Healing with Heather

What does it mean for a trauma to be completely and permanently healed? It means no more emotional pain. At all. Ever. No more trauma responses. No more fear. Just peace. heatherambler.com/single-post/ho… #traumarecovery #ptsd #cptsd #childhoodtrauma #efttapping #emotionalhealing

@TheoVon @bipolarchronic Much love to you, Theo. Much love.

@bipolarchronic hahaha amen

This is mostly 🧢. Sad to see this kinda stuff. Im doing great. Im a human being which is a rocky ride. But im doing fine thanks.

You have every right to know what your government is doing, and they have no right to know what you are doing. That is why they are called public servants and we are called private citizens. Instead, the relationship has been inverted. The state hides behind secrecy, classified files, and redactions while demanding total visibility into your finances, communications, movement, and behavior. A society where the rulers live in privacy while the population lives under surveillance is the very definition of tyranny.

Went to our anniversary dinner at a nice restaurant tonight where we were recorded by our server, apparently through his glasses, without our permission for his Instagram channel. As we paid, he showed us his Instagram channel and showed us the video he took and asked if he could post it. We asked him to delete it and if his manager knew he was recording diners. He just said no one else has ever complained. I asked to talk to the manager. Manager seemed to know and asked “if the light was on.” I assume this meant on the glasses indicating he was recording. We noticed no light. He said he would make him remove the glasses, which was how we became aware he was recording with the glasses. Needless to say, I am now a dog with a bone and this is not over.

every school should have a "fix-it lab" where students learn to repair their clothes, bikes and electronics. we should grow up knowing that not everything is disposable, that care and repair are part of living well on this planet.

SURPRISE. Guess who began working on an mRNA Hantavirus vaccine back in 2024? Moderna did. In collaboration with Korea University College of Medicine.

“They reported me to the STATE for selling pickles and green beans.” “The government says I CANT sell food grown on my OWN land.” Yet the same system that bans farm-fresh jars has no problem APPROVING shelves full of pesticide-treated, chemically processed junk.

Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of child trafficking 1,586 days ago. None of her clients have been arrested...

A guy in Alberta is selling tractors with zero computers. No software. No sensors. Just a diesel engine you can fix with a wrench. 400 American farmers tried to buy one after a single interview. Sometimes the moat isn't more features. It's less.

“The science is settled” is the least scientific thing I’ve ever heard.

Turning 27 today and got myself a flip phone. I've determined that a smartphone has become a net negative for my life. Excited for this new phase!

Told a grumpy gym employee who never smiles that i liked his shaved head. He said “thanks, I shave it every year to honor my son who died of cancer” Normally this would throw me off and I would awkwardly apologize for bringing it up, but I thought of the grieving parents on here who have said over and over that they enjoy talking about their kids, so I asked about his son. He absolutely lit up and told me all about what a wonderful man he grew into, obviously just happy to share his memory. So thanks, everyone, for sharing. It makes a difference irl

No matter where you stand politically, I think we can all come together and agree that putting spyware in our cars that watches what we do and can decide whether we’re even allowed to drive is a direct violation of our 4th amendment right and absolute tyranny.

Planting trees is certainly good. But it doesn't create a forest. Existing forests should be aggressively protected. There is NO substitute for a natural forest.

Humans have no right to water

Anyone who voted to install spyware inside of our vehicles should be removed from Congress. This is tyranny.

