TheMerMolly- she/her/mer

I’m so sleepy that I just called my phone case the “crust” of my phone. 🤦‍♀️

Pepto has been helping thankfully.

Oh no! Pizza is always a roll of the dice since I don’t have a gallbladder and my lactose intolerance impacts me sometimes with pizza. Tonight is a bad pizza night.

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Thank you!!!! It was so much fun!

This morning, it felt right to rotate my wrist. I did a slightly-more-firm-than-gentle clockwise rotation and my wrist popped six times! When I brought it down to center as the circle finished, it popped five more times!

Eleven pops and the swelling and tension began to release. Yay!

#chronicpain

A great audiobook is excellent company for dishes, laundry, and cleaning!

I LOVE B.A. Paris!

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#BookSky #WeekendCleaning

Nice!!

Thanks!!

Aww. Thank you! It’s such a rewarding hobby!

Ditto!!

I finished my embroidery of the Fall Floral Row! Aren’t the snails that I did today just the cutest??

This was a fun and challenging pattern. It had lots of my favorite techniques like French knots and woven roses. I enjoyed it so much!

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#embroidery

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Ina is lovely. I loved re-listening to her memoir on audiobook!

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#BookSky #audiobook

My cat is snoring.

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#cat #CatSky #CatsOfBlueSky

I am, too!!!! 💕💕💕

It’s Caturday! I think she’s waiting for the gorgeous little red-headed finch to come sit on the wreath. I hate to shoo it away but we don’t need a bird nest in the front door. 🤭

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#cat #CatSky #CatsOfBlueSky

I agree!

Starting off my morning with a lovely espresso brewed by Ross, my Evergreen candle, and Adrift! We were going to go cross country skiing today but decided to wait until tomorrow to see if my wrist hurts less then.

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#BookSky #coffee #candle #chronicpain @bluebookclub.bsky.social

You're feeling what you're feeling. It's okay. It doesn't make you "bad," or "weak," or "gross," or "ungrateful."

This feeling is hard enough, we don't need to spike how hard it is by denying & disowning it.

If you're reading this, you know someone who struggles with CPTSD or DID, whether you know it or not.

If you're reading this, the person in your life working their trauma recovery is facing demons & leveraging courage of a sort most humans can never imagine.

One of the most common things CPTSD survivors share is their utter shock & skepticism that what they endured actually qualifies as "trauma"-- even if they'd easily use that label to describe someone ELSE going through the exact same thing.

That "compartmentalization" thing that got so many trauma survivors through so much sh*t gets harder as we recover-- & that's actually good news. Mind you, it won't FEEL like "good news"-- but it means we're nudging toward integration, which is what true healing is all about.

Some people will make you feel stupid for "still" reacting to something that happened "so long ago"-- as if the damage CPTSD does only stems from what happened back then, & not the years of trying to cope & continue functioning SINCE then w/ inadequate support & care.

Disordred eating (& there are LOTS of survivors who struggle w/ eating who don't meet criteria for an "eating disorder") will try to convince you whatever you're struggling w/ will be "helped" by restricting, binging, or purging-- as if that's NOT just another way to control you?

Don't "fake it till you make it." Practice it until you get better at it. Your nervous system is malleable, changeable-- now, today, even after all you've been through. It WILL respond to consistent shifts in your self talk, mental focus, & breathing.

It will. You will.

Right???!!

Today marks one year of being on BlueSky. I had used other social media sites before and none of them felt like the right fit. I love the sense of quiet, calm, loving community I have found here on BlueSky. You are true friends, my dears! 💜

I have a reading buddy!

@bluebookclub.bsky.social #Booksky #cat

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Time to start reading Adrift! I’ve wanted to read it for about 8 years or so and am excited that it was our pick this month for the @bluebookclub.bsky.social!

I love when a book starts with a map.

This is the most thoughtful dedication ever.

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#BookSky

Yes!!!

Hehehe. I do too! She’s a VERY expressive kitty!