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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Join me in saving lives this weekend: your action can enable brave, loving, struggling people to get the mental health support they need. #ToWriteLoveOnHerArms #SuicidePreventionWeekend give.twloha.com/LiveDammit
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Suicide Prevention Month 2026
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A book that I've eagerly been awaiting has just been released: Generation Regeneration, by Tony Cho. If you're interested in re-visioning cities and communities with less loneliness and isolation and more human connection, resilience, & green space, this is a can't-miss. bookshop.org/a/109848/979...
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Generation Regeneration: Codesigning the Future of Cities Through Regenerative Placemaking
Step into the world of Regenerative Placemaking In an era where concrete dominates and nature feels distant, regenerative placemaking is a movement transforming our cities and rekindling our connectio...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
What causes #loneliness? Disconnection, lack of deep purpose, separation from #nature - discover thought leaders taking creative steps for change at the #GenerationRegeneration summit, happening now! tinyurl.com/53pkx7w2
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Generation Regeneration Online Global Summit
Join the world's top regenerative leaders, urban innovators, and community builders for a free 3-day summit designed to help you reconnect with yourself, your place, and your people.
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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The state of humanity today: "It feels like a contradiction at the center of modern life: we experience profound environmental loss and largely pretend nothing is happening". #ClimateSky www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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We know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief?
In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these rituals
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Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox @revdrmatthewfox.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The N/S American genocide of indigenous peoples so often conducted as “you are not saved, we will save you” demonstrates Christendom's 4th-c link w/ empire which sent the church into “Christianity 2.0,” now showing its shadow side in “Christian nationalism,” MAGA et al. bit.ly/3RLeCqo
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Howard Thurman on Jesus & Resistance & a New World Order - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
In his two recent DMs, GG has lamented the small role religion plays in Europe today for those trying to imagine a more just future for humanity. He calls up the memory of the crusades, inquisitions, ...
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
#Reasonsforhope...
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We Are Crashing Into the Future (Or It Is Crashing Into Us)
The Autumn of the Patriarchs  One common and inaccurate picture of change assumes this thing so obvious, so potent in the present, will just continue to expand and the future will be like the present...
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
There may yet be hope... #pray #intend #visualize #affirm #domagic #lightacandle #writeyourlegislators #PhoneBank #savehealthcaresubsidies #savelives www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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4 Republicans defy Speaker Johnson to force House vote on extending ACA subsidies
Four centrist Republicans have broken with their party's leadership over health care. They've signed onto a Democratic-led petition that will force a House vote on extending for three years an enhance...
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Day 4 of #SpiritInAction: Stronger Together. CIVIC: Ask your group, school, or congregation to speak up for healthcare. SPIRITUAL: Hold a candlelight vigil, online or onsite. 1 action per day, multiplied by thousands. Download all 9 days: bit.ly/47GzDar #SaveTheACA #MedicaidMatters #PeopleOfGoodWill
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
#WhyDoesHealthcareMatterToMe? Family = microcosm of nat’l macrocosm: #cardiaccare, #eldercare, #genderaffirming & #chroniccare. Relatives will die w/o #accessiblehealthcare. #SaveACA #MedicaidMatters @repkweisimfume.bsky.social @alsobrooks.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @govwesmoore.bsky.social
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
9 Days to Save Healthcare Day 1 – Sound the Alarm 📞 Call your senators & reps: “No cuts to ACA or Medicaid. No one should lose care because Congress failed.” Pause — pray, visualize, or focus your intent. Care is sacred. Full 9 days: bit.ly/3Jk1W65 #SpiritInAction #SaveTheACA #MedicaidMatters
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
"Many [victims of #intangibletrauma] suffer fr #despair so profound they feel 'they might as well be dead.' Many battle... #anxiety, #depression, even #rage. Feelings of #dread, #panic & #exhaustion ...make everyday livng feel like tap-dancng in a minefield." ~ Ricia Fleming #CPTSD linkly.link/2FfBE
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No Sticks or Stones No Broken Bones: Healing cPTSD When the Trauma wasn't Physical
Healing cPTSD When the Trauma wasn't Physical
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
"Get curious about yourself & your experiences w/ [emotional] #dysregulation. #Neuroscience widely acknowledges that your incredible brain can change through simple #mindfulnesspractices." -- Danie Harris/Regulate Me Now bookshop.org/a/109848/979... #CPTSD #complextrauma #DBT #mentalhealth #selfcare
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Regulate me now: A go-to guide to self-soothe your Nervous System Dysregulation, calm chronic stress, anxiety, and CPTSD / complex trauma for immediate relief and ease
A go-to guide to self-soothe your Nervous System Dysregulation, calm chronic stress, anxiety, and CPTSD / complex trauma for immediate relief and ease
