Maeve

Health savings/flex account. Those hours and kind of job, anything can happen at any moment. Short and long term disability insurance, short and long term unemployment savings or insurance (maybe an annuity?).

Please consider donating a little to your local food bank/homeless shelter/soup kitchen, and/or donating a year of physical fitness for a child, elderly person, or other vulnerable person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(drink)

Ginger bier is quite spicy, hot if it has enough in it. What you expected sounds like sarsaparilla?

I don’t care for either, but I’m ready chicken liver in dirty rice.

Natural casings from quality sausages are pig intestines. And chitterlings.

I’ve been on crutches more than once, so pick an item.

Eye of the beholder.

Older people who have mobility issues sometimes prefer cities because markets, banks, care providers, other services can be close to home, it easily within ~5 minutes walking/golf cart distance.

Run

Most Burgerlander visual aid ever.

My love to everyone participating in this thread. We are deserving, worthy, and worth it. And we recognize each other.

I suspect it’s more common than you may imagine. Fwiw, blood children are also treated this way.

https://www.lovetoknow.com/life/relationships/6-dysfunctional-family-roles-their-characteristics

Healing is available. It’s a slow, often painful, messy (non-linear process). But it’s doable. The alternative is stay sick, get sicker, perpetuate the cycle. You’re willing to talk about it a little, so it indicates the wounds haven’t yet calcified, and that’s a good sign. I encourage you to look into it, and various healing modalities.

https://www.lovetoknow.com/life/relationships/6-dysfunctional-family-roles-their-characteristics

https://www.simplepractice.com/resource/attachment-styles-worksheet/ (applies to all relationships)

https://ineffableliving.com/50-shadow-work-journal-prompts-that-go-deeper-than-surface-reflection/ (I would leave this until you’re stabilized and hitting plateaus).

In fact, I recommended starting with the basics, and exploring what help may be available to you until you stabilize*. But I have full faith in your capability to manage the journey.

Best to you, fellow traveler. 🫂

Divorced parents/nasty custody battle/switching school/lunching alone, for a time. It was a long time ago, and I’ve worked through it, for the most part. My original parents never did, I think, but moved on, nonetheless. I used to feel sad for them but the more I age, the more I realize it’s probably for the best. Can’t mend together what we refuse to face, individually.

Lies! I saw your sling bonding (and approve)! Have a good night/evening/day, my friend.

If we’re trauma bonding over here, count me in. Similar tale.

❤️

Likewise.

I find that imagination can help with focus sometimes.

I’ll hazard an uneducated guess that it’s related to memetics (in the Blackmore/Dawkins sense), and/or epigenetics (which may be built on the framework of memetics).

Just another tool to maybe help navigate the unpredictable

Maybe no maybe. 😉 And maybe the predictable.

The mind seems to be more motivated by vivid imagery than dull imagery.