Devotional blog dedicated to the Goddess Sigyn offering support to those who are "holding the bowl" within difficult relationships.
Author: Sephira
Born and raised primarily in Northern Virginia, my family and I moved to North Carolina in 2006. Married for over 20 years, my husband and I have two boys and a gaggle of cats.
For me, writing is a great stress reliever. I can let my mind wander and let my emotions run free in a way that is generally not possible in my normal everyday life. My writings run the gamut in terms of style and genre – for instance my first novel is a historical romance set in the Civil War, but some of the other things I have in the works are fantasy or thrillers, among other things.
It probably goes without saying, but my poetry is somewhat eclectic in nature, and again while some may feel the need to stick with a particular form, I tend to write just whatever comes to mind. Let the winds of inspiration lead me on…
I’m always interested in comments and feedback. So please feel free to share your thoughts with me!
Native Gaelic speakers with dementia are being helped to recall memories through conversations in the language with school children.
This makes me so happy, especially because not only does it keep one of the Gaelic community’s most important cultural activities alive, i.e. the cèilidh – in other words meeting people in order to exchange stories, memories and songs – but it’s also helping to keep the language and its different traditional dialects alive through a brilliant example of intergenerational language transmission.
You can be depressed and not feel sad or blue. Depression can also be a haze of sleepiness, distractedness/obsessiveness cycles, and a twinge of irritability that can be hard to recognize because you might already be a “fiery” person. It can feel like a lazy Sunday that keeps imposing itself for weeks or months.
Anxiety in kids can be particularly distressing but they respond well to intervention. Here’s are the skills that will build them and protect them for life.
I just read this and am going to read it again with my teenage daughter who has been dealing with anxiety for years. I know a lot of folks on Tumblr also suffer with anxiety and I’m sharing this because it might contain some helpful suggestions.
I’m completely head over heels for the idea that Sigyn isn’t there to “help” Loki or change him. She’s not the “good” to his bad, not his opposite, not some pure thing that has a spotless moral compass. She’s knows who and what Loki is, and though sometimes she may not agree with his actions, she doesn’t try to correct his character. He’s a grown ass man, he can change himself. She has her own flaws, her quirks, her problems, her scars. I’m not saying she should be some traumatized, gritty, dark character, but there’s so much to explore- especially when mixing positive and negative ideals
Ugh yes Give me all the complex Sigyns with equal parts good and bad
And that’s the most frustrating thing about depression. It isn’t always something you can fight back against with hope. It isn’t even something — it’s nothing. And you can’t combat nothing. You can’t fill it up. You can’t cover it. It’s just there, pulling the meaning out of everything. That being the case, all the hopeful, proactive solutions start to sound completely insane in contrast to the scope of the problem.
It would be like having a bunch of dead fish, but no one around you will acknowledge that the fish are dead. Instead, they offer to help you look for the fish or try to help you figure out why they disappeared. (x)
This is actually a really good way to explain it, I think.
I WILL NEVER NOT REBLOG THIS
I’ve seen this reblogged without the original caption before and boy was i confused
Wait, this version of the post misses out what I think is the most important bit of the paragraph
“The problem might not even have a solution. But you aren’t necessarily looking for solutions. You’re maybe just looking for someone to say “sorry about how dead your fish are” or “wow, those are super dead. I still like you, though.”“
My teenage daughter and I started using this as a reference when I was not-helpfully trying to help her with her depression. She will look at me and say, “Mom, the fish are dead.” Or I’ll stop myself and say, “Oh. The fish are dead, aren’t they?”
And let’s keep credits on this: This is the work of Allie Brosh of Hyperbole and a Half!
This particular drawing has rendered itself somewhat momentous to me, because at the time that my utterly lovely, patient, saint-like commissioner requested it I was seized with SO MANY visions of how to accomplish it, and drove myself crazy trying to do justice to the mythos of the situation and the very unique relationship between Loki and Sigyn that can be inferred from the glimpses of her we still have. In the end I was struck most deeply by the phrase used to describe Loki as “the burden of Sigyn’s arms”, which brought to mind a very specific sort of temperance and strength not necessarily wrought in muscle, but unwavering loyalty.
Our Stories of Strength has issued a call for submissions to solicit stories for a forthcoming anthology called Living with Fibromyalgia (Fibrostrong). The editors need first and second person nonfiction (true) stories that connect emotionally and thoughtfully with other people living with FB and inspire them to transcend the diagnosis and embrace living passionately and actively.
Holding the Bowl 