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Fuck it, I’m posting the selfcare checklist. I created this for my university seminar students on how to make yourself feel better when anxiety, loneliness, or whatever negative feeling hits. These 10 things are questions literally every single person needs to answer

Have I? (physical needs/daily needs)

Eaten

Drank

Slept

Showered

Have I? (metaphysical needs/every few days needs)

Sat down (reoriented motivations, stopped working, etc)

moved/exercised (have you been sitting too long?)

been outside (10+ minutes in daylight)

Have I? (social needs/weekly)

Talked to someone?

Gone somewhere?

Done something novel? (not exactly new, but interesting or diferent)

You have to answer these questions in order and if you can’t move forward, repeat steps/start over. If you find you can never move forward that’s when it’s time to seek professional help.

paracosmic-gt

Sharing for support :) we got this.

legsdemandias

This post is 3 years old. Where did you guys even find it!!

peptodismaltruck

was thinking about why the lack of female characters in lotr and the hobbit dosen't feel like exclusion and it's because they're just dudes being friends, like they are all just a gang of besties wandering about and the three female characters basically go "right we're doing this now" and they all just go "alright we're doing this now :)"

nothingiswrongwithyourarmrests

The women are treated as people, who are important, but happen not to be the current main characters. The men aren't men because they are better than women at swinging swords, they just happen to be male. They go off to war/ the quest because it happens to fall into their hands. None of them particularly want to. They all want to go back to their life at home where they left the women and families.

Mrs Maggot is kind and sensible. Lobelia Sackville-Baggins is jealous and petty but in the end principled and stout. Arwen is beautiful and kind and learned. Galadriel is powerful and ancient and wise, but is tempted by terrible power. The Ents have lost their womenfolk and miss them, because without women there is a loss greater than not reproducing. Ioreth of the houses of healing talks too much and is a little annoying but is knowledgeable and capable. Eowyn believed her work looking after her uncle to be less important than going to war, but she realizes she was wrong. It may be noble to lay down your life, but it's possible to keep on living and building and healing and that is more important than any battle, and much better than making a home in your despair. Rosie Cotton is faithful and patient and does not take bullshit and keeps the hearth warm in times of crisis.

The women aren't excluded. They have other important things to do.

peptodismaltruck

wait reblog this this is what i meant but better