#soul health

[kmac4him1st]

https://thebridegroomscafe.com/soul-funk/ #ListenUp

Do you ever feel that restlessness in your soul that actually makes you feel grouchy with that “whatever” kind of attitude. The culture we live in has clashing tides. The incoming tide bounces against the outgoing tide and the current in the middle of this transition can be so very disturbing. We can get in an incredible “soul funk” when the old tide is going out and God is bringing in something new.  #Truth #Faith

[dyinggirldied]

Danny, burnout and exhausted of being the basically only one who can fight ghosts but still gets villainized and hated by the people he saved, decides he's done.

Because he's 14 he runs to another city, one where his parents and GIW cannot willy dilly do whatever they want. Yes, he runs to Gotham. Without telling anyone.

At Gotham, he ultilizes his intelligence in making fake ID and studies at a normal if a bit run down Gotham high school, not the fancy one where Tim or Damian is studying because 1) he's trying to lay low and 2) he hates the rich. He uses an old abadoned fire station as his home.

It's all fine and dandy. He doesn't need to intervene much since there are plenty of vigilantes in this city and he's free to just...focus. On himself, his education.

Meanwhile, Amity Park is literally and metaphorically under fire with his absence.

[whyamilikeiam]

What is Depression?

In the times of Dickens or Trollope, there was no mention of these emotional problems.  They were just trying to deal with living. Yet there were more early deaths then, than now. Families had to cope.  But still, depression was not part of their conversation.  Not for females, not for males.

Me? I've been through times of attempting suicide along with wishing to die at various times. So it is not that I don't understand.  Even so, we can learn stuff from those harsh Victorian times.  Boy, motivation was everything. That is what gives us hope and expectation.

So then, what if we don't have that in our lives?

And that is a starting point. Taken from my observations, my life experience, my scriptural understanding, this is my exposition on the subject.

I first tried to kill myself as a teenager, by taking, what I thought was poison - that's what the tablets said, if I took more than two.  So I did.  But guess what, I woke up the next morning.

I could go into details of my sin, my being found out, my fear of the outcome etc etc.  But the thing that allowed my wrong choices, along with my fear of consequences, to loom so large, was that lack of ability to communicate to wise and caring parents.  Hey, loads of us have been unwise and rather detached as parents, so I am not about to cast blame around.  I also look back on my childhood, and also my own failings as a parent, and see how the parent can unwittingly lack in the nurture of our children.  It is that attention and nurture that is needed, to produce confidence and motivation to treat the world as a place to explore and enjoy, and to see others as friends - not potential enemies.

OK, that was me then, and I also had other bouts that dogged me, but that's for later.

At a time of great upheaval, I started on the downward spiral, by this time I was in the middle east with my husband and 3 children. Thinking of dying to escape my feelings.  But I came across a book and it was just a secular book, but it spoke about those who have died, including those who have tried to take their own lives, but they came back to life, to earth.  And this particular book had effect on my thinking.  I stopped thinking I should take my own life.   So then I had to deal with life.  Fortunately, heavenly things were coming together to start a process in my thinking and in my life.  I was not backward in coming forward and I asked my friend if I could go to the Bible Study with her. [in the middle east - this was Sharjah - many nationalities came together as expats and she was part of a multinational, non-denominational Bible Study].  All good, but the main thing that was the instrument for change in my life, was a book called 'The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life. by Hannah Whitall Smith.  That was what I was looking for, a happy life.  And I was able to go further into my innate belief in a Creator God, and with the revelation and help of that book, I was on my way.

Things changed. A lot of my anger calmed down, and I was drawn to reading the Bible.  Over the years, I had to wrangle with my new age beliefs and the Old Testament values - that people still wrangle with today.  It was not quick, but once the Holy Spirit had been invited in, things started moving, including my growing understanding of Spiritual things.

Even so I still had some bouts of deep depression, usually precipitated by emotional challenges, involving other people.  You see, my childhood [and emotional family legacy] did not disappear. We live in this world, and have to deal with all that has gone before which forms our responses, including our inner pain.

