#Social Wellness

[wellnessscommunity]

New Ways of Fatherhood Improving Friendships and Mental Wellness

Today is International Men's Day, a time to acknowledge and celebrate the journeys, contributions, and challenges men face. Among these experiences, fatherhood is profound and changes a man's life in many ways. In addition to the great joy and responsibility, the arrival of fatherhood brings new challenges that ripple through various lifelines, including friendships and mental wellness.

Along with sleepless nights and demanding schedules comes the change in social dynamics, which demands a balance to ensure one's mental well-being is not affected. As much as one hears about the baby and father bonding, the subtle yet transforming impact of fatherhood on male friendships and mental health is a story equally vital to be told and celebrated on a day like this.

Fatherhood shifts social relations because many friendships were based on getting together spontaneously or staying up late. Though that can strain friendships initially, it also opens the door for deeper, more meaningful relationships.

Studies demonstrate that a heightened emotional intimacy can be found within fathers at the same stages of life, such as fatherhood. This can be due to parenting experience: from sharing triumphs to facing parenting frustrations, providing a ground to work from on empathy and mutual understanding. These emotional bonds frequently form a recreated friendship based upon commonalities and mutual support.

Traditionally, in society, societal expectations discourage men from expressing themselves emotionally in friendships, but fatherhood often breaks this notion because care for the child requires some level of vulnerability. This vulnerability transcends and can be extended to friendships. From this perspective, there is a willingness for more fathers to share their thoughts, counselling, and what they go through in life with their male friends to build the essential emotional strength in the friendships.

This new trend in emotional openness is vital to mental health. Research shows that men who have close friendship relationships are best at dealing with stress, anxiety, and depression. Shared fatherhood experiences can create camaraderie essential for emotional expression as long as they create inner strength to help the child handle life's demands.

Fatherhood is a challenging journey of stress, sleepless nights, and occasional moments of self-doubt. However, friendships can provide insulation from these pressures; they offer a safe space for fathers to decompress as they share experiences. Scientific facts often claim that frequent social interactions with friends stimulate the production of endorphins, natural body chemicals that help overcome mental stress, thus strengthening mental well-being.

Furthermore, relationships built on trust and mutual knowledge motivate men to seek help when needed. This is particularly essential in combating the stigma around mental health issues. Dads with healthy social connections pursue activities like therapy or mindfulness to advance their general mental well-being.

Peer networks help fathers cope with parenting issues. Fathers can connect with other fathers through local groups, internet forums, or casual meetings, sharing their problems and experiences with others and promoting learning and growth for fathers who might otherwise feel secluded in this journey.

A study on male friendships highlighted the importance of shared experiences in building trust and camaraderie. For the fathers, a shared journey would involve discussing parenting strategies, work-life balance, and personal aspirations. These foster friendships, lead to belongingness and purpose and support good mental health.

Friendship dynamics change with the growth and change in responsibilities for children. Fathers often reconnect with old friends, form new bonds, or reshape their social circles as they grow and adapt to the responsibilities of fatherhood. This flexibility expresses male friendships' resilience through life's transitions.

Fathers may also become close friends with their children's friends' parents, opening their social scope. Such relationships often bring diversity and new avenues of growth for personal development and widen their social life and mental well-being.

Fatherhood touches not just the man's external relations but also his self-perception. Parenting clarifies what is important, what one values, and what one wants to achieve in life. This helps in better friendships based on the authenticity and purpose of such bonds.

Furthermore, the emotional maturity gained from becoming a dad can also be transferred to other relationships. Fathers are more tolerant, understanding, and supportive. These qualities make better teammates, friends, or even siblings.

There is a deliberate balance that must be struck between fatherhood and friendships. Regular catch-ups, an open line of communication, and intentional, meaningful interactions help cultivate close relationships that fathers desire. Some activities can include group outings, fitness sessions, or even virtual meetups to strengthen relationships despite hectic schedules.

Consciousness in an activity and relationship encourages healthy relationships. This way, the father is more present and involved in interaction, creating an environment of connection and mutual understanding that deepens friendships and improves mental well-being.

The Wellness Community of India (WCI) is an organisation that shows the importance of organisations' connections in holistic wellness. WCI helps fathers and their communities lead healthy lives by offering avenues for cooperation and emotional support.

Fatherhood is an experience that transforms and redefines not only a man's role in his family but also how he relates to others and his mental health. The journey enables fathers to extend friendships, engage in emotional openness, and prioritise well-being. With the reprioritisation of a strong peer network and intentional efforts, fathers are better equipped to manage parenthood while building meaningful relationships that add to their richness of life.

Recognising mental health will recognise a culture that recognises and supports children's fathers as they navigate the parenting journey toward stronger families and healthier communities.

