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"I believe in kindness. Also in mischief." mary oliver

[chronicallydawn]

Oh yeah. And yoga, fresh air, exercise, losing weight, meditation, acetaminophen, sleep, vitamins, antidepressants, etc.

Art by DeeJay Scharton bwpnw.com

[classicalcanvas]

Cliffs of Varengeville, Gust of Wind (1882) by Claude Monet

[chronicallydawn]

What about both?

[chronicallydawn]

I'll fascinate myself 🧀

[chronicallydawn]

Try to be kind people. You never know what's going on in someone else's life.

https://pin.it/41zoljzp2

[insidestory1]

I think one of the biggest misconceptions about fatigue is that it's just a more extreme version of tiredness. Fatigue and tiredness are not the same thing. The biggest difference between them is that tiredness goes away if you rest, but fatigue doesn't. When you suffer from fatigue, your body keeps draining you even while you're lying down or sleeping. It's like a leak's been opened up somewhere and your energy keeps draining away no matter what you do. All you can do is wait and hope that at some point the flow will stop.

[xbrbdreamingx]

actually if you’re disabled i think it’s okay to be a bit of a bitch. people already don’t believe us or are pushy about how they THINK we should exist to fit into their narrative. i’ve been physically disabled for a decade and i spent over half of that time letting people push me around, dictate how my body felt, what i was capable of doing vs what i wasn’t and so on and it made everything WAY worse. in the past couple of years ive gotten…well bitchy about being disabled, because no one else feels the way that i feel in this body and if not letting people bully/boss around my disability makes me a bitch. then i guess im a bitch.

[chronicallydawn]

Hmm... 🤔

[chronicallydawn]

This is my signature dance 🩰

[chronicallydawn]

Ain't that the truth 🖤

[glavilio]

The Mitten illus. E. Bulatov & O. Vassiliev

[chronicallydawn]

[chronicallydawn]

Yup 🛻

https://www.reddit.com/r/WhatWeDointheShadows/s/wl1vmjZEGJ

[chronicallydawn]

That's me 🦐

[chronicallydawn]

That's about right

[chronicallydawn]

[chronicallydawn]

Too true,

why shouldn't I have some fun?

[chronicallydawn]

Liminal states

I think I feel better when I've spent time in a liminal state.

I'm finding that mindfulness meditation is helping me quite a bit with my brain fog, and I feel like I'm in a liminal state when I'm concentrating on my breath during meditation.

Music helps too.

Maybe I should try waking myself up as I start to fall asleep to boost my creativity.

My brain is a mystery to me. 😏

How the Brain Moves From Waking Life to Sleep (and Back Again) | Quanta Magazine

Neuroscientists probing the boundary between sleep and awareness are finding many types of liminal states, which help explain the sleep diso