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Dr Maddie Smith

@drmaddiesmith.bsky.social
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🔥Healing is revolutionary. ⚡️Breaking cycles of pain-passing: personal, generational, systemic & global. ⚡️Knowledge • self-inquiry • embodied healing • narrative transformation. ⚡️Be the change. Build the new world. 🌎 Vigilantenation.com

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Dr Maddie Smith @drmaddiesmith.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Inner voice sometimes feel more like your worst enemy than your best friend? In this article I discuss the early roots of self-criticism & its impact on the nervous system. #painpassing #selfdirectedpain #selfcriticism #selfgrowth #workingwithyourwounds vigilantenation.com/2026/02/17/h...
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Self-Criticism: Where Does It Come From? - Dr Maddie Smith
Harsh self-criticism doesn’t come out of nowhere. It forms through early relationships, threat-based nervous system patterns, and culture.
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Dr Maddie Smith @drmaddiesmith.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Fed up of feeling like your own worst enemy? Join me this week as I explore Harsh Self-Criticism - starting with... What Is It, Really? #selfcriticism #workingwithpainbasedpatterns #selfdirectedpain #painpassing #selfhealing vigilantenation.com/2026/02/16/h...
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Harsh Self-Criticism: What Is It, Really? - Dr Maddie Smith
Harsh self-criticism feels like “the truth,” but it’s actually a learned inner threat response that fuels shame, stress, and self-doubt.
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Dr Maddie Smith @drmaddiesmith.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Pain isn’t just yours - sometimes it’s passed down. Critical parents, bullying, being unheard… it can show up inside us or directed at others. The good news? You can stop the chain. Awareness + conscious choice = freedom. #PainPassing #Healing #SelfAwareness vigilantenation.com/2025/07/21/p...
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Pain-Passing: How We Inherit Pain and Pass It On - Vigilante Nation
Unpack “pain-passing” - the unconscious transmission of unresolved hurt - and learn how to break generational patterns to stop pain-passing.
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Trixie ☕︎ @dixie13.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
#booksky
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Three reasons why a walking tour is the best way to discover a new city.
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Take a walking tour to discover a new city
Three reasons why a walking tour is the best way to discover a new city
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
61 years ago today, the Klan murdered three civil rights workers in Mississippi. One of them was a childhood friend. I'd like to share what he meant to me. youtu.be/u-kv3wdqqNo?si=Zc3Uh-CJOcO…
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When the KKK Murdered My Childhood Friend | Robert Reich
As the shortest kid in school, I was an easy target for bullies. When I was about eight, I befriended a kind teenager wh
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I’ve been in politics for over a half-century. I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system. It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people. youtu.be/sP0pRIBRcDk?si=o8uynfvuoVh…
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The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out of It | Robert Reich
I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations ransacked our system. In 1952,
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trumpwatchdog.bsky.social @trumpwatchdog.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Imagine how different things would be if we all lived by this one simple rule. Be excellent to each other. Every day. No exceptions.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
...it concluded since the landslide was triggered by the melting glacier, and since *that* happened due to rising global temperatures... This was a signal - and a warning - from our rapidly changing world, heard in every single part of it. Best we listen up. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 10/
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A rockslide-generated tsunami in a Greenland fjord rang Earth for 9 days
Climate change is increasingly predisposing polar regions to large landslides. Tsunamigenic landslides have occurred recently in Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat), but none have been reported from the east...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
What we see in the UK today, and around the world, is a truth many people are reluctant to recognise: Centralised, hierarchical political systems are innately undemocratic, regardless of who is in charge. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Feeling the urge to take back control from power-mad governments? Here’s an idea | George Monbiot
We are told governing systems like ours are inevitable and irreplaceable, but real, participatory democracy is possible, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Immigration is good. Immigration makes Britain better. Immigration is the lifeblood of any and every successful society. Without Immigration Britain cannot prosper. Without Immigration you cannot have the economy and society you want. That is all.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This kid runs circles around the reporter
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Dr Maddie Smith @drmaddiesmith.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Need little healing and peace right now? I just uploaded my first ever workshop: If you're feeling a little overwhelmed by all the pain and suffering out there this might be just what you need. youtu.be/xxbkDJu-Xkw?...
