As Much As I Do Love The ‘SpaceX Is Just Burning Money For No Reason, Elon Musk Is Personally Designing

Drive w/ DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) Books

I thought I’d share some DBT books that I’ve found in case anyone finds them useful! Click here for a small Drive folder of 8 books (will add more if I can find more or if anyone has recommendations!)

If you don’t know what DBT is: DBT stands for dialectical behavior therapy and was initially developed to treat borderline personality disorder (BPD), but has also been used for other mental illnesses. Personally, I’ve used DBT for anorexia, generalized anxiety disorder, depression, and OCD with therapists, so I know it’s at least used for those disorders. DBT was first developed by Marsha M. Linehan, a psychologist who has BPD herself, which I think is interesting and important since in my experience, it can be difficult to find clinicians who can actually relate to the experience of having a mental illness. One of the best things about DBT in my opinion is that you can do it yourself! My personal experience in DBT has mostly been as a patient in formal hospitalization or partial hospitalization settings, but it’s very adaptable, so I think it’s great if you are unable to access therapy or other resources.

There are four basic modules of DBT: mindfulness, which is based on accepting one’s present situation without judgement; distress tolerance, which focuses on developing skills to get through intense emotions or crises without resorting to self-destructive behavior; emotional regulation, which emphasizes recognizing and adjusting emotions; and interpersonal effectiveness, which focuses on communication skills with others. Personally, I find distress tolerance and emotional regulation the most helpful, but everyone’s different!

Lost and Found Library

Hey Tumblr, decided to share a fun google drive I have with you all. I came across a thumb drive full of ebooks maybe two years ago at college? And before turning it in, I converted all the files to a personal google drive. 

Let me know if this link still works, but have at it. I love the variety the OG owner accumulated in their library.

 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/138xQNM5WEJ4_YrlPY7-tYC1wr4hpFftX?usp=sharing 

andrea serio / belynda henry / charlotte mei / paul cox / roger mühl / jules de balincourt

and its free

legitimate fucking lifehack: discord server literally just for yourself to keep track of stuff over devices. links. reminders and checklists. all neatly divided into categories. search function and dates. why didnt i do this earlier oh my god.

The discovery of fossilized human footprints in White Sands New Mexico dating to 23,000 years ago is revolutionary for a lot of reasons and one really important one is that it thoroughly obliterates the settler colonial notion that the indigenous peoples of the America’s never had extensive contact with horses prior to the introduction of domesticated feral populations descended from the horses that came over with the Spanish in the 1400′s. It’s currently believed that horses went extinct in North America between 12,000 and 11,000 years ago which gives us an at least ten thousand year window where humans and horses coexisted in North America.

Tarot Inspired Journal Prompts

Fool: what is something new you are doing or want to do?

Magician: what is a magical way to enhance my day? Or, how can I be more like the magician?

High Priestess: what are my thoughts on divination? What about intuition?

Empress: what part of myself do I want to grow/nurture?

Emperor: what part of my life needs me to take authority? How can I?

High Priest: what are my personal traditions? How is my spirituality unique to me?

Lovers: what relationships mean the most to me?

Chariot: what part of my life needs me to be more combative/ warrior-like?

Strength: what part of my life should I face with courage?

Hermit: what do I need to do alone more often? What do I need to do with others more often?

Wheel of Fortune: what do I think about luck, fate, and/or fortune?

Justice: when do I need to focus on legality vs fairness? Or, What may cause me to seek justice/retribution?

Hanged Man: what have/will I sacrifice for -x-? What am I never willing to sacrifice? What will I easily give up?

Death: what is something personal I want to end or change? What is something that will end or change no matter how I feel? How can I accept it?

Temperence: what part of my life needs more patience? What part needs more balance? How can I achieve both?

Devil: what is a primal desire I have? Should I grant it to myself? Why or why not? How can I get what I want?

Tower: what can I learn from the current or recent chaos/disaster in my life?

Star: what do I hope for? How can I get it?

Moon: what part of my life is best kept private? Why?

Sun: what makes me happy?

Jusgement: what part of me needs reflection? What is a fair assessment of that part?

World: what parts of my life have been fulfilled? What parts are still lacking?

Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 the father of observational astronomy

So I've been meaning to start a german diary for a while now and I did it today after seeing this post (which is, funnily enough, a screenshot of a Tumblr post, which I couldn't find).

every writing tip article and their mother: dont ever use adverbs ever!

me, shoveling more adverbs onto the page because i do what i want: just you fucking try and stop me