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. Right now, in this room, it is on. The circuit predates primates. Mammals have been using ambient soundscape continuity as a predator-detection system for roughly 200 million years. Birds stop singing when something larger moves through their territory. For most of mammalian history, a forest full of song meant no large predator was nearby, and the cessation of sound was the warning. Your nervous system never updated this software. The Max Planck Institute tested the inverse in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong dropped anxiety with a medium effect size. Six minutes of traffic noise raised depression with the same. The effect worked on subjects who lived in dense urban environments and had no regular contact with nature. The brain still ran the check. Birdsong sits in the 1,000 to 8,000 Hz range. Your brainstem reads continuous patterns in that band as a signal that nothing dangerous is currently moving through the environment. EEG data shows birdsong at 45 to 50 decibels boosts alpha wave activity by 14.1% relative to silence. Alpha is the brainwave signature of relaxed alertness. Push the same birdsong above 60 decibels and the response flips. Stress markers rise 29%. The circuit only trusts the signal at the volume of quiet conversation, which is exactly the volume birds sing at from a typical distance. Three things happen simultaneously when the brain registers ambient safety. The amygdala downregulates. The parasympathetic nervous system takes over from the sympathetic. Heart rate variability rises, cortisol drops. The posterior cingulate cortex, which sits at the center of the rumination circuit, quiets down. King's College London tracked this through a smartphone study with over 1,200 participants and found the mood lift lasted hours after the sound stopped. People diagnosed with depression got the same response as healthy controls. Most of what gets labeled mental fatigue is hypervigilance running in the background. Birdsong tells the circuit it can stand down, and the brain reallocates the freed compute everywhere else. A quiet park feels different from a quiet office because the parks have sentinels.

We all need to be worried about what’s going to happen after Trump We just had 57 Republicans vote with Democrats on automobile, kill switches. This cannot be easily reversed, nor will it be. Americans are not understanding the gravity of this situation

It’s no coincidence birdsong regulates our nervous systems & lowers cortisol. Birdsong is how birds announce the area is free from predators. They don’t just signal safety to fellow birds, they signal to the entire ecosystem. The human brain attuned to this signal over centuries.

A fumaça de alecrim no galinheiro é um método antigo que ainda funciona. 🌿 Antes dos desinfetantes industriais, os camponeses italianos e os seus homólogos franceses, queimavam molhos de alecrim seco no estábulo e no galinheiro uma vez por mês. Não era um ritual. Era uma técnica. O alecrim queimado liberta em fase gasosa cânfora, cineol, alfa-pineno e ácido rosmarínico. Em espaço fechado, estes compostos atingem concentrações letais para os artrópodes: moscas, mosquitos, ácaros, pulgas e piolhos, sem afetar mamíferos e aves, que toleram concentrações muito superiores. É esta seletividade que tornava a técnica viável num galinheiro cheio. — O ácaro vermelho (Dermanyssus gallinae) é o parasita mais temido na avicultura. Esconde-se nas fendas da madeira dos poleiros durante o dia e suga o sangue das galinhas à noite. Uma infestação forte provoca anemia, queda na postura e mortalidade dos pintos. Os camponeses fumigavam o galinheiro vazio (galinhas fora), deixando a fumaça penetrar em cada fenda durante uma hora. O efeito durava 2 a 3 semanas. As moscas dos estábulos; Stomoxys calcitrans e Musca domestica, caíam em poucos minutos. A fumigação mensal interrompia progressivamente o ciclo reprodutivo. A tradição não se limitava ao alecrim: • Sálvia seca: mesmos princípios ativos, usada onde faltava alecrim. • Zimbro seco: fumaça resinosa eficaz contra moscas e mosquitos, clássica nos estábulos alpinos. • Lavanda seca: fumigação dos quartos contra percevejos; o linalol queimado tornava as fendas da madeira inabitáveis. 🌿 A fumigação com ervas também tinha um papel de desodorização. A fumaça aromática mascarava o amoníaco do estrume; um irritante respiratório real para bovinos, suínos e aves. Reduzir essa concentração melhorava concretamente o bem-estar dos animais. 🌿 Hoje, para quem gere um pequeno galinheiro biológico onde os tratamentos químicos não são desejáveis, queimar um molho de alecrim seco no galinheiro vazio uma vez por mês continua a ser um tratamento complementar contra o ácaro vermelho: sem resíduos, sem contaminação dos ovos e com o custo de um ramo.