breathing through swollen lungs.

carly // 17 // she + her // infj a mélange of studyblr material, flowers, quotes, and helpful guides or masterposts. i call it my studyblr- because i do post my own things here! you can expect to find the above material tagged for your ease, please feel free to drop by with an ask or even just a hello~!!

[cyborgsmanifesto]

dealing with the worst case scenario

your condom breaks

you feel a lump on your breast

your friends are ignoring you

you’re stranded on an island 

you got rejected by a crush

you get into a car accident

you got stung by a bee/wasp

you got fired from your job

you’re in an earthquake

your tattoo gets infected

your house is on fire

you’re lost in the woods

you get arrested abroad

you get robbed

your partner cheated on you

you’re on a ship that’s sinking

you fall into ice

you’re stuck in an elevator

you hit a deer with your car

you have food poisoning

your pet passed away

you fall off of a horse

you or your friend has alcohol poisoning

you have toxic shock syndrome

your house has a gas leak

[4velitta4]

I feel like this could be useful in my future

[astrologypixies-deactivated2016]

REBLOG THIS. I CANNOT STRESS HOW IMPORTANT THIS GUIDES ARE, BOOST THIS SHIT

[getupoffyourcassbutt]

If I don’t reblog this one of these things is definitely going to happen to me

[fairythin777]

i really really love this, pls reblog

[thebibliosphere]

So my therapist has been helping me get to grips with my ADHD, and also the concept that I’m not shit at being an adult, I just can’t do things the way everyone has always told me to do them. Like every single “organize your life” books have always left me wanting to cry with frustration, and after I got hold of a copy of Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD by Susan Pinsky I realized that was because they primarily focus on “aesthetic” over “function”. And the function of most standard “organize your life books” is to “make things look Show Home Perfect”.

So the standard “hide all your unsightly things by doing xyz” may look nice for the first week or so, but by the end of the week it’ll look like a tornado made of pure inhuman frustration ripped through the house as I try to find the fucking advil.

To give you an example of the kind of hell I’ve been fumbling my way through the last 20 odd years: dishes will be washed and left in the drying wrack but never put away. Which means I can’t wash more dishes, which means dishes pile up, which means I can’t make food, which means I don’t eat, which means my CFS gets worse, which means I don’t have the energy to put the dishes away, and so on so forth until I have a meltdown, cry to ETD (who also likely has ADHD but has never had it confirmed) about how I can’t cope with life, and then we fix it for a while, but inevitably end up back at square one within about a week.

Pinsky’s solution to this was “remove an obstacle between you and your goal, if that means taking all the doors off your kitchen cabinets to make things easier, so be it.”

And lemme tell you, fucking revolutionary.

Laundry never ends up in the hamper??? why???? is it a closed hamper??? Remove the lid. Throw it out the window. Clothes are now miraculously finding their way into the hamper??? Rejoice????

Mail ends up spread out over every available flat surface? Put a sorting station right where your mail arrives. Put a shredder or “junk” basket under it. Shred or dump the junk immediately. Realize you only actually have two real letters that need attention, feel less overwhelmed, pay your bills on time.

Like I’m not saying this book is miraculous, but it did help me realize that I was effectively torturing myself by trying to conform to certain ideals of “perfect house keeping”, and presenting a certain image rather than just allowing myself to live in my space as effectively as possible. And why? Why was I doing that? Cause people with different lives and capabilities are perceived as the norm? Fuck that. If this was a physical problem I wouldn’t be forcing myself to conform to an ableist standard, so why am I doing it with this?

My lived space will never look a certain way, and that’s okay. It will never look show home perfect, and that’s okay. It will likely always be cluttered and eclectic where nothing matches, and that’s okay. Sometimes I will have odd socks on because sorting them out required too much mental energy, and that’s okay. Actually fuck sorting socks, just buy all your socks in the same color. Problem solved. Boring sure, but also one less thing to do, which means more time to hyper fixate on fun things. Which really, what else is my life for if not to write screeds and screeds of vampire shit posts, I ask you.

[dykemind]

How to Write your Will so men don’t Touch your fucking Body after Death

transcript under the readmore

Keep reading

[wildsurvival]

[bear--hearted]

This is a beautiful graphic but it doesn’t explain the pros and cons of each fire type.

