craft or hobby, read for pleasure. Our brains were not made to be online 24 hours a day. You will not regret a life spent in this world.

Every time we refuse to respond to a trigger w/ self-harm, shame, or abandonment, we strengthen our ability to hold the line. It can feel awful to not do the thing we want to do in a bad moment-- but every single time we choose self-care, it strengthens our self care "muscle."

“There was a real deep philosophy behind the work that [18F was] doing, a real deep sense of intentionality, and a real deep commitment to delivering the best possible outcome for the American taxpayer.” (Side note: Our commitment still stands. 🇺🇸)

Also every therapy session

“To the crowd, Walz was encouraging, saying their anger is justified. ‘The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting,’ he said. ‘You’re not.’” www.yahoo.com/news/somethi...

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

I have a busy programming schedule this weekend at MarsCon [ marscon.org/2025/ ]. Please come say hello! 04:00pm Saturday: Indie Author Buffet 06:00pm Saturday: Why Are Rogues In Vogue? 03:00pm Sunday: The Psychology of the Rogue

#Minneapolis #Booksky 2nd book table of the year! Look for us at MarsCon Minneapolis this weekend 3/7-3/9 at the Hilton by the airport - we’ll have a book table and @mmerriam.bsky.social and Catherine Lundoff will be on programming! marscon.org/2025/

Coming soon to the market: Our Townhome! A great starter home. Please share. boardwalkrealtymn.idxbroker.com/idx/details/...

As we sit in a hotel room in Chickasha, OK, the day before his mother's funeral, this is a reminder of another way you can lovingly support @mmerriam.bsky.social this very complicated week. And get something super cool from it, in which you even see some of the art inspired by our youth here.

Michael and I are so grateful for all the support we've had, in so many ways, as we prepare for Fern's funeral. We're literally sitting at the gate right now at MSP Airport awaiting our flight to Oklahoma to join family. So it's a good time to share this link again.

Paganicon 2025 scheduled for March 21-23 at the Crowne Plaza Minneapolis West has many professional and knowledgeable people offering a huge array of healing and divination services throughout the weekend Find out more in our newsletter – see link below! hosted.verticalresponse.com/652120/6fde3...

I've started a fundraiser to assist with my mother's end-of-life expenses. Anything you donate will go to those expenses and assist the family with travel expenses to Oklahoma. gofund.me/76d59487

Many are asking: “What can I do now?” Here’s a revised and expanded list of actions you can take, in rough order of importance. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/more-on-what-you-can-do

Please come talk to me about religion and/or spirituality. I'm learning even moar about getting good at this, and I *love* helping clients figure out how their beliefs fit into their lives. iridescentcare.com/sherry-l-m-m...

And this is why what disabled activists mean when we say our mere existence is political. That accessibility is political.

I'm telling people this, and these are the words I plan to live by during this administration (and beyond): find places where you can help, places where you can resist, with whatever energy you can safely spare. No one can do it all, but all of us can do something, no matter how small.

It is Small Business Saturday. As a hybrid author, I am a small business. I write horror, steampunk, urban fantasy, and weird westerns. You can find my books here: queenofswordspress.com/authors/mich... www.amazon.com/.../Michael-...

I'm new here, so I'm looking through y'all's "following" lists to see who else I should pick up, and I'm noticing something: A lotta y'all are Following known repeat sexual assaulters, sexual harassers, and enablers. WTF? So what's your excuse for empowering this culture of sexual violence? #MeToo

Bumping Minneapolis bookstores Magers and Quinn’s collection covers all subjects and features hard to find and unusual editions. www.magersandquinn.com DreamHaven Books carries new and used science fiction, fantasy, horror, film and media books, comics, and graphic novels. dreamhavenbooks.com

May we all find ways to accomplish the seemingly impossible. #therapistsky #psychscisky #nature #squirrels

#Booksky It’s Small Business Saturday and here’s our reminder that we are a queer woman-owned small press that publishes great books with LGBTQ+ MCs. You buy books direct from our website, on sale at DriveThruFiction right now, on sale at Amazon now, on Bookshop and beyond! queenofswordspress.com