Please pray for my husband. He has experienced some swelling after he began using his cpap recently. He has an appointment with his doctor tomorrow. Hopefully it’s nothing serious. My second request is about Noah Cooper and his family. I follow him online, and he and his family are dealing with an unsafe situation.
Who still does this?
I’m 34, and I’ve never felt worthy of being called a person. I’m posting this because this began in my childhood. I can remember being about 4 or 5 years old when it started. It was a holiday, and my aunt was telling me where to sit at the table for dinner, and all I can remember is thinking that I wasn’t worthy of taking a seat because I wasn’t much of a human being like the others. I thought I deserved to be on the floor, eating with the dogs.
Marriage is mine. I’m already married. I also feel called to motherhood, but have no living children, just five miscarriages that happened years before we converted. So I’m heartbroken over that and have no idea how, if, or when I’m going to raise children.
But anyway, what are your callings? How are you fulfilling them?
I’ve weighed the pros and cons of doing that, and I’ve decided that I’ll switch when my iPhone contract is up. If you have done that, which phone did you get?
I am Catholic, and I love sharing things about the Church, my faith, and my local parish community. It’s a great way to spread the word about all of that, and it has the potential to reach many. However, I’ve gone off of Facebook several times because my mental health is MUCH better when it’s completely deactivated.
Also, I can’t delete it because I have group chats in messenger. Anyway, if you’re like me, how do you handle this?
Im 34 and have been lucid dreaming my entire life.
I have mixed feelings on it.
I love horror movies, and I really love Rob Zombie’s Halloween ones. When the sequel came out, I was in the deep end of a horrific life that I’d been in for 17 years (my whole life back then), so I guess I was dissociated enough to deal with it enough to like the movie.
For some context, my dad is a scary person and he owns a business that entails him dressing as horror characters often, as well as working on audio that includes score music from those movies. He did this all year, so my upbringing was full of seeing him like that and hearing those tracks.
Anyway, the way Rob depicted Laurie dealing with PTSD now triggers absolute horror for me. Not only is the movie itself scary, but my experiences with abuse from someone who constantly dressed like Michael add a breathtaking layer of realism to it for me.
This film triggers my demons that are about my own identity problems (like the scene where she breaks her mirror), and all the dreams she has in the movie. I really this this film that I otherwise enjoy is one that I cannot watch anymore. It causes an indescribable level of terror for me, and one I finish watching it, I shift into this weird feeling that someone else is controlling my body, and I’m just a passenger in the backseat. I look around my environment and nothing feels like mine anymore, and I’m full of a rage that scares me.
Sorry. I just needed a place to vent.
What do y’all think of it? I just started it.
I am stoned af. Vaped weed during the day, and I ate a couple edibles over the last few hours tonight. I am dealing with extreme dental issues, so I’m doing this to keep the pain at bay. Plus it is awesome to feel happier and enjoy digging into my comic books more.
However, the only problem I’m having with it is the munchies. I fear weight gain, and I’m already overweight as it is, so the munchies is making me sad. How do you handle this?
Since I began spending less time online, I have read books on being a modern pioneer, Spider-Man, and Batman and Robin. Three books overall, and I’m working on a fourth, which is another Batman and Robin book.
I started really putting effort into pulling back from social media when lent started, and I’ve noticed many changes in myself since then. For example, my feelings on selfies (my own) are changing.
I used to take some every now and then to show my outfit, makeup, artwork, etc. However, I’m not doing that nearly as much. In fact, I’ve only taken two in the past few months, and they were for work.
Today, I did my makeup and loved my look. I thought I’d take a selfie, which I did, but I noticed it felt weird. I thought “why am I doing this?” And “this is fucking stupid” lol. I really only finished taking it because it’s the “normal” I’m used to. I didn’t know how to handle those new feelings on it.
For the record, I’m not against others taking selfies. You do you, boo. But I am leaning into this newfound feeling about mine, and it’s making me feel even more private. I love that and I really value my privacy more than I used to. Anyway, has anyone else experienced this?
Is there one I can access messenger on? I can’t leave it. I have group chats I need to access there, but smartphone life isn’t for me lol.
Around the middle of last year, I noticed my church has an intercessory prayer ministry. I kept feeling this pull towards it, but I didn’t join because I didn’t think I’d have time to go to their meetings.
Anyway, despite that, I have added many names to the prayer book since I started going there early last year. A little over a week ago, I decided to start using my notes app to make a list of people to add to the book, since I sometimes forget names when I am at church. So then on Sunday, after Mass ended I started writing those names in the book. And it’s important to note that before that, right after communion, I prayed and told God to use me however He wanted. I normally pray that anyway, but this time I was more passionate about it and I said I wouldn’t say no to whatever He wanted. I just wanted Him to show me the path He wants me to take.
But anyway as I was writing the names down, I noticed how long I was taking. I almost walked away right then because I didn’t want to keep someone else from being able to write in it, but I kept going anyway. It didn’t seem right to leave any people out of the prayer book.
I kid you not, the second I put the pen down, a woman who had been standing behind me joyously thanked me for adding people to the list, and then she invited me to join the prayer ministry! It turns out she’s the one who runs it. I took this as God answering my prayer, and I got an image of text in my head that said “just say yes.” As “yes” was coming out of my mouth, I thought about how I didn’t know how I’d make it to any meetings they might have. As soon as I was thinking that, she smiled a huge smile and said “oh! And there are no meetings!”
I was happy but a bit shaken by that lol. Later on that day, she sent me a text and part of it said “and again, no meetings 😜.” Maybe I’m wrong, but I really feel this was Gods way of answering my prayer.
What happens if someone can’t donate and can’t volunteer? Also, my husband and I can volunteer (I do now, and he will in the fall), but we are really bad off money-wise and can’t donate right now. However, our church sent us envelopes with dates on them. I suppose that means they’ll be tracking our donations. Does that mean, when they see we can’t really donate financially, that we will be kicked out of our church?
Nomo is great. If you’re like me, a person who is addicted to Facebook and yet is beginning to feel super exposed every time you post anything personal, and you spend large amounts of time scrolling, try this. My brain seems to \*love\* numbers and keeping track of progress, and that’s exactly what the nomo app does. It’s for addictions, and social media is one of the categories.
Also, I am not promoting this or trying to get you to buy anything. It’s just a helpful app I found.
Nomo is great. If you’re like me, a person who is addicted to Facebook and yet is beginning to feel super exposed every time you post anything personal, and you spend large amounts of time scrolling, try this. My brain seems to *love* numbers and keeping track of progress, and that’s exactly what the nomo app does. It’s for addictions, and social media is one of the categories.
Also, I am not promoting this or trying to get you to buy anything. It’s just a helpful app I found.