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By Heather Shay · Posted
Which emotion seems to be the strongest in your life and is it good or bad? -
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By Heather Shay · Posted
Emotional exhaustion is a feeling of being emotionally drained or overextended by one's work, or as a result of continual stress from challenging or adverse events in life. It's a symptom of burnout, which is a chronic state of physical and emotional depletion that can result from excessive work or personal demands. -
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By Birdie · Posted
Frustrating day yesterday..... It seems the centre had used the "lack of enough prep time", and "you must get a full shower to be able to attend" to basically get their way. It is what it is, because I basically have no defence. I did mention that female participants are scheduled with enough time for their hair and makeup, but their response was of course, "you are not female." I can either abide by the rules or leave the program. I did file a complaint yesterday about years of excruciating pain I endured in my leg that their doctor accused me of "inventing" because I "didn't have anything wrong with it." And how after vascular surgery the horrible pain has finally departed. How it is absolutely absurd that medical professionals can minimise someone's pain like it doesn't exist. Their reply, "well, at least your were finally seen by a specialist and taken care of." The meeting did not go well! So starting today I have two options. Either cut my hair off or wear it in a ponytail. I shall go with the ponytail. I will also let my hair grow until it reaches my hips, and I told them that as well. As long as it's in a ponytail at will be acceptable. -
By awkward-yet-sweet · Posted
I disagree with this...I don't think it is good news to tell parents they can't opt their kids out of sex/gender instruction at ages they feel are inappropriate, or that violate their faith. However, perhaps some good will come out of this. I hope it totally destabilizes public education, or at least yields robust state voucher programs so parents who can't afford to homeschool can send their kids elsewhere. It might even encourage some folks to move to areas where they fit better. One of my husband's friends lives in Montgomery County, and has two kids in the school system there. They've been talking about leaving, long before this, for multiple reasons. -
By awkward-yet-sweet · Posted
Its after midnight, so... good morning? Looks like no traveling for me this week. Some of the expected orders from Houston never materialized, so there are fewer shipments going out. Instead of having to help out with transport, my husband gets to stay home. Not that I'll miss Texas, but I was looking forward to some road time. Oh well. -
By Carolyn Marie · Posted
I agree. Carolyn Marie -
By awkward-yet-sweet · Posted
If the Supreme Court isn't taking on this case or many others, I would guess that it isn't as "conservative" as many folks fear. However, I wonder if the reality is worse. I'd prefer a ruling either way, just to settle this stuff so we know where we stand. By leaving things relatively undecided, they're prolonging social upheaval....we're being used as a distraction. -
By Carolyn Marie · Posted
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/20/politics/supreme-court-transgender-montgomery-county-maryland/index.html Carolyn Marie -
By MaeBe · Posted
They may feel disappointed or aggrieved, but that's on them. It's on society really. In the end, who should really care other than you and the higher power(s) you believe in? I haven't been a willful volunteer at all in my adult life (if ever), I surely did so as a youth but can you consider that willful if you're required to? Since allowing this part of me to shine I have been more active in the community, volunteering and participating in society in ways I never did before. Perhaps you'll feel the same when you allow yourself to. My wife and my kids all see me and how I've changed. I haven't hidden it away from them, but I realize I may have lucked out with their general acceptance. Where the struggle comes is from my internal fight with putting it out in the world. "What are your pronouns? Have you changed your name?" are all asked of me and it feels like a lot when I just want to be me, but I understand where it comes from. That is why I resolved to register as my nickname and use She/Her at the HRC conference, because I owe it to myself to have permission to embody who am I. Now it's just finding a new job as this person that I am and not the person I thought I was--not eschewing the past, but realizing that there's no reason to feel that that was a better me. It wasn't. -
By EasyE · Posted
Bingo for me!!. In some ways I wish it were more cut and dry. Like some folks on here who knew when they were 2 years old that they were a girl (and everyone else around them knew too). I don't have that. I do have a fascination & enchantment with the feminine that started very young. It is both something I am attracted to (like tonight at Target I couldn't keep my eyes off all the beautiful females in my midst) and something I aspire to be and connect with at a deep level. For me, there has always been a drive to express this feminine dimension outwardly through clothing. I can see that thread from all the way back when I was a kid. I have always wanted to wear girls/women's underwear. And I have always pushed the boundaries of wanting to wear girl stuff under my clothes, though I've known that if I ever got caught (in high school, on my swim team, by my wife!) there would be hell to pay... This drive continued through college, into adulthood, into marriage (even though I thought that would solve it because I could finally be intimate with a woman and it not be a "sin")... I always felt such shame about this part of me until about two years ago I finally started asking myself, "what is so wrong with this?" Once I gave myself permission to explore this further, and with the help of a therapist who for the first time validated my experience instead of shaming me, my "egg cracked" and the embers were fanned into a wildfire (sorry about all the mixed metaphors, lol)... Now I have a whole closet and drawers full of women's clothes (many of which I only wear when I am alone), I am separated from my wife, my kids have an inkling of my feminine side but not much more than that, and I am two months into "covert" HRT wondering when/if there will come a day of reckoning when it becomes obvious what I am doing... I guess deep down I just feel like a misfit and that my life could have been/could be so much more impactful and that I am a giant disappointment to everyone around me...
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