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In the fast-paced world we live in, where the demands of work, family, and social commitments often leave us feeling overwhelmed and drained, maintaining a healthy lifestyle can seem like an insurmountable challenge. The allure of the couch, the endless stream of notifications on our devices, and the sheer exhaustion we feel at the end of a long day can easily derail our best intentions to…

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[defleftist]

Thrilled to see someone carrying on the tradition of protest folk music. Keep fighting the good fight!

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF movie Mike meets Jeremy Fitzgerald

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

Hot take: I actually think men and women are meant to work together and complement each other and not like,,, dislike each other and be divisive.

[inkskinned]

the thing about art is that it was always supposed to be about us, about the human-ness of us, the impossible and beautiful reality that we (for centuries) have stood still, transfixed by music. that we can close our eyes and cry about the same book passage; the events of which aren't real and never happened. theatre in shakespeare's time was as real as it is now; we all laugh at the same cue (pursued by bear), separated hundreds of years apart.

three years ago my housemates were jamming outdoors, just messing around with their instruments, mostly just making noise. our neighbors - shy, cautious, a little sheepish - sat down and started playing. i don't really know how it happened; i was somehow in charge of dancing, barefoot and laughing - but i looked up, and our yard was full of people. kids stacked on the shoulders of parents. old couples holding hands. someone had brought sidewalk chalk; our front walk became a riot of color. someone ran in with a flute and played the most astounding solo i've ever heard in my life, upright and wiggling, skipping as she did so. she only paused because the violin player was kicking his heels up and she was laughing too hard to continue.

two weeks ago my friend and i met in the basement of her apartment complex so she could work out a piece of choreography. we have a language barrier - i'm not as good at ASL as i'd like to be (i'm still learning!) so we communicate mostly through the notes app and this strange secret language of dancers - we have the same movement vocabulary. the two of us cracking jokes at each other, giggling. there were kids in the basement too, who had been playing soccer until we took up the far corner of the room. one by one they made their slow way over like feral cats - they laid down, belly-flat against the floor, just watching. my friend and i were not in tutus - we were in slouchy shirts and leggings and socks. nothing fancy. but when i asked the kids would you like to dance too? they were immediately on their feet and spinning. i love when people dance with abandon, the wild and leggy fervor of childhood. i think it is gorgeous.

their adults showed up eventually, and a few of them said hey, let's not bother the nice ladies. but they weren't bothering us, they were just having fun - so. a few of the adults started dancing awkwardly along, and then most of the adults. someone brought down a better sound system. someone opened a watermelon and started handing out slices. it was 8 PM on a tuesday and nothing about that day was particularly special; we might as well party.

one time i hosted a free "paint along party" and about 20 adults worked quietly while i taught them how to paint nessie. one time i taught community dance classes and so many people showed up we had to move the whole thing outside. we used chairs and coatracks to balance. one time i showed up to a random band playing in a random location, and the whole thing got packed so quickly we had to open every door and window in the place.

i don't think i can tell you how much people want to be making art and engaging with art. they want to, desperately. so many people would be stunning artists, but they are lied to and told from a very young age that art only matters if it is planned, purposeful, beautiful. that if you have an idea, you need to be able to express it perfectly. this is not true. you don't get only 1 chance to communicate. you can spend a lifetime trying to display exactly 1 thing you can never quite language. you can just express the "!!??!!!"-ing-ness of being alive; that is something none of us really have a full grasp on creating. and even when we can't make what we want - god, it feels fucking good to try. and even just enjoying other artists - art inherently rewards the act of participating.

i wasn't raised wealthy. whenever i make a post about art, someone inevitably says something along the lines of well some of us aren't that lucky. i am not lucky; i am dedicated. i have a chronic condition, my hands are constantly in pain. i am not neurotypical, nor was i raised safe. i worked 5-7 jobs while some of these memories happened. i chose art because it mattered to me more than anything on this fucking planet - i would work 80 hours a week just so i could afford to write in 3 of them.

and i am still telling you - if you are called to make art, you are called to the part of you that is human. you do not have to be good at it. you do not have to have enormous amounts of privilege. you can just... give yourself permission. you can just say i'm going to make something now and then - go out and make it. raquel it won't be good though that is okay, i don't make good things every time either. besides. who decides what good even is?

you weren't called to make something because you wanted it to be good, you were called to make something because it is a basic instinct. you were taught to judge its worth and over-value perfection. you are doing something impossible. a god's ability: from nothing springs creation.

a few months ago i found a piece of sidewalk chalk and started drawing. within an hour i had somehow collected a small classroom of young children. their adults often brought their own chalk. i looked up and about fifteen families had joined me from around the block. we drew scrangly unicorns and messed up flowers and one girl asked me to draw charizard. i am not good at drawing. i basically drew an orb with wings. you would have thought i drew her the mona lisa. she dragged her mother over and pointed and said look! look what she drew for me and, in the moment, i admit i flinched (sorry, i don't -). but the mother just grinned at me. he's beautiful. and then she sat down and started drawing.

someone took a picture of it. it was in the local newspaper. the summary underneath said joyful and spontaneous artwork from local artists springs up in public gallery. in the picture, a little girl covered in chalk dust has her head thrown back, delighted. laughing.