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A Vigilante Nation Transmutation Workshop for Pain Alchemy and Global Healing - May 9th
YouTube video by Vigilante Nation
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🔥 Despite Reform’s surge, the overall swing in local elections in the East of England region was towards the broad left. Don’t let the media noise fool you. The right didn’t advance - it fragmented. Here’s how...
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The right is not rising in the East
Reform may have seized the Conservatives’ mantle in the local elections, but this is not a rise of the right in the East
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 01/05/2025
Migration Matters Festival: 10 years strong Sheffield’s Migration Matters Festival marks 10 years with a bold celebration of culture, community, and refugee resilience By Freya Ingram @freyaingjourno.bsky.social
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Migration Matters Festival: 10 years strong
Sheffield’s Migration Matters Festival marks 10 years with a bold celebration of culture, community, and refugee resilience
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Class Warfare is when top 1% uses the media to instruct you that a slight tax increase on the top 1% is Class Warfare.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
How you can make an impact in the fight against climate change – every effort helps!
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Fighting climate change – make an impact!
How you can make an impact in the fight against climate change – every effort helps!
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 26/04/2025
imo attempts to stratify class distinctions based on the physicality of one’s labor misses the forest for the trees. prole and bourgeois no longer work. at this point in the game, there is the 1% and there is everyone else. the 99% need to be a united front against the 1%.
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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Contemplate the incredible vastness of space with this visualization of the size of our Milky Way galaxy. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Dr Maddie Smith @drmaddiesmith.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
No, you’re not fine just the way you are: time to quit your pointless job, become morally ambitious and change the world www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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No, you’re not fine just the way you are: time to quit your pointless job, become morally ambitious and change the world
Most working people can be put into one of three categories, from idealistic yet unambitious to greedy and immoral. But there is another option …
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Dr Maddie Smith @drmaddiesmith.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
US philanthropists warn against capitulating to Trump: ‘We need to step up’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US philanthropists warn against capitulating to Trump: ‘We need to step up’
Foundation leaders say charitable organisations could be next in the firing line – but must ‘stand together’ to resist
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
You have to read this article. "The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants." By @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Found View @foundview.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Paris #photography #blackandwhite
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𝑀𝒶𝓎𝓇𝒶°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:・🫧 @lepapillonblue.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Inside Notre-Dame de Paris, France. Have a lovely day, BlueSky! 🤍
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes per year — enough to end homelessness, hunger, and pay for universal childcare. 👆🏻 This is the crime wave we should be talking more about.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
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Dr Maddie Smith @drmaddiesmith.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
There are some crayfish souls, forever scuttling backwards into the darkness. (Victor Hugo)
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 14/04/2025
The EU has announced a new three-year financial support package for Palestine worth up to €1.6 billion. jrnl.ie/6678199
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EU announces €1.6 billion in new financial aid for Palestine
The EU is looking to boost the Palestinian Authority as Israel has battered Gaza despite a ceasefire deal that was supposed to be in place.
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lazuleo.bsky.social @lazuleo.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Mediazona—fearless, independent media, banned by the Kremlin for telling the truth. Founded by my comrade @nadyariot Pussy Riot. They’re on the brink—cutting staff, slashing pay, fighting to survive. Support truth: donate.zona.media/en
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Dr Maddie Smith @drmaddiesmith.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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Dr Maddie Smith @drmaddiesmith.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Resistance isn't crushed by power alone. It is crushed when people believe resistance is futile.
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🌺🌺 Cynbad 🌺🌺 @cyynbadd.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I believe!
