about to get into IFS stuff: Internal Family Systems.
I like this name SO much better than Inner Child!
so maybe I"ll add to this now & then..This post created 4-21-24
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addition: 5-17-24
So, I chickened out on IFS.
It's Big work, and scary, and created mental & emotional confusion, and even worse self-care than I usually exert.
There is a bunch of Stuff going on in my world and in my community of friends at this time:
- Hip replacement
- Cancer surgery: I'm not really supposed to know about it; friendship less than I assumed...
- Dying parent - just transferring to Hospice - sis of same friend seems to be losing battle with a brain tumor
- PTSD friend (in therapy) with big triggers
- Salon seems to be falling apart.
- Karaoke group expanding, changing, adding strangers.. (personal angst, not necessarily others' feelings)
- Atheism/religion - personal angst. How much can I say?
- Medical issues of my own
- Aging
- Political turmoil
- My remaining neuroses: procrastination being BIG right now.
- Stuff I probably can't even identify now...
will publish...and update periodically, maybe
I Could Weep: Arguments in Favor of a Human Extinction Event
The world is insane.
I think it might be endemic to the human species...not sure I'm using that word correctly..
I can't figure out if we can survive and/or overcome what we have become..this day is may 19, 2024.
And I think we (humans) have always been this way. survivalists. And I am afraid of the Survivalists living in my own town & forest.
Humans are (seem to be, to me) tribalists, racists, bigots, misogynists, patriarchal arrogant elitist SOBs.
I don't see any evidence of a trend for improvement. In fact, I believe that I could build a case for a long-term, consistent decline in human happiness, and in the qualities of fulfillment, relationships, personal integrity, focus...anything that might provide some reason that this species - human - should survive beyond the next 10-20 years.
We are destroying the planet; killing each other; and teaching our children to close their minds for one reason or another...imo, mostly religious ones.
Don't even get me started on that one... at least not tonight.
Posted by Kate on May 19, 2024 in Current Affairs, Journal , Social Commentary - Mine & Others' | Permalink | Comments (0)
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