[akiiame-blog]

going back to a concept I've always loved personally; king boo possessing mario as a boss in luigi's mansion

[violetsandshrikes]

this poor woman ended up in hospital because she ate cayenne + cinnamon coated orange (unpeeled) because there’s a health and wellness influencer with millions of views who recommends it for digestion - she burned her oesophagus

i always saw a few really good other additions of similar things on the comments

please be so, so careful taking advice from these people online, as many of them are not formally trained or educated, brand ambassadors, deep in pseudoscientific rabbit holes and unfortunately, there are many out there who struggle with disordered eating habits

(not mentioned here but another one worth noting: i have personally known people who have burned their oesophagus with viral apple cider vinegar shots and drinks. don’t do that. a burned oesophagus is not fun)

[egophiliac]

Hello ! I positively adore the running joke of Idia unknowingly finding Lilia to be the coolest guy ever whenever he doesn't know it's him, like when Silver described his father, or obviously with muscle red. I can't say what'd be funnier, Idia finding out his online best friend is actually Lilia, resident spooky hyper fairy; or them both never finding out, and it'd become even more ridiculous as time goes on. How do you think it'll play out ? You're always so on point

(Also, though it makes sense, I'm still devastated bat boy didn't get a ticket for the Halloween skeleton train : ( does anyone mentions him at some point ? Like how he'd have fit right in with all those Halloween town little freaks, and how he'd have impressed them with his spooks and scared techniques; after all he's been every Briar Valley's children worst fear on Halloween for centuries. I'm on the eng server and I didn't wanna spoil myself by watching the whole thing on youtube)

Have a nice day !

you and me both, Idia and Lilia being oblivious online BFFs (+ Idia being incredibly intimidated any time Silver brings up his jock gamer dad) is my favorite running joke/subplot. 🤝 it's SO good, to the point where I also am unsure if I actually want it to ever be resolved or not...maybe, like, as a post-canon stinger or something? everyone's standing around covered in overblot ink, and Idia and Lilia's phones go off at the same time...

(legit I do think this is part of why Idia couldn't be present for Lilia's dream, because for some reason Lilia decided he was going to just. embody his past self online. he probably quotes his own battle strategies or whatever in the middle of boss fights. Idia didn't pick up on the whole "oh how weird that we both live on a super remote island" thing, but he would spend thirty seconds listening to General Lilia describing siege warfare and be like "w-wait")

all that aside, however it does end up happening, I do see Lilia being very blasé and all "oh! cool!" about it. y'know, taking it very much in stride! and Idia...very much not.

(can't tell if tumblr is going to chew this into illegibility or not, this will be a fun surprise ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ)

as for Lilia sadly missing out on Halloweentown shenanigans...he does get one little mention as part of an offhand reference to the light music club, but so far no one has brought up how this basically is just Lost In the Book of Liliatown (Sebek's been too busy yelling about not getting to be in the same group as Malleus). 😔 honestly though, it's probably for the best that he got left out, because he would just settle right in and refuse to ever leave. canon would shatter. we would miss out on all the delightful angst of episode 7 because Lilia is too busy eating poisonous shrubbery inbetween practicing his very best screams, and no one can pull him away from it.

(I can hope for a sequel next year though...)

[uhcasual]

All illustrations for The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Russian Edition Exclusives, Volume 5

Finally got my hands on the russian истари/Istari publication volume 5 for Mo Dao Zu Shi, so here are high resolution scans of the art exclusive to this particular edition. The art here portrays events that occur in the post-storyline extras.

Full resolution available for download here (tumblr compresses images a little)

Illustration Artist: Marina Privalova (Baoshan Karo)

[Vol. 1] - [Vol. 2] - [Vol. 3] - [Vol. 4] - [Vol. 5] (part 1)

[pangur-and-grim]

Belphie is a very accepting cat. I’ll carry him into situations, and he’ll be like “okay, I’m in this situation now. this is fine.”

this includes noisy family events, and drunken get togethers with my friends. he’s just a happy little barnacle sprouting out of whichever lap he’s been placed on.

[ancientbread]

The hunger games: capitalism pits individuals against each other in order to prevent us from uniting against the systems in power that maintain our oppression

teen dystopian YA for the next decade: light hair good boy 😍??? Or dark hair bad boy 🫣😈😈