Category: self care

• On crying

  

  But let’s get back to crying and the mother of all systems, the nervous system. Wanna know why you’re so goddamn puffy? Why your face feels bruised the next day? Why your eyelids look like water beds begging to be punctured? That is your autonomic nervous system.

  Lorna Festa

  October 11, 2022

  anxiety, biology, crying, depression, healing trauma, mental health, neuroscience, science, self care

  autonomic nervous system, biology, crying, nervous system, neuroscience

• What’s the use of a title?

  

  I’ll let you both rest now, as an earth-walker I’m gonna stick to confiding in my cat and admiring children and learning to let go and have faith. It suits me better.

  Lorna Festa

  September 26, 2022

  anxiety, depression, healing trauma, mental health, self care, suicide

  be the voice, collective cycles, mental health, mental health matters, out of the darkness, real convo, stop suicide, suicide prevention, you are not alone, you matter

• How to survive a global pandemic

  

  If you’re preparing for lockdown (the most hairy part of a pandemic, literally and figuratively) you’ll want to figure out these things: Snacks. Super important. More on this later, see self care, inflation.

  Lorna Festa

  May 8, 2022

  covid, mental health, satire, self care

  covid, covid diaries, mental health, satire, self care