Mike the Perpetual Student

@sacwriter.bsky.social

A Polymath, specializing in trauma and sex therapy using IFS and EMDR. LGBTQIA+ ally. Book fanatic and a little witchy. An Exvangelical who supports victims of church abuse. Proud Swiftie.

Good morning everyone, I hope you have a terrific Tuesday *smiles* Today's thought: Dysphoria is really a nasty visitor, it can strike at anytime and doesn't need anything to trigger it. Just remember if it does decide to pop its head up, it's lying to you, you are exactly who you believe you are ❤️

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Wismeijer & van Assen (2013), an online questionnaire study of 902 BDSM practitioners vs. 434 controls (NEO-FFI, Attachment Styles Questionnaire, Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire, WHO-Five Well-being Index), found practitioners scored lower on neuroticism,

Does the Asshole-in-Chief really believe other countries are going to honor economic sanctions against Iran? Seriously?! He has done everything possible to bully and harangue everyone and gets pissy when they won’t play along. This isn’t prep school, boy. This is the entire planet that hates you.

IFS Insight. In Internal Family Systems, we believe our internal system mirrors the parts of the world system we are part of. One of those parts in an Exile. The Exile is that part of us who remains wounded, rejected, hurt, abused, traumatized. We ignore them to make ourselves feel better. 1/2

Lust. Let's stop using this word. It's a pejorative term used to control others by shaming them for having sexual desires. It's often a patriarchal term because it is used to blame women some men want to have sex with. Sexual desire is not sin. Sexual desire is hard-wired into you. Stop shaming.

It’s hard for me to decide if all of the people who have left the Trump inner circle are women because: 1. He can’t stand to work with women. 2. They can’t stomach working with him. 3. It’s fucking both and we all know it.

Regardless of what memories haunt you, they can be changed. They can be reconsolidated and the symptoms you carry can be changed as well. "That's the Way I Choose to Remember It": Radio Flyer, Memory Reconsolidation, and the Healing Power of Retelling mikeinsac.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/t...

“That’s the Way I Choose to Remember It”: Radio Flyer, Memory Reconsolidation, and the Healing Power of Retelling

Any memory can be rehabilitated by the process of memory reconsolidation. In this article, the movie ‘Radio Flyer’ shows how it works.

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“That’s the Way I Choose to Remember It”: Radio Flyer, Memory Reconsolidation, and the Healing Power of Retelling Any memory can be rehabilitated by the process of memory reconsolidation. In this article, the movie ‘Radio Flyer’ shows how it works.

“That’s the Way I Choose to Remember It”: Radio Flyer, Memory Reconsolidation, and the Healing Power of Retelling

Any memory can be rehabilitated by the process of memory reconsolidation. In this article, the movie ‘Radio Flyer’ shows how it works.

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I taught in Youth With a Mission schools for over 25 years. 162 schools...mostly DTS. I taught in Montana, LA, Yosemite, Wyoming, St. Croix, SFO, Bellingham bases. Now I'm an agnostic. Mostly I taught on hearing god's voice. I still believe what I taught. I just don't believe in god. 1/3

I played 18 years of competitive soccer (football). 2 years before school started. 12 years of school 4 years of college. In that time, I broke every toe except the big one on my left foot. But none more often than the baby on my right foot. I did it again today. Second time this year.

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We now know the GOP playbook for the midterms: 1. The Communists are coming 2. Fauci ruined you 3. We will fix the economy that some mythical democrat ruined. 4. The Dems will bring back abortion and allow trans females to attack your children in bathrooms.