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
“If you want to get out of hell, you have to get #thruthefire to the other side. You’ve got to find courage to go thru your #anger, open up to your therapist, #keepgoing thru the #pain. It isn’t ovrnight that you are going to feel better. But you will.” #HealingJourney #DontGiveUp linkly.link/2FWDj
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
“We’re in such a #hurry most of the time we never get much chance to #talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondring years later where the time went & sorry it’s gone. ” ― R.M.Pirsig /Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance linkly.link/2FFeD
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Transformational morning reading from Rob Brezsny's book of magic, #Pronoia Is the Antidote for #Paranoia. Words to give #hope in these days. #joyisachoice #live linkly.link/2FBvi
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Like everyone else I've been moving thru stages of #anxiety, horror, & #grief, seeing the destruction of #democracy, a #socialsafetynet, or #environmentalprotection. But lately something has helped me to ground myself, take a deep breath, & put myself back together. #DivineLove linkly.link/2FE34
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
This. Powers-that-be that hold our gifts in scorn do not negate the value of those gifts. #YouAreIrreplaceable #AllBeingsHaveAPurpose
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I asked #DeenaMetzger, “Being sensitive to all you perceive, how do you not despair?” She said: “B/c...we are doing what we are called to do & that has to be sufficient. And because — I don’t want God to despair too.” #WeAffectTheWhole #DivineOneness #DivinityoftheSpeck #panentheism bit.ly/4nvdylT
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
"When you [grow up loved], you care for yrself in a way the unloved do not. Their addictions & destructive behaviors are searches for the feeling of being loved, a feeling they never had." -B.Siegel, fwd, "How I Stayed Alive When My Brain was Trying to Kill Me"/Susan Blauner linkly.link/2F9zF #Self💗
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
In this #SuicidePreventionAwareness Month, sharing my own story of #choosinglife, taking a step beyond the scars of #CPTSD with the imagery of #ProjectSemicolon. #StayHere #HealingIsPossible #PostTraumaticGrowth #EndStigma linkly.link/2F88U
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The Scar and the Semicolon - LIVEdammit
I remember when I first heard about Project Semicolon—the brave passion project of a woman who knew the call of the abyss. From the moment I learned her story, I resonated—both as a grammarian and a f...
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
"If you're a #survivor of #suicide loss... or if you want to walk alongside someone who has lost a loved one to suicide...As someone who has walked this dark night of the soul before you, this is what I want you to know: Don't give up. Don't *ever* give up." - Rita Schulte linkly.link/2F83O #HoldOn
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
"If we fail to let #pain be pain – and our entire #patriarchal culture refuses to let this happen – then pain will haunt us in nightmarish ways. We will become pain’s #victims instead of the #healers we might become." Matthew Fox / Original Blessing linkly.link/2F6F1 #PostTraumaticGrowth #StayHere
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
"Step out of your history & into the path of your #future.... the #pain was necessary...to know the #truth. But we don't have to keep the pain alive...to keep the truth alive." ~ Bruce D. Perry / What Happened to You? Conversations on #Trauma, #Resilience, & #Healing linkly.link/2F3Zf #TruthHeals
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Now more than ever. Speak up for transfolk. Be an ally, supporter, advocate, friend. Parents' resources: bit.ly/4mfLi58 Family & friends: bit.ly/3VOeqFK Youth resources: bit.ly/4ny1UWN and bit.ly/3ImNXfg @trevorproject.bsky.social #suicide prevention: bit.ly/47Idytx
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a butterfly with the words " trans rights are human rights "
ALT: a butterfly with the words " trans rights are human rights "
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
" #Suicide & its copilot, #depression, are mysterious...mystery is part of their power. Talking abt #mentalillness & suicide reduces their power. So I've raised my head as high as I am able, to speak as unflinchingly as I can abt losing my son..." #STAY Blackbird / BetsyStephenson linkly.link/2F0dx
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Blackbird: A Mother's Reflections on Grief, Loss, and Life After Suicide
A Mother's Reflections on Grief, Loss, and Life After Suicide
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” -- E.B. White
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The force of anti-life is the same. The only difference is how we respond: whether we are blinded & deceived, paralyzed & surrender, enraged & lash out — or whether we recognize the destroyer’s energy & resist, reaching for life & light. #SuicidePreventionAwareness #Stay linkly.link/2EtQd
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
"And there it is: the storm of #grief that you thought you cd never access or release, that resisted all your stories b/c it arises beyond all stories. The storm you feared b/c if you once allowed it, you feared it wd never end. It won’t last forever; it will end." #GriefStorm linkly.link/2EtPW
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
In #dialecticalbehaviortherapy ( #DBT), the balance is btw #change & #acceptance.... to change the behaviors in your life that are creating more suffering for yourself & others while...accepting yourself the way you are. #CPTSD Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Wkbk/MatthewMcKay linkly.link/2EqMa
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Indivisible Cortland County @indivisiblecortcty.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Excellent advice from Heather Cox Richardson. We don’t all have to do the same thing. BUT EACH OF US HAS TO DO SOMETHING!