The Swedish torch is good for an efficient and contained fire, it’s controlled and good for cooking over and produces less light and heat than other fires. It can be difficult to keep going once you burn through the original log

The teepee is your traditional campfire. Good for heat and light not great for cooking, burns through fuel fairly quickly

The star fire is one of the slowest burning and not well protected but provides an even heat good for slow cooking and is excellent if you have limited fuel and need the protection a fire can provide

The lean to is a compact and efficient fire that evolves into a dense and hot bed of coals. The structure creates a good source of air flow which can help damp wood burn. A slightly better cooking fire that isn’t as bright. It also provides protection from wind on one side

The platform fire is incredibly hot and will create a very thick bed of coals but it doesn’t have a lot of air flow and is a little harder to get started.

The log cabin is big and bright and has lots of air flow which again is good for damp logs. You can also use this structure to start a smaller fire in the middle while drying out bigger logs. This fire will crumble into a messier bed of coals that don’t produce particularly even heat for cooking.

The modified leanto is excellent if you need it to perform multiple functions. The side with more fuel will burn bright and hot and the side with less fuel will burn less hot but more evenly and controlled, this gives you different cooking options.

[rinitachan]

reblogging for writing purposes. the exact reason will come soon enough.

[balkanradfem]

Citrus tips!

If you have more lemons than you can use at once, here’s what you can do before they go bad:

grate the outer skin of the lemons, put in a bag, freeze! Now you have grated lemon anytime you need it for desserts or cakes.

squeeze the lemon juice out, pour it into ice-cube containers, freeze. Once they’re frozen, take them out and put them in a plastic bag and into the freezer. You can stash unlimited lemon juice this way, and whenever you want a lemonade, just take few cubes and put into a glass of water

seeds can be peeled and planted, for a nice little lemon tree! It’s not gonna make good lemons unless you graft it, but the leaves are very beneficial for clearing up your air, and can be used for tea making! They’re also very beautiful to have on windowsills

Instead of grating, you can also make sugared lemon or orange peels! It only takes cutting them up in stripes, boiling for half hour, to take out the sourness, then boiling in a mix of sugar and water! You dry them afterwards and you made candy.

Other citruses

You can use orange peels for sweetening and adding taste to all your tomato-based sauces

If you have oranges or a similar citrus, and you want to use the peels for a project, but can’t eat all that citrus at once, you can peel it away, then wrap it tightly with a plastic bag, or any airtight wrap. I tried this with a tangerine and an orange and after 3 days in the fridge, they were exactly same as if I had only peeled them that second

You can use citrus peels to infuse any liquid with their scent! You can make citrus-smelling infusion of vinegar and use it as a cleaning liquid, just leave the peels submerged for a few months

Do not throw your citrus peels away! If you can’t use them right away, leave them on top of a heater or a radiator to dry, and they’re good for anytime.

[kasiaslupecka]

My opinion about Burne Hogarth’s ‘Dynamic figure drawing’

Some sketches and notes.

If you are artist that wants to learn anatomy or beginner artist and you are confused which resources to use to learn human figure you might find post helpful. 

This is my take on the book and I want to share some thoughts after reading the book and practicing the topics. There are good things and thing I didn’t like and wouldn’t recommend. Just to give you answer to the question if I liked the book. Yes I liked it. But I want to give you honest opinion on good and not so good things so you as a student or always learning artist can decide if you want to use this book to learn. Let’s start with things I liked. It’s a book that covers unique topic: drawing figure in deep space and drawing without reference. I also liked that it doesn’t represent academic approach. Author rather helps people who had academic background and still have problems with drawing figure that isn’t standing straight like soldier. This book can help you fight stiffness in poses and helps generate ideas for dynamic poses. It teaches you how to draw figure in deep space, meaning : helps you create illusion of depth. Approach to drawing human body is also interesting. Hogarth recommend starting from torso and then adds secondary forms : limbs. This books helps you understand body curves so you don’t need to know anatomy. Actually this is something I like and at the same time I am not sure about. It’s good to know anatomy first before you get into this book. I would say that perfect audience for this book is student who has academic background but can only draw people standing straight like soldiers. Hogarth’s books will help you to invent interesting forms and positions. Although you can’t take his anatomy literally. He has very characteristic style, that isn’t realistic but is believable. “Dynamic figure drawing” many covers male body and there’s very little about female body. It’s because female body just doesn’t look good. It’s like female’s version of male bodies. Doesn’t look very organic and remind me of ancient greek statues. Just to give you example : breasts looks like they are balls attached to the chest. Definitely look for some other source about female body. Overall you can find some great tips and topics that are not covered in other books. This book is for already experienced artists who wish to learn techniques that will expand their academic knowledge. For anatomy look at Bridgman and Loomis 😃 I tried to keep this review as short as I could. Let me know how do you like these kind of reviews and if you would like to see more post like this one in the future.