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Dr Maddie Smith @drmaddiesmith.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Reality Survival Kit: How to spot fake news and think critically vigilantenation.com/2025/02/09/r... #fightback #misinformation #criticalthinking #resources
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Reality Survival Kit: How to Spot Fake News & Think Critically - Vigilante Nation
This guide provides practical tools and techniques to help you think critically, analyze news sources, and protect yourself from deception.
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Dr Maddie Smith @drmaddiesmith.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
My friends, please remember this: The goal of authoritarianism is to make you feel small, helpless and overwhelmed. It wants you paralysed by fear so that you submit before the real fight even begins. That's the trap. But history has shown, time and time again, that even the most brutal.. (1/3)
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Mark @mark-melbin.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The problem that led to two Trump wins and Brexit is misinformation. The solution to winning the information war is to educate children about misinformation and critical thinking. Trump and Putin fear education. Finland is miles ahead of the curve. edition.cnn.com/interactive/...
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Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy
Russia's neighbor has developed a plan for countering misinformation. Can it be exported to the rest of the world?
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This is a great piece. "As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."
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How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood
Here’s a step-by-step guide.
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Dr Maddie Smith @drmaddiesmith.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Thoughtful piece from Ed Davey in today's Guardian. Elon Musk has shown his hand. If politicians like me won’t curb his malign powers, who will? | Ed Davey www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Elon Musk has shown his hand. If politicians like me won’t curb his malign powers, who will? | Ed Davey
It’s the job of democracies around the world to stand strong together and hold oligarchs and their platforms to account, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
1/7 🔭 🧪 An international research team, led by the University of Cambridge, has discovered a dormant overmassive black hole (BH) in the early Universe using JWST. ➡️ www.cam.ac.uk/research/new... Image: illustration of a BH during one of its short periods of rapid growth. Credit: Jiarong Gu ⤵️
The image is an artist's impression depicting a black hole during one of its short periods of rapid growth.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever." - Carl Sagan, in Cosmos (1980) Visualisation of our galactic cluster 💫😲💫✨💫🌌💫 NASA
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Paul @fucktheracists.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
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Dr Maddie Smith @drmaddiesmith.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
He's back! And so is she. Come with me on a journey through TVs most unexpected and compelling coupling into the murky depths of violent traditions, vigilantism, pain-passing, and generational trauma. vigilantenation.com/2024/12/15/t... #dexteroriginalsin #dexter #buffythevampireslayer
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The Slayer and the Serial Killer - Vigilante Nation
Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Dexter: Original Sin. Buffy Summers. High school student by day, vampire slayer by night. Dexter Morgan. A serial killer/vigilante who moonlights as a forensic detective...
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Dr Maddie Smith @drmaddiesmith.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
✨️Embrace magic in the everyday✨️ Transform ordinary moments into opportunities for growth & enlightenment! Try one of these practices today & watch as your life sparkle with newfound insight & purpose. #alchemy #selfhealing #magic #journaling #meditation #wellbeing #transformation #selfempowerment
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Eleven Films @elevenfilms.com · 04/12/2024
This is HUGE! The Safe Choice Network of physicians provide safe, effective and affordable medication abortion services NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE IN THE US! Visit: www.asafechoicenetwork.com Please share: #ASafeChoice 🦋
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Dr Maddie Smith @drmaddiesmith.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
'The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.' - William James
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Dr Maddie Smith @drmaddiesmith.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
We disempower ourselves in so many ways, often without realising it! When we return our focus within instead of without, we can shift ourselves from disempowerment to empowered! 💥It's time to reclaim your power and ignite your potential 💥 #disempowerment #empowerment #agency #healing #sourcenergy
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Dr Maddie Smith @drmaddiesmith.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
When we take the time to turn inward and nurture our emotional wounds, the healing frees up a burst of life force energy that we can channel into world building. What world do you want to build for yourself? 🌎 (I'd like a world with more compassion and less pain-passing.) #emotionalhealing #agency
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