I can point to a few major upsets that sent me spiralling down and even with my deep belief and faith in a Living, healing God, I still felt dogged in the soul - the soul is our inner person, our inner man.  How strong is our inner man, and what can we do with those heavy burdens?  Pilgrim's Progress speaks strongly to the searching: 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.He answered, Sir, I perceive by the book in my hand, that I am condemned to die, and after that to come to judgement [Heb. 9:27]

So in my last bout of depression - after my husband left - I started finding a way to keep my mind off my emotions.  Fortuitously a friend mentioned spoken word books.  That's what they were called more than two decades ago.  Now they are everywhere and YouTube is an amazing resource for audiobooks.

I had been listening to Christian teaching tapes all my Christian life, so I was ready to expand my listening.  I discovered all that was available in our local library on tape and CD [that was then!]. A wonderful modern day innovation to combat morbid thoughts!!  Yes, try it!  What a lovely freedom from soulish, miserable, depressive and destructive thinking, once I just let my mind become engrossed in novels.

I would recommend it to anyone, whatever your mindset, faith, emotional level. Just keep your mind engrossed. Do not let misery take you down into its depths!!

Just find the books you like, there are so many audiobooks of all genres available now. 

Just try it, and be set free from those bad and deluded thought spirits, messing up your life.

[matchstique]

[vongulli]

Doodles over the past bit!!! Wahoo!!!

[blood-starved-beast]

Obsessed with the way that Nemesis would steal your money, buy items or boons you might need, destroy doors to rooms where you might get a beneficial boon or item.

And the only way for this to not happen? You have to be better than her at it.

I've bought the items she'll be watching in Charon's shop (she's like "hey!") or run ahead and got into the room I wanted to before she has a chance to, or beat her at her wager. Mel has to be more an asshole towards her than she is towards Mel.

Literally kudos to Supergiant for making an actual nemesis out of Nemesis lmao.

[thepathetickind]

a thorn in my chest - perhaps I was the one who put it there,

by laurenmaerie, ‘to keep a piece’

[nemmet]

🪵🐓 i started playing stardew valley a couple of weeks ago and shane’s eight heart event changed me forever i think

[sunderwight]

Hualian Idol AU where instead of the statues the big reveal of Hua Cheng's longstanding amorous fixation on Xie Lian is all of his self-insert "my mom sold me to One Direction" style fanfics located in the depths of some boyband RPF archive.

[dailydiarynquotes]

[histhoughtslately]

When someone helps you…

[todayontumblr]

Monday, November 13.

World Kindness Day.

Well, would you look at that. This is no mere Monday, November 13, 2023. Nay, this is Monday, November 13, 2023: World Kindness Day. So if you've been quietly wondering if there would ever be the perfect day to do something kind, or find yourself, as if in a wholesome montage, looking to turn over a new leaf, then hey presto. Looks like today is your lucky day.

So what are you waiting for? Get out there, smell the flowers. Smile at an old person. Check in on someone that needs it. Volunteer at an owl sanctuary. Knit something warm and scrummy for a beloved. Say something kind to a stranger. Do some shopping for a neighbor in need. You know the drill.

Keep it kind—and keep it quiet. Love and kindness, Tumblr x

[selfhealingmoments]

[laniidae-passerine]

I don’t think Tashi’s look of disgust when Art kisses her knee is actually about him. It’s at herself. Their dynamic is so entirely shaped by power, by the fact that Art is lesser than her. She’s better at tennis, better at keeping her control, better at getting Patrick to fall into her bed. It’s the uncaring idol and the tortured devotee. Hell, it’s outright stated; she asks “what am I, Jesus?” and he says “yes” like it’s obvious. Even the way they sit in that scene shows how Tashi is a religion to him, kissing and bowed over her lap like in prayer. Which is why, to a woman who buys into that dynamic, who also thinks of herself as God to Art’s worshipper, it’s so disgusting that she truly does love him. Tashi adores him. Not even close to as much as she adores tennis, but she does. Right after that scene she goes and asks Patrick to throw the match - because if Art loses, she leaves him. And she doesn’t want to have to leave him. It goes against what she knows. God is not supposed to make sacrifices for mere mortals. Achilles is not meant to swoon at the soft weakness of his heel. But here she is, seeing the chip in her armour and thinking it lovely anyway. Hence the look.

[chialattea]

me after reading Kuma’s backstory🧍‍♀️👍 (ft quick Brook sketch lol)

[twelvelemons]