[salvadorbonaparte]

Hey did you know I keep a google drive folder with linguistics and language books  that I try to update regularly 

[salvadorbonaparte]

**UPDATE**

I have restructured the folders to make them easier to use and managed to add almost all languages requested and then some

Please let me know any further suggestions

[salvadorbonaparte]

[clockworktardis]

….holy shit. You found the holy grail.

[kittydesade]

….. is this a DIFFERENT person keeping gigabytes worth of language books on google drive? Holy crap.

[wyvyrn]

This. This here. Is why I love Tumblr.❤️❤️❤️

[snickerdoodlesandsausages]

How to Stay Cool Without A/C

A lot of Northerners were very kind during the freeze in Texas this winter with tips on how to stay warm for people who had lost heat. This is an attempt to repay that favor for people in the Pacific Northwest and other northerly locations who are facing dangerous heatwaves without built-in A/C. My qualifications to give this advice are that I was a summer camp attendee and counselor with no A/C for many summers in humid-ass central Texas with highs over 100F basically every day. Hopefully some of it will be of use to somebody who isn’t used to the heat.

1) PUT ICE WATER IN YOUR BODY. Ice water is your best friend and the #1 way to drop your body temp. Drink more than you think you need (like, at least a half-gallon a day and closer to a gallon or more if you have to be outside doing manual work all day) to cool your insides down and stay hydrated. Have some bananas, trail mix, or a sports drink to help replace the electrolytes you’re sweating out and keep you from getting cramps, but try to have most of your fluid intake be water. I used to take a giant water bottle, fill it part way with water, and freeze it on its side so the ice would slowly melt over the course of the day and my water would stay cold longer.

2) PUT ICE WATER ON YOUR BODY. Cold water, ice, or a damp rag on your head and neck, the backs of your knees, the insides of your elbows, and under your armpits will help you cool down the best, because your blood runs close to the surface in those places. Cold packs designed for injuries or lunchboxes, bags of frozen vegetables, etc. can substitute for ice water as well. Even room-temp water will pull heat away from your body better than body-temp sweat will, especially if it’s humid, so if you don’t have enough ice, the sink, bathtub, or hose will do fine. Dipping your feet into cool water helps a ton as well if you have to sit and work and don’t want your clothes to be wet.

3) WHERE AM I SUPPOSED TO GET SO MUCH ICE?  To make sure you have enough ice to last you the weekend, especially through a potential power failure, I recommend getting a cooler (even one of the cheap styrofoam ones is fine in a pinch) and ~10lbs of ice from the big coolers at most gas stations, drug stores, or grocery stores. Try to do this now, before anybody loses power, and store as much in your freezer as you have space for to keep it from melting. You can use it for drinking or to keep your food cold in a power failure. You can use it for a party later if you don’t end up needing it during the heat wave, but you will probably be very happy you had it.

4) AIR FLOW. Being inside a room with the windows closed is the worst possible place to be if you don’t have A/C, because glass windows create a greenhouse effect and the hot air can’t escape. If at all possible, find a shaded place outside where you can catch any possible breeze. If not, open all your windows and, if it’s safe, doors so you can get a cross-breeze. Hopefully you have window screens to keep pets and kids in and bugs out. If not, you’re gonna have to do your own risk assessment. Fans of all sizes and descriptions are your friend; ceiling fans should be set to spin counterclockwise in summer. Even if you have A/C, finding or making a handheld fan will be worthwhile for when you have to venture outside. If you aren’t in a situation where you need to conserve ice, blowing air over a cooler full of ice will give you a makeshift A/C. 

5) SHADE. You will probably immediately notice that direct sunlight is a miserable place to be when it’s super hot. Find or make a shaded location, and don’t be afraid to move around to avoid the sun as the day goes on. Stay on the shady side of the sidewalk whenever you walk someplace. Try to shade your windows as best you can without obstructing airflow using blinds, curtains, shutters, etc. especially if they’re directly in the path of the sun. Do not be a jerk to your neighbors if their shade solutions are ugly. If you can get a shade for your car windshield, I highly recommend it, as the steering wheel, dashboard, seatbelts, and even seats can quickly become too hot to touch in a sealed car and will hold that heat for a long time.

