u/pinkimarie555

I tried searching the sub for anything remotely related to my question, but no luck, soooo….as a fan of cheeky, low waist pole bottoms, I’m struggling with the uh, lack of padding in the crotch area? Basically, my anatomy is a little bigger/longer in that area and there’s certain times where I’m realllly pressed into that pole and it hurts 😂 like a baby snake is starting to kill me because you get all pressed up in there-Is this what guys feel like when they get hit in the crotch??? Has anyone seen any pole bottoms that has any kind of extra padding or fabric in the crotch area??

I’m supposed to be starting 20mg of Cymbalta today but I keep just staring at the pill. I’ve had horrible reactions to antidepressants- Zoloft gave me the worst brain zaps and I had what my Pysch and I think may have been a serotonin syndrome episode to Pristiq- and while I really want to try again and find one that works for me, I’m just so freaked out. Not only because of my past experiences but the stories I’ve heard about coming off Cymbalta, that it’s the worst withdrawal ever. Idk if I’m looking for words of encouragement or whatever, but just freaking out a little.

I know the question of “does Kratom interact with SSRI/SNRI’s” has been asked a million times on here with mostly “no”- but my psychiatrist wants me to start duloxetine 20mg and several years ago, she started me on Pristiq 50mg and I had the worst reaction. I don’t know if it was serotonin syndrome but I had the worst like, sense of impending doom, heart racing, sweating- I remember having to call my mom and just have her talk to me on the phone while I tried to slowly breathe and calm down. My Pysch obviously had me stop and even gave me a script for cyproheptadine which she said I could take if I felt like that ever again (I guess it stops serotonin syndrome?) but I’ve been reluctant to try an antidepressant since. I’d really like to try this one, but I’m terrified of that happening again. I take around 3-4g of kratom 3xday and I can taper off and just take the medication instead but I wanted to see if anyone here has had a reaction like this before- I’ve really only seen posts about people being fine. I know some people can be more sensitive to these meds than others.

I’ve been doing pole for a little over a year now and have hit a little bit of a road block. I’m great with tricks but I struggle with flow or the dancing aspect of it. I don’t have any dance background but am athletic, so tricks come easier. I struggle a lot with the body-body connection aspect and while I practice a lot, I was wondering if anyone has found any conditioning/practicing outside of pole helpful, like dance classes.

I searched through the subreddit but didn’t really find much besides info on the braiding station at the festival. Anyone have any local recommendations for braiders? I know it’s last minute and a little bit of a Hail Mary but I really don’t want to deal with my hair getting crazy tangled this year.

I, like many I’m guessing, started my manifestation journey because of the desire for a person. After becoming frustrated with millions of different ideas and opinions and techniques from social media, I decided to scrap getting information from those sources and go straight to the original source-Neville. I’m currently reading “The Power of Awareness” and started to have doubts about achieving the desire for a particular person- I understand self concept changes our own reality and achieving the end state of feeling whole and loved and wanted and chosen reflects back to you in the 3D, but because skeptical that it would grant you a particular person- more so that living in that end state would bring people aligned with you into your world and that’s how people find their person, rather than “this one person specifically”.

But as I was reading, I came across the story about the costume designer using her thoughts and imagination to change the relationship she had with her producer- that by having positive conversations with him in her head rather than negative ones, that was reflected back at her in the 3D. By changing her attitude and assuming the best despite the current reflection in the 3D, the relationship between the two of them became positive. And that got me to thinking that perhaps manifesting a particular person may be possible- but that’s just my interpretation.

I know this subject has been discussed ad nauseam, I’ve searched and read through this subreddit many times about it. But one of my biggest doubts or limiting beliefs is “what if I invest this time and energy and nothing happens and I feel foolish?” I’ve had success manifesting much before, my current job is my dream job and when I got the interview, I remember telling myself “this is it, you’re going to crush this interview and get this job and it’ll be the best job you’ve ever had” and just let it go and that’s exactly what happened. I’ve done the same with money, with having debt cleared-perhaps it’s the idea of being so attached or invested in the outcome of a particular person that blocks that manifesting in this regard. But that story in Neville’s book gave me a new perspective. I’m wondering if anyone else interprets it this way.

