Dana Callista Lexa 🏳️‍⚧️

As An Addict™ i think i don't really... understand why people are so insistent that x or y addiction "isn't a thing". if someone has a compulsive relationship with something in a way that is negatively effecting their life, even if the negative effect is just "i feel bad about doing this but that has not lead me to stop doing it", i think that sounds a lot like addiction. in my opinion, the problem is not calling something an addiction. the problems start when we start reacting like we react to addiction-- which is to say, badly, & stupidly, & ineffectively.

Folks I am again mad that corporate “wellness” grifts have ruined the word “mindfulness” by prescribing a watered down version of it as a cure all solution to worker stress that is being actively induced by a hostile and inadequate work environment.

Because mindfulness, as in the actual therapy skill most commonly used in dialectical behavior therapy, is an extremely useful skill that basically makes you into Neo from the Matrix allowing you to achieve a level of slowed down self awareness which lets you think through how you’re feeling and what coping skills will help in a moment of stress rather than acting on impulse without thinking or getting stuck spiraling or panicking. And I never stop finding even more ways that it has improved my life.

And most people hear the word and think of the Amazon warehouse guided meditation closet