6) CLOTHING. Light-colored, loose clothing that is as close to 100% cotton or linen as you can find is your friend. It doesn’t necessarily have to be short as long as it’s breathable. You will sweat through anything you wear, so I personally prefer only wearing machine-washable stuff. Sun hats, sunscreen, sunglasses, aloe gel for sunburns, mosquito repellent, anti-chafing supplies, etc are all worth looking into if you aren’t used to spending time in the heat.

7) TIMING. Try to stay out of the sun and avoid doing anything strenuous in the middle of the day when the heat is the worst. If you have a choice, plan to be more active early in the morning and late at night when the temperature is more bearable, and take a break in the middle of the afternoon.

Here’s a graphic from the CDC about how to recognize heat-related illnesses and what to do about them. I will add to this that if it’s hot and you stop sweating, you are getting to a dangerous level of dehydration and need to drink something BEFORE you start having more serious problems.

[auroras-and-daydreams]

I usually don’t jump on posts, but I think it would be important to have this info too. I used to work parades at Magic Kingdom (if you’ve been you know the parade route has virtually no shade (especially for Cast Members), and the parade is at 3pm, but we are setting up at 1pm, which is the hottest part of the day), so I have a lot of experience in cooling myself down, and from working at a theme park in general, I have learned a lot about dehydration, since that’s the #1 reason we have to call 911 at WDW.

No disrespect to OP, but it is better to drink room temperature water, especially when you’re starting to feel dehydrated. Yes, the cold water is refreshing, but your body has to work harder to have the water the same temperature as your body, so that it can absorb it and hydrate you. With room temperature water, your body can just absorb it, and you’ll feel better faster.

A personal fan and a misting bottle can and should be your best friend. (There’s a reason WDW has been selling these for decades. My parents still have and use the one we bought twenty years ago.) It will cool you down immediately.

For more constant and a whole body cool down, putting a cold, wet rag on the back of your neck is a lifesaver. Because of my costume, I couldn’t put water anywhere else on my body. The neck is the most important part, and you go to the other body parts (behind knees and under armpits) if you’re still not cooling down. (In the rare instances where it got cold, I’d put a pack of hot hands behind my neck too to keep warm. I had to be more inventive to keep it there, but it worked like a charm.) Also, if you go to WDW, you might notice, CMs will always carry water bottles attached to their waist (trust me, no one wants to work without having a water bottle on them), and they will pour water into their hand and then press it against their neck. It is to cool down because we can only do the wet rag trick backstage, although I know some people have gotten away with it, if they put it under your shirt. Oh, also notice how quickly the rag becomes warm to the touch again, and reapply cold water until you cool down.

Another lifesaver after the parade route were these ice pops with electrolytes called Sqwinchers. I did a quick Google search, and they sell them on Amazon (I know, I know) and Walmart. But, you can also freeze Powerade or Gatorade in a popsicle mold, and have the same effect.

Lastly, drink water! Don’t solely rely on juice, soda, iced coffee, or sports drink. You NEED lots of water! When we have to call 911 in the parks, especially during the summer, it is more than likely because they passed out from dehydration/heat exhaustion, and they will say they were either drinking solely sports drinks or a combo of what I mentioned above with little to no watee. So DRINK LOTS OF (ROOM TEMPERATURE) WATER!

Stay safe and cool out there!

[sheherazade-deactivated20210507]

quotes that help me survive:

“You are not lost. You are here. Stop abandoning yourself. Stop repeating this myth about love and success that will land in your lap or evade you forever. Build a humble, flawed life from the rubble, and cherish that. There is nothing more glorious on the face of the earth than someone who refuses to give up, who refuses to give in to their most self-hating, discouraged, disillusioned self, and instead learns, slowly and painfully, how to relish the feeling of building a hut in middle of the suffocating dust.” — Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly

this tumblr text post:

“To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” — Mary Oliver

From an interview with Kazu Makino:

Instructions On Not Giving Up, Ada Limon:

