A stay-at-home mom in her mid thirties going through some sort of crisis. I've changed greatly over the past few years, changing my views on everything from politics to religion. I have fibromyalgia, degenerative disc disease and arthritis, so that sucks. Looking for answers on pain management and figuring out who the hell I am.
One Bored Mother
Those annoying fruit stickers can, apparently, be quiet informative:
- A 4-number code denotes conventionally-grown fruits and vegetables (pesticides used);
- A 5-number code beginning with 8 means, organic or not, the fruit or vegetable was genetically modified (GE or GMO);
- And a 5-number code beginning with 9 means the fruit was organically grown without genetic modification.
(Source: nirvikalpa, via wordslessspoken)
Picture of the Day. An Iranian woman holds up her hands painted with a gender equality slogan. Unknown date.
Hope you all had a lovely International Women’s Day!
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Struggling with one’s own shadow self, facing interior conflicts and moral failures, undergoing rejections and abandonment, daily humiliations, experiencing any kind of abuse or your own clear limitations, even accepting that some people hate you: All of these are gateways into deeper consciousness and the flowering of the soul. These experiences give us a privileged window into the naked now, because impossible contradictions are staring us in the face. Much-needed healing, forgiving what is, weeping over and accepting one’s interior poverty and contradictions are normally necessary to invite a person into the contemplative mind.
In facing the contradictions that we ourselves are, we become living icons of both/and. Once we can accept mercy, it is almost natural to hand it on to others. You become a conduit of what you yourself have received.
”(Source: wordslessspoken)
(via dancingdakini)
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Fortunately, my boys’ schools have been great in supporting their IEPs. I know that is not the case for everyone. This is a great article on how to advocate for your child with special needs.
I guess I’m one of the few women that get the Betty Draper. I actually empathize with the character. I do not believe we cannot hold a sixties housewife to our 21st century standards.
I think her plight particularly stands out to me because I just recently left a religious sect that was still stuck in the sixties concerning the rights and the treatment of women. It feels painfully real to me at times.
(Source: sunneinsplendour)
If you or a loved one lives with chronic pain, please read “The Spoon Theory.” If you aren’t a reader, she has a video clip of her reading the theory on her page “But You Don’t Look Sick.”
It was the first time I felt like someone out there really got what it was like to live with chronic pain. It is an excellent way to explain it to others. I still remind my husband of the spoon theory from time to time.
