Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives.
- Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Doing social media is hard for me. How do you do regular posts that aren’t banal?
https://www.europesays.com/2094208/ EU weighs deporting migrants to countries they have no connection to #application #AsylumProcedure #connection #country #EU #Europe #EuropeanCommission #LastMonth #link #migrant #migration #MorePeople #Plan #responsibility #SafeThirdCountry
I am a #queer college student living in the US semi-rural south. My family moved every year, never having the money to renew leases or keep all of the utilities on. Now, I’m living with extended family to try kickin’ it in one stable place.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/community-and-connections-role-within-our-lives-79f5b8f8e623?sk=d06b7503728b1b3e8a617e8e918a9c95
What is the relationship between connection and attachment when people come together at meetings? A painting by John Singer Sargent offers a clue.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/connection-2/2022/10/connection-attachment
In her talk, Laura Miele emphasizes that while #socialmedia often leads to increased #loneliness due to shallow interactions and constant comparisons, #gaming offers a remedy. #Games provide genuine human #connection, foster collaboration, and combat isolation. By engaging with 3–5 friends, players can build meaningful bonds, making gaming a powerful tool for combating the loneliness epidemic.
“Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity." ~ Terri Guillemets
"There’s a certain dark irony in watching tech #billionaires who built their empires on the “democratizing power of technology” now actively working to dismantle #democraticinstitutions. The same figures who once championed #connection and #openness are now the architects of the most dangerous centralization of power in modern history."
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/17/the-de-in-decentralization-stands-for-democracy/
“DIECI E LODE” is an experience open to everyone: ten days of #sharing, #reflection, and #discovery within our #community at the @gaiaterra ecovillage near #Udine (#Italy).
You can join us even for just one day—your presence will always be valuable.
Get ready for #volunteering, #guidedtours, #workshops, moments of #connection, and new #friendships. Whether you’re experienced, curious, or just starting out, you’re welcome.
Come join us—we can’t wait to meet you!
On a #coding mission to improve my #poser lib 
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In the current implementation of #swad, I don't really like that I need an extra thread, just to control a child #process. A first piece to add to poser is generic "child process support", which I'm testing right now. I realized I could reuse my #Connection class, which was built for #sockets, but works just as well with #pipes 
TODO now is mostly testing. See screenshots for some mimimal testing code and its output ... would you like this kind of interface? 
Naturism is a #celebration of #authenticity & #freedom, a recognition of the inherent #beauty of both the human body & the #natural world that surrounds us. In embracing our #nakedness, we rediscover a sense of #liberation & #connection that transcends societal constraints, allowing us to revel in the simple joy of being alive. #naturism #nudism #noclothes #FKK #nude #Naturetherapy
The last part of the book Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves discusses conversations between people who may not agree. Other books have tackled this subject at length, so I won’t rehash the ideas here.
While some of the ideas in the book aren’t new (to me), I think they could be applied to collective benefit, both in person and on social media. Less one-upmanship, fewer “gotcha” questions, less correction, less ego. More question asking, more connection, and more kindness, most of all.
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Unraveling Mental Health: A Journey Through Neuroscience, Community, and Culture
#MentalHealth #Neuroscience #CommunityCare #CulturalPsychiatry #Psychiatry #MentalHealthMatters #Therapy #CBT #PsychologicalWellness #MentalHealthAwareness #Epidemiology #BiopsychosocialModel #Support #Stigma #MentalHealthEducation #Wellbeing #Connection #MentalHealthJourney
On big social media platforms: "Suggested friends: Random person from high school." 
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within each of us
our loved ones, in tiny form,
caring's innate yield
company at a distance
legacy in case of loss
#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #love #connection #entanglement #avatar #grief #missing #redundancy #backup
I'll post some notes in a comment on this thread.
Facebook is embracing its roots, focusing on meaningful connections with friends once more. If it ain't broke, don't fix it! Explore the changes: https://ift.tt/reIdJQC #Facebook #SocialMedia #Connection #byAI
I have been in Naples for three days now, and I have so many pictures I want to share (publicly and on private chats) but the Internet connection is absolutely terrible here.
It’s excruciating, but it also makes it awfully blatant how dependent I am on real-time communications.
#WorldSuspects Detained in Connection with EU Parliament Corruption Investigation #World #connection #corruption #detained #investigation #parliament #suspects
https://tinyurl.com/27vsusez
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I had another opportunity to coach on a client's connection to the environment. We are so separated from nature that it can be difficult and a little confusing to understand our connection to it, but it may only take a little gentle probing and holding space to find it and let it into the light and be richer for it.
Watch:
