Cyrus Chen
@cyrus
Cyrus Chen
You're not weird for struggling w/ phone calls. Many trauma survivors experience a very specific spike of anxiety around making (or receiving, for that matter) calls-- & many keep our reactions under wraps, because we're not "supposed" to be triggered by something so "normal."
Dr. Glenn Patrick Doylex.com
đź’ś I thought everyone did this? I do it all the time. đź’ś
#selftalk #triggered https://t.co/U4RaNu6lrr
“Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estés - Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, 1992.
Alison Ingram - Spring Shadows and Swallows, 2025.
instagram.comIf American constitutional democracy is a game, then they’ve flipped the board with the aim of using the same pieces to play a new one with their own boutique rules.
Jamelle Bouie • Opinion | There Is No Going Back
Headwater is a portal
Every river has a headwater, a watering hole somewhere high up.
A place where a water stream emerges onto the surface of the Earth.
Many ancient cultures have seen these places as sacred, places of healing and vision.
Where is your Headwater ?
Your own river collects itself like an underground cloud and starts dripping upwards, ... See more
Every river has a headwater, a watering hole somewhere high up.
A place where a water stream emerges onto the surface of the Earth.
Many ancient cultures have seen these places as sacred, places of healing and vision.
Where is your Headwater ?
Your own river collects itself like an underground cloud and starts dripping upwards, ... See more
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Headwaters: 6-Week Course on Writing and Regenerating Your Creative Prowess
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At this point in any argument like this one, the question arises of what should be done and, more critically, what can be done? The sad answer is not that much . Those with the direct institutional power to slam the brakes lack the will and those with the will lack the power.
Opinion | There Is No Going Back
The extent to which the United States is embroiled in a major political crisis would be obvious and apparent if these events were unfolding in another country. Unfortunately, the sheer depth of American exceptionalism is such that this country’s political, media and economic elites have a difficult time believing that anything can fundamentally cha... See more