And this poster by Yumi Sakugawa

“You have to believe, in your heart, that even if you don’t work hard and exercise and think positive thoughts and make new friends and march triumphantly into the future, you are still enough. You will always have bad days. Being broken doesn’t make you a loser. You can crumble, and you will still be enough. Make that your religion moving forward. You are here to feel this moment. You are not here to become someone better. You are not here to impress or compete. You are not here to prove yourself. You are here to savor this life. Let down your guard. You are already enough. Believe it.” — Heather Havrilesky

“The first feminist gesture is to say: “Ok. They’re looking at me. But I’m looking at them.” The act of deciding to look, of deciding that the world is not defined by how people see me, but by how I see them.” -Agnès Varda

lyrics from the song Grow by The Oh Hellos:

“The world’s otherness is antidote to confusion, that standing within this otherness—the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books—can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.” — Mary Oliver

“I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you,and that you will work with these stories from your life--not someone else's life--water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. That is the work. The only work.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

[luisonte]

Me duele la cabeza

[humandryersheet]

This is actually examples of the field of mathematics called topology and it’s fucking bullshit wizard shit.

[sereniv]

[thegeminisage]

“frugal” eating recipes be like

oh its SO EASY, just buy this fifty dollar item for forty-nine dollars off with a coupon that you can’t find and don’t have time to cut out at a store that doesn’t have outlets in rural areas and then you can fill in the rest with odds and ends that are SURELY already taking up space in your kitchen that you totally somehow forgot about! [photo of a table full of perfectly arranged meats and fresh vegetables] this little family secret is SO easy and delicious just looking at it will make you gain ten pounds ;) so make sure pace yourself! this right here should be enough to stock your fridge for the next ten months at LEAST so you don’t have to worry about the hassle of mealtime again for awhile!

[thegeminisage]

you know what website actually has my motherfucking back? myfridgefood, put all three (3) things in ur cabinets into their site & even if it’s some stupid shit like “bread cheese and pickles“ they’ll still throw at least half a dozen Depression Meals™ your way

[imfemalewarrior]

For my followers! 

-FemaleWarrior, She/They 

[lord-armitage]

Also try Jack Monroe’s Cooking on a Book Strap. Basically austerity meals Jack made for themselves and their young child when they were living on benefits, everything works out at pence a meal. Sidenote: Jack Monroe is a fantastic queer person and activist and you check them out regardless.   

https://cookingonabootstrap.com/

[tygermama]

Budget Bytes -

recipes broken down by cost per recipe and per serving, meal plans, meal prep, tips on stocking a pantry and how to freeze food

[rationalisms]

rec list on compulsory femininity/the beauty myth

text:

the beauty myth: how images of beauty are used against women by naomi wolf

femininity and domination: studies in the phenomenology of oppression by sandra lee bartky (especially foucault, femininity and the modernization of patriarchal power)

race, beauty, and the tangled knot of a guilty pleasure by maxine leeds craig

objectification theory: toward understanding women’s lived experiences and mental health risks by barbara l. fredrickson

beauty work: individual and institutional rewards, the reproduction of gender, and questions of agency by samantha kwan and mary nell trautner

unbearable weight: feminism, western culture, and the body by susan bordo

wounded beauty: an exploratory essay on race, feminism, and the aesthetic question by anne anlin cheng

selling feminism, consuming femininity by amanda m. gengler

choosing to conform: the discursive complexities of choice in relation to feminine beauty practices by avelie stuart and ngaire donaghue

globalization and beauty: a historical and firm perspective by geoffrey jones

video:

sexy inc.: our children under influence (30 min. documentary)

the sexy lie (10 min. ted talk)

missrepresentation (full length documentary, available on netflix)

this is by no means a complete list of everything that’s been said on the topic but it’s a good place to get started for everyone who wants to educate themselves on it!

[cherriielle]

Hii! Do you ever post drawing tutorials? I would love some insight into your coloring style!

I have done some in the past, yes! You’ll find them in my ‘art tutorial’ tag. Here’s a hair colouring tutorial I recently did on instagram though!

[recoveryisbeautiful]

This list is meant for educational purposes and to help aid your recovery. It is *not* meant for self-diagnosis. If you are concerned about your mental health, please see a professional.

There are thousands more books and way more topics but this is just to get you started. I tried to stay away from religious books as well as books that focus on one gender over another.

There are only a handful of memoirs because they can be triggering. ALWAYS USE CAUTION WITH READING MEMOIRS!