I had a flow class today and one thing that stumped me was we were going from a dip spin to what the instructor called a “reverse dip spin” and for the LIFE OF ME, I could not get it! I’m home now and trying to find a video of it but no matter what I search I can’t find anything. Anyone have any ideas????

Anyone have any good recommendations for a massage therapist? Specifically for deep tissue/sports massage. I’m starting to develop shoulder issues from my job and need to get on it before it gets worse.

I just saw a post where some commented “ you’re treating movement as rejection because of the old story” and that immediately clicked something into place for me. Something happened with me and my SP and I manifested an apology, which I then got- but it was wrapped up in avoidance and therapy speak and not a direct accountable apology and now I’m treating it as proof that this person never really wanted me. Now I’m stuck in the old story and all of these negative beliefs about this person in this relationship and self-concept have been so high and it took a complete dive. Now I’m looking back on the entire relationship and critiquing moments where I was like did this person even like me? I wondered if anybody else had struggled with this and how to overcome it.

I’m in a weird space. Looking back on my life, I can see where and when I was manifesting and how to came to reality- but without being conscious of it, being able to label it as manifesting. Now that I know about manifesting, it’s like something has switched on in my brain- that this is crazy, that’s this is delusional, that if there’s no 3D movement than this is just me being insane and desperate.

Before I knew about manifesting, it was just wishing, it was just creating fantasies and stories in my head, visualizing and feeling those moments like they were real-day dreaming, I guess. And they would happen, but it was because I’d have those visualizations and then let it go. But now that it has a name, there’s a wall- this isn’t just a part of life, it’s what crazy people do. And so, so much resistance when there’s no movement. It’s like now that I know it’s manifesting, I can’t just decide or have the visual and let it go, I get stuck on it not happening, or get caught in a loop of “it’ll never happen/what if this doesn’t happen and I’ve wasted all this time”.

I literally manifested my SP years ago without even trying- just daydreaming about them, feeling everything like it was real-and things happened, I had to leave, we tried again, he did something…. And now, even though there has been some movement here and there, it’s like I’ve hit this low point, this wall where no matter what I think, or do, or what techniques I use, my brain shuts it down because once I labeled it “manifesting” now it’s crazy and delusional and desperate.

I don’t know how to alleviate this- part of me wishes I had never found out about manifesting. Has anyone else struggled with this?

I’m in a weird space. Looking back on my life, I can see where and when I was manifesting and how to came to reality- but without being conscious of it, being able to label it as manifesting. Now that I know about manifesting, it’s like something has switched on in my brain- that this is crazy, that’s this is delusional, that if there’s no 3D movement than this is just me being insane and desperate.

Before I knew about manifesting, it was just wishing, it was just creating fantasies and stories in my head, visualizing and feeling those moments like they were real-day dreaming, I guess. And they would happen, but it was because I’d have those visualizations and then let it go. But now that it has a name, there’s a wall- this isn’t just a part of life, it’s what crazy people do. And so, so much resistance when there’s no movement. It’s like now that I know it’s manifesting, I can’t just decide or have the visual and let it go, I get stuck on it not happening, or get caught in a loop of “it’ll never happen/what if this doesn’t happen and I’ve wasted all this time”.

I literally manifested my SP years ago without even trying- just daydreaming about them, feeling everything like it was real-and things happened, I had to leave, we tried again, he did something…. And now, even though there has been some movement here and there, it’s like I’ve hit this low point, this wall where no matter what I think, or do, or what techniques I use, my brain shuts it down because once I labeled it “manifesting” now it’s crazy and delusional and desperate.

I don’t know how to alleviate this- part of me wishes I had never found out about manifesting. Has anyone else struggled with this?