Rest and self care are so important. When you take to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.
Eleanor Brown (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
A true Bed-Game.
A true Bed-Game.
- by AlexGodOfMischief, Sep 22, 2012, 9:20:41 PM
“Ohh you little….”
Loki quickly held her arm and brought her closer to tickle her.
“Prepare for your end, woman.. ” He said in a severe but fun tone. The golden silk sheets flying around as both, wife and husband, played their silly game.
Sigyn squealed and giggled adorably as she tried to escape her husbands tickling-wrath.
“Hehehehe!”
Those sounds melted his heart, making him grin and squeeze her body in an affectionate hug.
“It is not good to kill your husband with your adorability, did you know that?” He said kindly, touching her nose with his.
She shut her eyes and grinned as she embraced him. She had missed these moments; and had always wanted Loki to stay with her and be like this forever.
“But it’s fun,” she said making a mock-frown.
“Oh, is it?” A gentle kiss on her lips and then Loki put one of his arms behind his head, giving space on his chest for his wife to rest her head. With his other slim hand, he stroke her neck and collarbones. Such a delicate skin and figure, everything about her amazed him. And so they stayed..
Watch Nyle DiMarco’s visit to the Gallaudet University Homecoming at NYLON.
(Nyle graduated from Gallaudet University with a degree in Mathematics.)
Mental Illness Plushies: Real Monsters Come to Life!
The Monsters are GO! And ready to scuttle into your homes + hide under the duvets with you.
Help Larissa Beat Terminal Cancer
Some of you know Larissa, some of you don’t. For those of you who don’t, what you need to know is that this world needs her. This is her story and why she needs your help.
Larissa is a young, charismatic, adoring, extraordinary, and very younique single mother of Violet. She is no stranger to hardship, pain and disease. In fact, Larissa has had and beat cancer twice. She is and has always been a fighter.
Just as Larissa cusped adulthood, she would begin her career as a fighter. Not the kind who wins belts, sees her name in the paper or faces an adversary of equal weight and size; but a fighter who learned quickly, the value of life and each inherent breath. At age 19, Larissa began her 2 year battle with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. With unfettered tenacity and courage, she brawled and beat it. But this wouldn’t be her final or easiest fight
15 years later, as a new mother, Larissa would find a lump in her breast. With the support of her family (former husband, stepkids, and Violet) she would endure several rounds of chemotherapy and radiation, but the battle would wage on and on. After many rounds of chemotherapy and radiation, Larissa bravely opted for a double masectomy, more radiation, underwent almost a dozen reconstructive surgeries, and watched as the foundation of her family began to crumble around her.
In the next years, she recovered as her marriage fell apart, she healed from her radiation burns, multiple surgeries and chemo treatments. Attempting to embrace life alone with her sweet Violet, she actively worked toward strengthening her ravaged body by taking up Krav Maga, finding financial footing, and establishing mental peace in her new life.
Five or six months ago, Larissa started becoming concerned that she was feeling overly tired again. She began experiencing unexplained pain in her body. She seemed to not be able to keep up at her Krav Maga classes like she used to. Blood tests revealed little, however, a trip to the ER this past Thursday 11-19-15, revealed that Larissa isn’t just fighting breast cancer again. Her oncologist is 95% sure that this is Terminal Mestatic Breast Cancer.
When the medical community says that cancer is TERMINAL, it means they do not have effective, approved medical answers to fight or cure a disease, but it does not mean that there are no other means by which to fight. Larissa is not ready to give up. She is not willing to die and leave Violet alone. Neither insurance, nor her meager income will allow for her to afford a nonconventional medical fight for her life. We, her friends and family, are asking for your help to give her a chance to beat this, to fight for life, for time with Violet.
We are asking for support so that Larissa can receive nonconventional medical treatment and not have to stress about making ends meet while she battles to survive. Most of all, we are asking for peace of mind and a quality of life for her during this time. Thank you for your help, love, support and many prayers.Update: Larissa is currently in the hospital with fluid on her lungs. The need for help is emergent
Are You Dissociating?
Dissociating is one of the most common responses to abuse and trauma. It involves feeling numb, detached or unreal and (while it happens to everyone once in a while) is experienced more frequently and severely in survivors. Dissociating people vary widely in symptoms and may experience any or all of the things from the following list.
You may be dissociating if you:
- find yourself staring at one spot, not thinking anything
- feel completely numb
- feel like you’re not really in your body, like you’re watching yourself in a movie.
- feel suddenly lightheaded or dizzy
- lose the plot of the show or conversation you were focused on
- feel as if you’re not quite real, like you’re in a dream
- feel like you’re floating
- suddenly feel like you’re not a part of the world around you
- feel detached and far away from other people, who may seem mechanical or unreal to you
- are very startled when someone/something gets your attention
- completely forget what you were thinking just a moment ago
- suddenly cover your face or react as if you’re about to be hurt for no reason
- can’t remember important information about yourself, like your age or where you live
- find yourself rocking back and forth
- become very focused on a small or trivial object or event
- find that voices, sounds or writing seem far away and you sometimes have trouble understanding them.
- feel as if you’ve just experienced a flashback (perhaps rapidly) but you can’t remember anything about it.
- perceive your body as foreign or not belonging to you
(likes and reblogs always taken as support)
To my anon asking about dissociation. I hope you see this.
I thought dissociation was only when I have straight up out of body experiences turns out I’m dissociated like 99% of the time lmso
As it turns out, I dissociate rather a lot. Mostly when I’m stressed, but also because of exhaustion or pain. Too bad the latter two are pretty much standard operating procedure for me.
jfc I must dissociate like 90% of the time
Actually the other day I had an interesting period of derealisation, I still can’t work out what made me have that “is this a dream, I can’t tell” thing going on, whether it was a smell or the way the light was falling or what. I felt completely disconnected temporally. As if I could be walking my dog for a hundred years.
Of course maybe I’d accidentally stepped into Alfheimr for a moment, and time really WAS meaningless.
Holding the Bowl 