Mental Health:

50 Signs of Mental Illness

Creativity and Madness

Family Guide to Mental Health Care

Holistic Mental Health

Mental Health, Naturally

Psychology of Creativity

Selecting Effective Treatments

Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity, and Human Nature

The Integrated Self

The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy

Addiction & Substance Abuse:

12 Smart Things to Do When the Booze and Drugs Are Gone

Beyond Addiction

Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy

Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, and Threatening

Overcoming Crystal Meth Addiction

Opiate Addiction

Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction

Powerless No Longer

Recovery and Renewal

Quitting Crystal Meth

Anxiety:

Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

Coping with OCD

Dying of Embarrassment

Loving Someone with OCD

Overcoming Obsessive Thoughts

The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook

Bipolar Disorder:

50 Shades of Bipolar: Poems and Reflections from a Twisted Mind

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Madness and Mood

Beyond Bipolar

Bipolar Disorder: Insights for Recovery

Bipolar Strong

Break the Bipolar Cycle

Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light

Facing Bipolar

Finding Your Bipolar Muse

Intense Minds: Through the Eyes of Young People with Bipolar Disorder

In Two Minds: 50 Short Poems

I’m Not Crazy Just Bipolar

Living With Someone Who’s Living With Bipolar Disorder

Less Than Crazy

Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder

Manic

Manic Depression and Creativity

Mind Race

Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness

Perfect Chaos

Preventing Bipolar Relapse

The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide

The Bipolar Relationship

The Tao of Bipolar

The Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder

Touched with Fire

Surviving Manic Depression

Welcome to the Jungle

When Someone You Love is Bipolar

Depression and Seasonal Affect Disorder:

How You Can Survive When They’re Depressed

Not Alone: Stories of Living with Depression

Positive Options for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

Unstuck

What to Do When Someone You Love is Depressed

Dissociative Disorders:

All of Me: How I Learned to Live with the Many Personalities Sharing My Body

Amongst Ourselves

Depersonalization: A New Look at a Neglected Syndrome

Feeling Unreal: Depersonalization Disorder and the Loss of the Self

Multiple Personality Disorder from the Inside Out

The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook

The Stranger in the Mirror

Down Syndrome:

Mental Wellness in Adults with Down Syndrome

Teaching Children with Down Syndrome About Their Bodies, Boundries, and Sexuality

The Down Syndrome Transition Handbook

The Guide to Good Health for Teens & Adults with Down Syndrome

Eating Disorders:

8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder

Beating Ana

Beating Eating Disorders Step by Step

Binge No More

Biting Anorexia

Biting the Hand that Starves You

Brain Over Binge

Brave Girl Eating

Compulsive Exercise and The Eating Disorders

Crave

Decoding Anorexia

Eating Disorders and The Brain

Eating Disorders: A Guide to Medical Care and Complications

Eating Disorders in Sport

Eating Disorder: Something Deeper

Eat, Drink, and Be Mindful

Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat for Binge Eating

Food: The Good Girl’s Drug

Life Beyond Your Eating Disorder

Healing Your Hungry Heart

Mindful Eating

Next to Nothing

Nutrition Counseling in the Treatment of Eating Disorders

Overcoming Binge Eating

Please Eat

Regaining Your Self

The Rules of “Normal” Eating

Therapy for Eating Disorders

Reclaiming Yourself from Binge Eating

Restoring Our Bodies

Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life

Stop Eating Your Heart Out

Telling ED No!

Medication:

Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis

Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine

Mental Health Medications

Saving Normal

The Pill Book (15th Edition)

Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry

Pervasive Developmental Disorders and Sensory Processing Disorders:

Asperkids

Be Different

Can I Tell You About Asperger Syndrome?

How to Make & Keep Friends

Look Me in the Eye

Managing Meltdowns

Taking Care of Myself

The Asperkid’s (Secret) Book of Social Rules

The Autistic Brain

The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome

The Out-of-Sync Child

The Reason I Jump

Self-Regulation Interventions and Strategies

Personality Disorders:

Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified

Hard to Love: Understanding and Overcoming Male Borderline Personality Disorder

I Hate You—Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality

Lost in the Mirror

Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder

Surviving a Borderline Parent

The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide

The Everything Guide to Narcissistic Personality Disorder

The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder

Pregnancy:

A Mother’s Climb Out of Darkness

Bipolar and Pregnant

The Mother-to-Mother Postpartum Depression Support Book

The Postpartum Husband

Understanding Postpartum Psychosis: A Temporary Madness

Psychosis:

