Doula Steve

05/23/2024

05/02/2024

Omg . Sorry I couldn't get the video working... There were about 12 people by the time I got started. I'll get the video working before next week :-) Thursday, 3:00 p.m. PST

05/02/2024

Omg, I'm so confused. Why is only old stuff showing up?... Well, in case you see this - I had technical difficulties with the Qigong class today... But here is at least a photo when it started. I had about 12 people when it got going.

04/30/2024

On this Thursday, May 2nd, 2024, at 3:00 p.m. PST, I will be doing a live broadcast of a sitting down Qigong session, at a senior living facility. Please join me.
For those who may not know, Qigong is a very, very ancient practice of energy manipulation, using very gentle and smooth movement to harness energy from the universe around us, to build our life energy and share it with others.

04/06/2024

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04/06/2024

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02/27/2024

Thanks for liking the video... I'm such a noob at this.. I'm not even sure when it takes and when it doesn't, lol

06/17/2023

Okay, last one on this spider series -- at least for now. The false widow was able to drag the comatose stink bug over to her nest where now I'm quite sure it is dead. She will continue to feed on it for a while. Notice there's a dead moth and a dead crane fly that she hasn't even bothered to go for, because she is so sated (full) from the plump stink bugs :-)
Omg, she's out of her house, and maybe even feeding on the stink bug. I'll see if I can get a close-up.

06/17/2023

False Widow Spider vs Stink Bug... Round #3.

06/06/2023

Round two, the stink bug escaped and vanished. But I found a small I think Japanese beetle - so I'm going to try feeding that to her...

06/06/2023

Okay, this is going to be a weird post. About bugs, and spiders, oh my! False Widow, Black Widow, Brown Widow, and Stink Bugs.
Not much to do with being a Doula, but it's what's on my mind...

05/31/2023

This is Apollo and Artemis frolicking on their freshly washed blankets... Artemis just wants to play, but Apollo has a different game in mind :-) He's going to have to get neutered soon. He's finally old enough that he's fully mature physically, so it is time.

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05/20/2023

This is Apollo snoring!

05/14/2023

SNAKES! I have always loved reptiles. I kept them as pets from a young age. I caught one yesterday and then released it, after showing it off to my nieces and nephews :-)
We kept a python from when he was 2 ft long, until he was about 18 ft long and the diameter of my thigh - at which point he became unmanageable, and we had to give him to a zoo.

05/05/2023

Here's a 5-minute video of me taking the dogs for a little ball session, in our new "backyard" :-)

05/04/2023

[ Edit: oops, I guess it did upload after all :-) It's 2 videos down right after the "Heroic Psychedelic Dose", video... For some reason YouTube's AI decided to make the thumbnail be Apollo - so even though this is redundant, I guess I'll leave it here :-) ]
Okay, as promised, here's my tour of our new home. We are living here, but we are definitely not moved in, lol -- as you will see.
It's an 11 minute video, and I didn't do it live - and couldn't figure out how to get Facebook to let me upload it... So I put it on YouTube .
Here's the link:

So, we are finally OUT of the old place. What an ordeal that was ! And now we're living in our new home, which we call The Jade House (not because it's mad...

05/03/2023

[ He doesn't address this specifically, but the possible application for people experiencing their End of Life, who have existential dread and fear of death, I think are obvious and promising. But the ethical issues are incredibly complex... ]
This is an interesting 11 minute talk from a professor at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Matthew Johnson, who studies psychedelics.
He proposes that virtually all psychiatric problems/mental illnesses are really forms of addiction, in a broader sense.
Whether it is addiction to substances, or behaviors, or thought patterns. And then he goes into the promising evidence of how psychedelics can open that narrowed perspective.
And in comparison with current pharmaceuticals, psychedelics are not only more effective, and can provide benefit almost immediately -- versus days or weeks or months with psych meds -- but are also physiologically far safer, with a very low risk of side effects.
And psychologically far safer, when the right safeguards are in place -- that is, where the right mindset has been prepared, and a proper physical setting are in place--to make sure that there is no overstepping of boundaries, since being in a deep psychedelic experience is such a profoundly vulnerable state.
This is a great 11 minute talk. Introductory, but he covers a lot of stuff. Well worth the listen:

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04/28/2023

Transformation out of the old place is complete! Painters are here, but the landlord's taking care of that. So here's a quick walk-through in the distinct lack of boxes, lol

04/22/2023

Here is the Transformation Process, progress. Packers came today and did a great job. Five people worked for six and a half hours and then basically I couldn't keep up with them and so they stopped. Here's an overview of what they did, and what I have left to do...

04/21/2023

Packing is well underway...

04/21/2023

Um... I'll take those :-)

04/21/2023

And it progresses...