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02/21/2026

02/19/2026

We LOVE encouraging kids to be barefoot! 🦶🏽

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02/15/2026

02/15/2026

02/14/2026

Incredible read.

“I have a sick feeling in my stomach all the time.”

We’re hearing versions of this everywhere. Trouble sleeping. Constant anger. A low-grade sense of dread that doesn’t lift.

Soraya Chemaly examines for us what psychologists call institutional betrayal - what happens when the systems meant to protect the public instead protect themselves, or the powerful.

When harm is exposed and accountability never comes, the damage isn’t just political. It’s emotional. It’s civic. It accumulates.

What does repeated, large-scale institutional failure do to a democracy and to the people living inside it? And what are the antidotes.

Read the full feature at the link in comments.

02/13/2026

There is so much disconnect over the use of whips within clicker training. Maybe it would help to clarify things. Let's call an apple an apple.

"Whip" - a stick like object that is used as an aversive for the horse to work to relieve. No matter how gently the aversive is applied (a tickle, gentle tapping, a little flick).

"Target" - an object or visible object on a stick that the horse seeks out and touches with their nose or other body part in order to earn positive reinforcement.

"Fly swatter" - a stick with some tassles at the end for removing flies from the horse, visibly distinguishable from a whip

"Scratcher" - a stick with curved nubs at the end for scratching the horse. Also visibly distinguishable from a whip.

Whips are a tool, they can be used gently or harshly, they can be whatever you condition them to be. But why condition a the wrong tool? If you're using a whip as a target, a fly swatter or a scratcher, just use a target, a swatter or a scratcher.

Why? Because it matters to the humans. Whips have been conditioned to humans for thousands of years (like from BCE times and before) as tools of force, violence, and oppression. Why continue to use these when there are more appropriate equivalents? Without mixed meaning.

For fun i looked up the dictionary definition of a whip
Merriam-Webster
"To strike with a slender lithe implement (such as a lash or rod) especially as a punishment"
"an instrument consisting usually of a handle and lash forming a flexible rod that is used for whipping"

American heritage dictionary
"An instrument, either a flexible rod or a flexible thong or lash attached to a handle, used for driving animals or administering corporal punishment"
" To strike with a strap or rod; lash: whipped the horse with the reins."

These are the definitions of the noun and verb "whip".
Use the term and tool that fits the definition you are using it as. Using the terms correctly, that alone would clear up sooo much miscommunications and misunderstandings. If you're using a whip, its a whip. If its a target, its a target. And so on.

02/13/2026

“Poison” from a mental health perspective can take many forms. Be mindful. ❤️‍🩹

🪷 What Is Poison? — A Buddhist Reflection

The Buddha was once asked,
“What is poison?”

He replied:
“Anything in excess becomes poison.”

Even things that seem good
Can become harmful
When they lose balance.

Power can corrupt.
Comfort can weaken.
Food can harm.
Ego can blind.
Ambition can consume.
Vanity can empty the soul.
Fear can imprison.
Anger can destroy.

In Buddhist wisdom, suffering often comes
Not just from what we experience —
But from imbalance.

Too much desire creates restlessness.
Too much comfort creates weakness.
Too much ego creates blindness.
Too much fear creates a prison inside the mind.

The Middle Path in Buddhism teaches balance —
Not too much.
Not too little.
Just enough for clarity and peace.

And the deepest truth is this:

Poison is not always what we take in.

Sometimes…
It is what we refuse to let go.

Old anger.
Old pain.
Old grudges.
Old identities that no longer serve us.

What we hold onto
Can sometimes hurt us more
Than what once hurt us.

🌿 Balance protects peace.
🌿 Awareness prevents poison.
🌿 Letting go heals what excess destroys.

🪷 Watch what you consume.
🪷 Watch what you hold onto.
🪷 Watch what you let grow inside your mind.

Because not everything harmful
Comes from outside.

Sometimes…
Poison lives
In what we refuse to release.

02/12/2026

🧠✨ Your words matter… especially the ones you say to yourself.

A growth mindset starts with positive self-talk—replacing “I can’t” with “I can learn” and “I’m not good at this” with “I’m still learning.” 💪🌱

The way we talk to ourselves shapes the way we tackle challenges. Let’s make it kind, encouraging, and unstoppable. 💖

02/12/2026

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02/10/2026