Back to Live, Back to Normality

Cognitive Therapy of Schizophrenia

Delusional Disorder: Paranoia and Related Illnesses

Getting Your Life Back Together When You Have Schizeophrenia

Psychosis, Trauma, and Dissociation

Stress Fracture: A Memoir of Psychosis

Surviving Schizophrenia

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

The Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia

Understanding Paranoia

Self Injury:

A Bright Red Scream

Bloodletting

Bodily Harm

Cutting

Inside A Cutter’s MindThe Tender Cut

Suicide:

Choosing to Live

Hello Cruel World

Suicide: The Forever Decision

Workbooks:

ACT Made Simple

Breaking Free: A Recovery Workbook for Facing Codependence

Breaking the Cycle: Free Yourself from Sex Addiction, Porn Obsession, and Shame

Calming the Emotional Storm

CBT Skills Workbook

Co-Occuring Disorders Workbook

Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation

Depressed and Anxious

DBT Made Simple

End Emotional Eating

Finding Life Beyond Trauma

Finding Your Voice Through Creativity

Freedom From Self Harm

Healing From Post-Traumatic Stress

Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic Workbook

Mind-Body Workbook for Anger

Mind-Body Workbook for Anxiety

Mind-Body Workbook for PTSD

Mind-Body Workbook for Stress

Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder

Mind Over Mood

Never Enough: A Recovery Workbook

Overcoming Bulimia

Overcoming Crystal Meth Addiction

Overcoming Paranoid and Suspicious Thoughts

Overcoming Social Anxiety

Overcoming Trauma and PTSD

Overcoming Your Alcohol or Drug Problem

Rational Recovery

Reflections: An Eating Disorders Recovery Workbook

REPAIR Your Life Workbook

The Addiction Workbook

The Anorexia Workbook

The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook

The Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating Workbook

The Bipolar II Disorder Workbook

The Body Image Workbook

The CBT Toolbox

The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Anxiety

The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook for Depression

The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook for Personality Disorders

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook for Anxiety

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook for Bulimia

The Grief Recovery Handbook

The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety

The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction

The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD

The OCD Workbook

The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety Workbook

The PTSD Workbook

The Sex Addiction Workbook

The Substance Abuse & Recovery Workbook

Stopping the Pain

Stop the Chaos Workbook

Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse Workbook

When Panic Attacks

Other:

Banish Your Body Image Theif

Bouncing Back

Broken Open

How to Train a Wild Elephant

Intuitive Self-Healing

Mind Whispering

Radical Acceptance

The Art of Comforting

The Book of Qualities

The Core Journey: Unleash Your Power to Thrive

The Dancing Self

The Exercise Balance

The Mindfulness Solution

The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion

The Mind-Made Prison

The User’s Guide to the Human Mind

Shut Up, Skinny Bitches!

Simple Abundance

You Are A Badass

Your Body Never Lies

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Today I learned

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Free Audiobooks and Ebooks on OVERDRIVE.

Free Graphic Novels (DC, Marvel, Image, etc), Music, TV shows, and music on HOOPLA.

Free music that you can KEEP on FREEGAL

You are PAYING for all this with your tax money - USE THEM. Most likely systems will have all 3 or 2 out of 3, so if you aren’t sure call your local library’s reference/information desk and how you can get set-up or started.

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Helpful links to all of the above:

Overdrive: https://www.overdrive.com/

Hoopla: https://www.hoopladigital.com/

Freegal: https://www.freegalmusic.com/home

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More places to find FREE EBOOKS:

Standard eBooks (basically stuff off of Project Gutenberg, but prettified)

Baen Free Library

Book Bub - Free eBooks and Free Kindle books

Bubblin Books

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Useful if you’re an ebook power user: Calibre

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Oh yes, and Kanopy for movies.

Watch over 30,000 Documentaries, Classic and Indie Films. On Desktop, Mobile and Roku for Students, Professors & Library Patrons.

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Two job-hunting resources that changed my life:

This cover letter post on askamanger.com. A job interview guide written by Alison Green, who runs askamanager.

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Shout-out to @ms-demeanor for putting these on my dash again, I’d like to add this exceptional interview question “answer guide” that explains traps and “the best” way to answer over 64 common questions. I don’t know who to attribute it to, but here it is: PDF from tri valley one-stop career center.

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