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Returning to a place where we tried to save the Dietenbach #forest, where now people are dealing with heavy state repression. It's important that we recognise our improvements, tell the stories & share visions of what our #healing would look like.
Referencing Gelderloos, "They will beat the memory out of us", so it's up to us to soothe that memory back in. Bring your friends, & likewise let's celebrate #AntiRacism week!

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"Trauma can become a part of our self-image, we can imagine we carry it romantically, like a wound that makes us interesting, that makes us worthy of love and support, but that cosmetic change is still a renunciation of agency, of empathy, and of fuller awareness of ourselves as part of much larger collective beings."
~ Peter Gelderloos

petergelderloos.substack.com/p

Excellent essay and analyses on #Trauma and #Healing

Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos · Trauma RomanticBy Peter Gelderloos

Five of Cups: What Does The Five of Cups Mean?

When the Five of Cups appears in a Tarot reading, it’s time to acknowledge loss, process your emotions, and begin the journey toward healing. The Five of Cups is a card of grief, disappointment, and the need to shift your focus from what’s lost to what remains. Depicted as a figure cloaked in black, standing before three spilled cups with two upright cups behind… tarotsway.com/2025/03/24/five- #TarotReading #FiveOfCups #Grief #Healing #EmotionalHealth

How does one recognize whether or not what one experienced was narcissistic abuse?

It's not like one can ask the hypothetical abuser. They will deny it. Is learning about the patterns of narcissistic abuse and subsequently recognizing how they show up in one's lived experience the best one can do?

I find that a very unsatisfactory conclusion but it does seem like the best one can do. I probably lived in a relationship with at least narcissistic abuse patterns. And the unsolvable ambiguity of it all bothers me.