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
"We were full of #love as newborns, &....the love w/in does not diminish. But we all lock much, or all, of this love away deep w/in us. We need to learn how to let it out....We learn to love fr each other." Love From Heaven: Practicing Compassion for Yourself & Others/Lorna Byrne linkly.link/2EcFN
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
"We want to #gohome. We want to find our #purpose, our right place, the right people to live & work w/, the right #work to do....We want to find our #spiritualroots. We want to learn to fly." ~ #MelodyBeattie/ Finding Your Way Home #YESquote #souljourney #recovery #innerpeace linkly.link/2EYrE
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
"We want to *go*home*...to find our purpose, our right place, the right people to live & work w/, the right work to do....We want to come into alignment w/ our highest good & destiny. We want to discover & live our soul's purpose." #MelodyBeattie/ Finding Our Way Home
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Learn to recognize the differences between PTSD and complex PTSD: the source of wound, emotional echo, self-image, relationship impact, coping mechanisms, and guiding beliefs. youtu.be/f7cF8yU2LjM?...
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6 CRITICAL Differences Between PTSD And CPTSD
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
“The world is increasingly designed to #depress us. #Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy w/ what we had, why would we need more?...To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business.” ― Matt Haig, Reasons to #StayAlive #UREnough linkly.link/2EWru
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
During morning centering, a thought came: #Depression is like #entropy —thoughts muddled, #purpose dissolving, #energy draining away. Turns out #brainentropy is real, and the #thermodynamic metaphor offers tools to cope. linkly.link/2ERF9 tinyurl.com/4ts3u6nf
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Ecotherapy...💛
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Seeking stories of #everydayheroism and #innerwork in healing from #abuse, #trauma, #addiction, & the #terror of our times. If you’ve chosen to carry on despite all odds—thanks to #courage, 🧡, or sheer #stubbornness —your story can inspire others. Hesitant? Editing/coaching available. DM me!
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🍐 A German grandmother creates a healing/social service community for Kathmandu's poorest. Over 20+ yrs they survive attacks, earthquakes, pandemic & US food aid cuts—yet keep planting fruit trees to give malnourished children fresh vitamins & fight climate change. Can you help? #Nepal #Resilience
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I'm honored to share the newest post on LIVEdammit - the inspiring story of Marianne Grosspietsch & the Shanti Leprahilfe community she founded to care for the "untouchable" poor in Kathmandu, Nepal. Enjoy...if you can, please consider contributing to Shanti's fundraising effort! linkly.link/2EEIF
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
September is #NationalSuicidePreventionMonth. Join with survivors, friends and families in an #OutoftheDarkness march near you! "Connection...to family & community support is one of the most important factors in reducing the likelihood of suicide." Learn more & sign up - linkly.link/2EBZB
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Allen Tien, MD, MHS mdlogix.com 94,698 田一彦 @allentien.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
#Suicidality rates of #SuicidePlans #SuicideAttempts #SuicideDeaths are major #PopulationHealth #Metrics as manifestations of underlying #CausalityCrisis #Mechanisms #Prevention #EarlyIntervention #Treatment #SharedFacts for #HumanReasoning #GoodPolicy #CollectiveBehavior #CommunityProsperity
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
"If you struggle to make #goodhabits stick, to find consistency, & to actually #feelgood in the process, you're not alone...I was you. But here's what I want you to know. You are not failing. You are not a #failure." ~The Feel Good Effect/Robyn Conley Downs #selfcompassion #YESquotes bit.ly/4mWwSYr
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The Feel Good Effect: Reclaim Your Wellness by Finding Small Shifts that Create Big Change
Reclaim Your Wellness by Finding Small Shifts that Create Big Change
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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Want to help support your Gen Z kids? Talking really helps
Today's teens struggle with big feelings — and their parents struggle to have hard conversations with them. A psychologist explains how to help your kids cope with pressure and stress.
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
"Your reactions to events & situations aren't random; they're controlled by your #emotionalintelligence ...Think of your #EI as a compass guiding you thru your day. Like a captain sailing a boat, you are the leader of your life. ~Abby Swift/A Tween Girl's Guide to Feelings & Emotions bit.ly/41kgwAy
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Politico @politico.com · 19/08/2025
With local public media stations on the brink of collapse followingTrump’s successful push to strip federal funding, the Public Media Bridge Fund hopes to raise $100 million over the next two years to keep local newsrooms alive.
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The scramble to keep public media afloat
The Public Media Bridge Fund hopes to raise $100 million over the next two years to support endangered newsrooms.
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
"For #aging, it's #rhythm that tunes up the brain...rhythm makes its presence known thru the spinal cord before it reaches the #brain, and before we're even aware of its presence." #ArtsForHealing #HealingArts #BrainHealth #HealthyAging #MusicTherapy #FascinatinRhythm tinyurl.com/bdduuftj
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LIVEdammit @livedammit.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
" #Sensitivity was defined as a heightened #responsiveness to environmental and emotional cues, making people more #vulnerable but also more #receptive to positive experiences and therapy."
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Highly Sensitive People Face Greater Mental Health Risks - Neuroscience News
A large-scale meta-analysis of 33 studies has shown that highly sensitive individuals are more prone to common mental health problems, including depression, anxiety, PTSD, and avoidant personality dis...
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