Maeve

I couldn’t get away.

maybe California shouldn’t have a 3-5 YEAR waitlist for section 8/Housing Choice Vouchers housing?

I live in a deep red state and it’s that wait, or more, here, and I believe it’s a lottery system, at that.

Why not both, simultaneously?

Damn. I’m sorry. I hope you find healing for that, expeditiously.

+1 for user name.

Holy cannoli squid, don’t do that to your kid.

The poetry is fantastic! Thank you for posting it.

This made me literally laugh aloud.

Yes.

M4A means savings for individuals, providers and the government, as well as employers. It’s not only the compassionate option, but the sensible one.

TIL Marvel is maga.

Sounds like you could make some homemsde,l with neighbors,outside, with an old-fashioned, hand -cranked maker, recruiting different neighbor kids to sit on top of the towel, to keep the ice in the tub

That’s a victim/lack mentality. And life will continue to suck as long as you continue to wallow in it. I guess I would know, since I stayed in it for decades. I got tired of it enough that I went into therapy for another decade, longer if you count the off and on. After I couldn’t afford a good therapist, I had a nde due to a physical assault, which led to a complete ego death, and that can only go three ways: flight it and end up institutionalized or on the streets; surrender into it and do the work to come out better, surrender into it, then get arrogant again and life starts sucking again. Your choice.

Of course none of that needed to happen, if I’d had good, consistent therapy available on a continuing basis, or effectively learned some of the other techniques Iike replacing negative self talk with encouraging and empowering self talk, self soothing, self nurturing.

In the end, the choice is yours: get sicker and life gets worse; or do the necessary hard work to get better, and realize it will also suck, for a time, be patient, with others and yourself, have a daily gratitude practice. Either way, no one’s coming to save you, since no one can save you but you. And that’s not going to happen until you decide your actually worth doing all that hard, dirty work, for as long as it takes.