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turn to your community

On the hard days, especially days like this, I ask and beg to you that you do NOT carry your grief, sadness, and heaviest feelings alone. Turn to your friends, your loved ones, and most importantly, the communities you exist and participate in. Community is not JUST the way we critique, mobilize, and take action: Community ensures that our grief, dread, anger, and feelings of hopelessness are not carried alone. Community ensures we are not paralyzed in facing the scale of our battles. Let yourself be supported, and let yourself mourn with others: only then can we summon the strength to keep moving forward. There is still good, and there is still hope. It's up to us to know our neighbor and build it.

@gemfound

Nov 7, 2024

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Making room for joy, especially in perilous times

Feelings are visitors- they come, we meet with them, they go. Maybe a feeling is a guest for a while. Maybe we leave it in our inner home while we work, or play, knowing it’s there waiting. Then we meet with it again when we’re able. It’s a delicate balance- on one end, stifling our feelings. The other, gripping onto them tightly to the point where we’re suffering. Ideally, we feel it to the point where there’s a natural emptying feeling. I used to cling so tightly to my sadness, anger, grief. I wouldn’t let myself feel moments of joy, because I felt that would somehow take away from it. But when we are feeling those feelings so intensely, it’s actually imperative that we make space for Joy. Peace. Gratitude. Sometimes we can’t do that- I don’t want to not acknowledge the very real experience of depression. I’m rather speaking to the many of us that are probably feeling a lot of hard feelings since the election. Make space for the things that feed your soul. Come back to what is right in front of you- the breeze on your skin, the falling of leaves, the creatures you love. Not all is lost. There is so much to fight for.

@mossyelfie

Nov 13, 2024

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WAYS I COMBAT DESPAIR

1) meds. after last month being absolutely awful for me (injury, sickness, losing my job), and crying every day for a good two weeks i was told to increase my Lexapro dosage which has helped a lot 2) blocking out the bs. someone on this app told me that when it comes to being an advocate for others, you have to be one for yourself first. if you aren’t mentally sound, then you will most likely not be able to fulfill what you can for others or burn out. i had to come to some realizations lately about politics, international affairs, and the privilege i have to sadly, step back. because when i pay too much attention then i get thrown off. there are things in life you can’t control and coming to terms with that and watching from the sidelines is okay. that’s all to say i try my best to avoid negative stuff when it is forced on to me. i give myself an hour out the week to get informed a bit and tune it off. 3) healthy distractions. find things that make you calm. you don’t have to do something that creates a product or anything. just do something to calm your mind. for me that’s my comfort tv shows

@chiawase_

May 22, 2025

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WATER LILY COVERED LAKES

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@mossyelfie

May 31, 2025

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Embracing The Fool Archetype

In Tarot, The Fool is the first card in the Major Arcana, which represents the life cycle. These cycles we are continuously going through in our lives, not just once. The final card of the Major Arcana is The World (which I have tattooed very large on my thigh), which signifies the completion of a cycle and natural ascension into the next. We are then thrust back into the Fool, with a bit more wisdom. The Fool as an archetype is one of joy, curiosity, spontaneity, and trust.  The Fool is pure of heart, knowing that the Universe has got their back.  This innate trust allows The Fool to be playful, to take risks, and truly believe everything will work out.  The more we go through life and experience loss, grief, heartache, trauma, the harder it becomes to embrace this energy.  I’ve found that as healing goes on, just as it’s shown in tarot, we return to this natural state of being. We start off as The Fool when we are wee little babies, and if we are lucky can return there a few cycles at a time, with more wisdom gained each time.   The goal of The Fool is to have positive experiences, maybe for fun, maybe to grow. There is an acceptance with The Fool, a kind of “this is what is, how can I make this work well for me?” Everything works out for The Fool because they don’t know it can’t. Anything we go through in life, we can use to grow.  I personally believe we all could benefit embracing the archetypal energy of The Fool a bit more.  The Fool doesn’t stop to worry what other people will think!  The Fool does not fret about what if’s!  The Fool is in the moment!

@mossyelfie

Jun 1, 2025

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DANCING YOURSELF CLEAN

Humans have always danced. It is part of who we are, yet we have been conditioned to be self conscious, to think that we do not move our bodies good enough. Dancing is beyond judgement. Dancing is not a skill, it is our soul moving through our bodies, expressed in movement. Dancing is healing. Dancing is bodily autonomy. Dancing is FUN! Any feeling you are feeling can be moved through with dance yet even alone, you fear looking foolish. Kill the judge in your mind, shut the fuck up, and MOVE 🌊

@mossyelfie

Apr 24, 2025