The difference byn the soundest of mental health and dissociative personality disorder/multiple personality disorder is very small.
Those with the soundest of mental health know they are a multiplicity of subjectivities and can welcome each one of them, let them be felt, expressed and integrate their perspective into your adaptive/ego identity.
Dissociative personality disorder your different subjectivities take over whenever they feel like it and your adaptive identity never integrates their voices into the sense of self. We are left at their mercy as separate disowned parts of ourselves shouting ever louder to be heard.
So perhaps the voices are just disowned parts of your multiplicity begging to be heard and taken in from the shadows and integrated into your sense of self.
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I listened to nostr:npub1pyp9fqq60689ppds9ec3vghsm7s6s4grfya0y342g2hs3a0y6t0segc0qq podcast interview last week and he seemed to conclude he doesn’t expect a lot of corps will follow the mstr playbook given the rare combo of experience in trad finance, a deep understanding and conviction in bitcoin, and an ability to wrap one’s head around the idea that diluting one’s stock can be a net benefit. It flies in face of common wisdom in corporate finance.
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I hear you and I totally agree. I just being silly.
Food is definitely the hardest place for me to have my low time preference self win out and thus food is the area in life that I am most dedicated to working on. :)
Damn you bitcoin making me value and work on having low time preference!
Yep, my wife saw my primal app open to this the other day and it was too difficult to explain….🤷
Do I have to be disciplined around food to be considered a good bitcoiner or is staying humble and stacking sats enough regardless of how much I love cake, pizza, popcorn, chocolate, potato chips and tea and toast?
#food
One’s love language is typically the inverse of the way you didn’t receive love as a child.
If you were abandoned - your love language will be presence/signs you can rely on your partner to be there for you.
If you were made to feel not enough as a child your love language will be to be enough/accpetable.
If you were not a priority for your parents your love language will be to be the most importsnt person to your partner.
And so it is.
Our need to be attached - emotionally bonded will be the last part of our humanity that will get striped away despite how hard we try not to need to be attached.
It is what it is.
Don’t shoot the messenger.
Mine is take a project off my hands and complete that project without needing any input from me. Then I feel loved.
I have helped a few friends get off zero. Pat myself in the back.
But I do still need to thread lightly.
They are still not orange pilled.
And I can easily be overwhelming and scare the shit out of them.
I have learned the hard way that just because they got off zero it doesn’t mean they are ready to go deep down the rabbit hole yet and I scare them when I start talking g to them like they are a full fledged bride in bitcoin now.
There are two types of couples therapists.
There’s honest ones, and there’s the rest.
The honest couples therapist gets up in the morning and looks themself in the fucking mirror, and sets their standard. Sets their stall out, and says I’m going to get better. I’m going to get better. I’m going to get better.
They don’t complain about the clients, or the internet connection, or the model. Or all these sorts of things.
These are just peripheral things that weak couples therapists have always complained about. The dishonest couples therapist.
If The couple are not getting the cycle, if they are not deescalating, if they are not surrendering to one narrative - it is on you.
And we accept that, and we do something about it. We keep working on understanding them, loving them, reflecting the cycle more creatively, deeper, invest more of your own vulnerability. You do what it takes.
It is a battle. Bare knuckle stuff. You must win the battle. You must win for the relationship.
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#relationships
#couples therapy
#marriage
#relstionship advice
Credit British and Irish lions speech by Jim telfer 1997 for inspiration
Hmmm..video won’t upload. I guess one of the things about nostr I gotta get used to that even my posts with errors remain on my profile? Hmm…indeed.
If you do a good job as a teacher all your students will take everything they can absorb from you, devouring your essence, and then throw away your carcass and disown your role in shaping opinions/career/success. 😭
A little tricky to have my wife do this with me, but c’est la vie.
We are both couples therapists and have our own podcast at comeheretomepodcast.com
This video here is an unedited little recording we did today on a family fun day as our kids are on fall break.
#relationship #marriage #systemstheory #attachment theory. #bitcoinersdeservegoodrelationshipstoo
Living our best life.
I love that this is what we say to each other here in Hawaii as a greeting, an expression of gratitude, appreciation, a reminder to be present and take in the beauty all around Pune us.
I am as obsessed with outrigger canoeing as I am with Bitcoin.
My poor wife must have been very bad in your past lives to end up with me!
Although she does these early morning recreational paddles with me. It’s our Hawaii version of a romantic date.
Not everyone goes to therapy to resolve mental illness. It is more of a process of self development, integration of your multiplicity of subjectivities, and a method to become more fully alive.
I am a therapist and the vast majority of the people i see do not have any mental illness. They are just garden variety neurotics like myself.
Besides, symptoms of psychopathology is just the organic self/soul calling to be heard.
There really are people who are skilled in helping the organic self be heard and integrated (brought in from the shadows) and thus growing your range of aliveness.
Why do all of that ? growing ones ability to be alive is arguably our responsibility/a privilege once we have food and shelter covered.
And if you are a parent - we need to grow our ability to be alive to model it for our kids.
That’s what I do- help people grow their ability to be more connected to self and other. That is a fun process.
It is not a journey that has a final destination.
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I studied business and economics at trinity college Dublin back in the early 90s.
Recently I asked a bunch of my former classmates, “what is the best way to buy bitcoin in Ireland?”
Some helpful attempts to answer the question that I appreciated.
But..one of my former classmates who has spent his entire career in stock portfolio management here in the US asked me about Bitcoin and told me about how
skeptical he is.
I risked the unwanted hijacking of our Group whatsapp chat by making a sober case for the values of bitcoin and my only ask was that he and others spend at least 10 hours to Really study it.
What was frustrating from our conversation:
He finished off our back and forth with, I am still not convinced. - well, duh! All I was suggesting is don’t dismiss bitcoin out of hand and tear yourself away from following Liverpool or man united for a few hours in the next few months! Ffs.
But the thing that really stuck with me is what he wrote in regards to inflation:
“The inflation protection ( from bitcoin) is a fallacy. Inflation doesn’t come from the currency you pay with. It comes from the price the seller charges. That will come from the cost of inputs, not how you pay.”
And that’s when I realized these people are living in a curated dream world l. In high school and at trinity we were spoon fed Keynesian economics and this wizard of oz shit - it isn’t money printing that causes inflation- that is inconceivable!
Almost all my friends in Ireland tell me bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme. Just one that happens to be working.
That’s when I realized I am completely wasting my breath!
I don’t have the patience of Michael saylor and others. I will let them at it and they will get bitcoin at the price they deserve.
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
Jalaluddin Rumi
Ah thanks for heads up. Yes- went back and forth on my “handle”.
Bitcoin excites me on so many levels. But I am completely alone in my day to day life with my love for bitcoin. Everyone around me is deeply embedded in the fiat matrix and thinks I am just a bit touched.
My wife is kind enough to let me share my excitement about bitcoin with her even though she has barely any idea what I am talking about.
Bless her heart.
I will use that wording on some poor normie this week- I refer to normies as people who don’t do personal development for a living! And I mean it as a compliment to normies! They are much easier to make progress with!