Elaine Thurber
@lightitup
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listener, runner, wavemaker, attorney, RN
Spokane
Joined March 2009
The TRUTH About Being Old and Alone https://t.co/ECtWiRjbAt via @YouTube The elder orphan in Home Health—no caregiver or support. In cases of dementia, no one to sign to give permission/make decisions. Assisted Living centers are unfortunately expensive and understaffed.
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“Are we really witnessing the beginning of psychiatry using death as a treatment for women’s trauma? It appears that we already did.” - Dr Jessica Taylor, ‘Sexy But Psycho’ (2022) ————————— I am absolutely against euthanasia in psychiatry, and I always will be. Psychiatry
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Note that we also rebuke the adversary every time we heal a misunderstanding or refuse to take offense. Instead, we can show the tender mercy that is characteristic of true disciples of Jesus Christ. Peacemakers thwart the adversary.
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Repeat: Never. Leave. A. Loved. One. Alone. In. A. Hospital. when seriously ill. Ever. A friend or relative must be at their bedside at all times if possible, or as much as possible. Their life chances and recovery depend on it bc nurses can't provide the full care they need.
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Sting Performs Practical Arrangement on Charlie Rose… https://t.co/Z2qZ3qKE8P via @YouTube At the same time we are lauding, even celebrating, the obscenely individualistic achievement that is old age solitude, we are, at the same time, suffering for the lack of each other.
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Emotional dysregulation is one of the most frustrating-- & most common-- symptoms of post traumatic stress-- & it's rarely resolved by sitting & talking with anyone, including a therapist. Therapy is a starting point, a tool, & a safe place-- but recovery goes beyond therapy.
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Much has happened to accomplish the educational & humanitarian goals set forth two years ago by President Russell M. Nelson and the @NAACP. In honor of #Juneteenth, NAACP and Church leaders gathered Monday in Memphis to announce efforts to ensure the longevity of a program that
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This $55 million facility will provide a dignified place to stay for individuals experiencing homelessness while they receive all the services necessary to help them on their way back into long-term stable housing, employment and self-sufficiency. https://t.co/qx1OLCzx7W
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Some might label me as an “old man.” But I’m a lot younger than Adam was—and Noah too. Ageism, racism, nationalism, sexism, and a host of other “isms” are universally limiting. How tragic it is when someone believes the label another person has given them.
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We are losing our religious freedoms, in large part because we are not defending them.
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I’m going to regret weighing in on this argument, but: yes, sure, parents with CPTSD *can* emotionally harm their children—just like parents without CPTSD can, too. That DOESN’T mean if you have CPTSD that it’s a forgone conclusion that you *are* or *will be* a hurtful parent.
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Worldly identifiers will never give you a vision of who you can ultimately become. They will never affirm your divine DNA or your unlimited, divine potential.
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The Fall activated two closely coupled gifts from God nearly as precious as life itself- agency and accountability. We became "free to choose liberty and eternal life or to choose captivity and death." Freedom of choice cannot be exercised without accountability for choices made.
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Our spirits existed in the premortal realm and will continue to live after the body dies. The spirit provides the body with animation and personality. In this life and in the next, spirit and body, when joined together, become a living soul of supernal worth.
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