OH MY GOD, GREY'S!!! Dude needed to go but, fuckkk.

Oh my god, Grey's. No. How dare you.

Y'all, the very last post I read was questions about whether insurance imposes session frequency or duration limits and, fellow therapists, I am *begging* you, please stop telling each other that most insurances won't pay for more than one session a week.

Help, I need a new vice, Reddit won't let me read on my phone without an account and/or downloading the app any more 🥺

the idea of dividing people into those who deserve to parent their children and those who do not is an expression of white supremacy and is what undergirded the development of the systems of family policing and of plenary #adoption in the United States.

Today, it is more important for psychoanalysts such as you to listen to the voices of bodies excluded by the patriarchal-colonial regime than to reread Freud and Lacan. Stop hiding behind the skirts of the fathers of psychoanalysis. — Paul B. Preciado, Can the Monster Speak?, p. 54

Is there a German word for, I'm finally home (and actually settled with food and a soda and a show to watch, bio needs and Catto needs all met) from an all-day event but I'm like, *wired* in a weird-bad way? Feels like a panic attack but I don't think that's what's actually happening 🫠

My white adoptive parents adopted three mixed race children and then had exactly zero real conversations about race with any of us. At best maybe they assumed my older sister and i were "white enough" that they didn't have to but younger sister doesn't pass as white so, 🙃

RE my threads last week on cPTSD, here's a good definition of developmental trauma which I think starts to get at why trauma before one has a self is much more disastrous than trauma that happens after one has a self

The child you're raising shouldn't be the first time you're in a real relationship with a Black or brown person, but unfortunately this is common in transracial adoption

I think a lot about how many white adopters I've seen get offended at the suggestion that they move to a new neighborhood or church, choose schools or extracurriculars carefully, but they fully expect the Black or brown kid they've adopted to quietly assimilate into their all white neighborhood

Love to be in a talk on mutual dreaming between therapists/analysts and their patients with GVD also in the room, lmao

As per always, imagine believing in Original Sin or total depravity but not the existence of structural and/or systemic racism 🫠

BOOP

‘The things you care about are the things that break your heart, are the things that give rise to excellence, are the things that fill your life with meaning and joy’ - Brad Stulberg

Omggg, TWO CATTOS on the couch with me, 😍

Began therapy w GVD coming out to collect me only to find me with eyes tightly shut holding my iced coffee to my forehead... ...ended therapy w me standing up only to lean against the wall to stave off dizziness and being told "2 slices of pepper jack cheese for lunch doesn't count as eating" 🫠

(I think I'm hilarious)

*Finally* got my undercut buzzed! Which obvi didn't fully fix my migraine but it did help a little, and certainly alleviated the amplifying dysphoria

That's Peter Parker. I thought Parker Malloy was a Quaker activist and author.

It me

Moose and crow still give me a jump scare every time I walk into GVD's building, lmao

Ooh, migraine starting *before* therapy... love that for me/us

Do you remember the first time you saw Mt. Rainier? How about the first time you heard it was a volcano? We really enjoyed watching Seattle Storm’s Natisha Hiedeman where she talked about suddenly realizing that there was a mountain there. Happy Volcano Awareness Month!

Wait wait... if I exclusively use this in my home office, can I justify it as a biz expense? 🤔

Talk about being in the right place at the right time! Yesterday, one of our members photographed the moment these lucky folks on Ogden Point got a very close pass from Bigg's killer whale T049A3 "Nat" as he exited Victoria Harbour. 📷: Mark Malleson, Prince of Whales Whale Watching

In other sad, terrible news... my (home) office heating pad randomly stopped working yesterday?? That wasn't really something I expected to have to replace any time soon, 🫠

We are not cancelling any sessions (but won't complain if anyone no shows or later cancels) buuut we are definitely not making it into the office, either. Someone yeet me to Sunday, pls and ty 🥺

Red winged blackbird at nisqually today #nisqually #blackbird #bird #birds #seattle #wildlife #nature #photo #photography

Took my hair out of its topknot... I so desperately need my undercut buzzed. Hopefully I'll have energy after therapy to get it done, doing so would alleviate at least ~60% of my current distress!

Pizza was a good choice if only because I ran into my one therapist friend who also lives in the neighborhood! We were both in need of medicinal pizza, how cute. Time for migraine meds and pizza... hopefully I feel well enough for sessions tomorrow but i doubt I'll make it into the office,. 🫠

I stg gps has never taken me home from the COR office the same way twice. Tonight we're inexplicably going through Cap Hill via Denny? Why

OPINION: (RNS) — We have been here before, and each time the Black church did not simply encourage participation. We enabled it.

Hegseth is the worst Sunday school kid. He exemplifies why we have Church-State separation. Ignorant people authorizing themselves by the Holy Spirit, weaponizing biblical language contra perceived enemies is so dangerous. He makes religious questions a valid litmus test for qualification.

I am feeling kinda migrainey, and that's just no bueno with a client + psychoanalytic study group left today, a full day of pts +therapy tomorrow, aaand a whole-ass conference on Saturday. Le sigh, body. Le sigh.

Randos on the internet (and real life): "We need adoption to save children from their horrible abusive parents!" Actual children with abusive parents:

‘White Female Mamdani’ Mayor of Seattle Caught Blowing Taxpayer Money on Personal Limousine: tinyurl.com/3n2k7jsv

I definitely need to put a new brick in that gap, 😬

Gigantic Moth found by the janitor at work

Re ~modeling self-care~ there's the generational divide that seems to exist btwn all arguments for but specifically with this one it's theoretical orientation at play: What *is* therapy? Behavioral modification, or a place to explore your known/unknown selves?

QRPing 'cause I accidentally buried the thesis lol

Still thinking about this. GVD has texted me *every time* they've been more than a minute late, and it's always been a tech issue. We went over by ~30min once bc of a crisis, and I don't know whether they surreptitiously rescheduled a next pt or happened to have the time free. But it isn't a norm!

you believe in total depravity but not systemic injustice? make it make sense

Cecropia Moth the largest moth in North America, with a 7 inch wing span!

Ya'll don't even know how big a deal this is So many Indig people still MASSIVELY distrust giving birth in hospitals. Forced sterilization, nurses pressuring new moms to give up their kids for adoption "so they'd have a good life" all reasons why having sovereignty over birth MATTERS

The Senate passed the Voting Rights Act renewal in 2006 by a vote of 98-0. The Supreme Court majority gutted it on the grounds that the Justices personally dislike the impact.

After today’s SCOTUS ruling, going forward, if liberation theology is not one of your primary models, then your theology is harmful.

...do not appreciate my phone autocorrecting "proximity" to "promiscuity" as I draft an email to GVD! 💀💀💀

Ok so when I wrote this I legit thought it was raining bc I've been hearing loud running water but actually we haven't had much rain the past couple days &I realized it's whatever pipes run thru my walls buuut the noise got much quieter after I texted my landlord &now I feel like a crazy person 🙃

1. I wouldn't take at face value anything a candidate up for reelection says about his future plans for a higher office. 2. He's running. 3. He's going to win. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnj-...