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The Sailor’s Skill
This post is about overcoming passive suicidal ideation through Stoic principles. Please reach out to your care team, or online support organisation, if you are feeling suicidal. International Mental Health Contact Information. This morning, I read the stoic philosopher, Seneca’s letter to Lucilius about vain syllogisms. A syllogism is a foundational form of deductive reasoning where…
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On Gathering Ideas
This morning, I read the Stoic philosopher, Seneca’s letter “On Gathering Ideas”. The older I get, the more I forget whether the punctuation marks go inside or outside the quotes so I just randomly choose every time I write, haha. Basically, Seneca talks about how we must be like bees. We must collect information from…
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Perfunctory Life, A Poem from my Confessions
When sadness comesIt drives away passionsLife becomes perfunctoryRestless no more—is my heartListless—it barely beatsNever stirs—for more impassioned featsWhen melodies operatic do soundSlight inner wakes do compoundBut heart laden—brokenIsn’t worth torturing—for tokenGestures given only in hasteWhen time and loveForever remain chaste.
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Seneca’s Letters 74-76 | Walk | Slow Quickening
Seneca’s Letters If you’re wondering who Seneca is and what letters I’ve been reading: Lucius Annaeus Seneca (ca. 1–65 CE) was the most famous of the Roman Stoic philosophers. After his retirement from the court of the emperor Nero, whom he had first served as a tutor and then as his main political advisor, Seneca…
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Gumbo Snuggles | Seneca’s Letter | Restlessness
Suicide treated as a topic of Stoicism. Morning Gumbo Snuggles I was up at 0400. Wasted some time coming to wakefulness. At 5, I tried to study my notes on postpartum psychosis. I was distracted by my inner world that was just more annoying than overwhelming. Spent time writing to friends. Snuggled with my 12-year-old…
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Psychosis in Motherhood | The Book I’m Writing
Research I’m using Zotero to read over my chapter one sources and to highlight key passages. And, I’m using Living Writer to organise the outline and manuscript. No affiliate links or promotion; I just use these two tools. In the beginning, I was hand writing all of my notes into my Kindle Scribe-and now I…