"They were exposed to acute and chronic stress by their childhood conditioning, and their ability to engage in the necessary flight-or-fight behaviour was impaired. The fundamental problem is not the external stress, such as the life events quoted in the studies, but an environmentally conditioned helplessness that permits neither of the normal ( Read more... )

So, often when I walk to work, as I am going from the subway up the hill to my office, I meet a man coming down the hill. He's always casually dressed and wearing a straw hat and sunglasses. We've taken to smiling at each other and it's like a little bright spot in my morning, since I'm usually running late and in subway mode ( Read more... )

"Maybe this is where we go wrong, feminists who fall in love: We have bought into the idea that being hurt is a weakness. We believe in the (after all, patriarchal) idea that showing emotion is bad because it’s feminine, and that visible emotion is even worse when it’s visible emotion over a man. We forget that the willingness to open up to others ( Read more... )

Dan Bern - I'm Not the Guy ( Read more... )

So JC and I are going camping this long weekend. I have four days off in a row. Amazing. I will be mostly offline during this time, I suspect. That alone should be good for me, right?

I'm missing Pride. Ha!

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So, I couldn't actually click on this link and get through to the facebook group - this whole paragraph is the link:Having sex can reduce a fever because of the sweat produced. Sex is also a pain reliever, ten times more effective than Valium: immediately before orgasm, levels of the hormone oxytocin rise by five times, determining a huge release ( Read more... )

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