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23.01.2022 This It's absolutely beautifully true !!!

23.01.2022 What not to say to someone with a mental illness: * It's all in your head * But you have nothing to worry about * Stop complaining all the time... * There is nothing wrong with you * You're just an attention seeker * Just get a job * Stop being so dramatic * You don't look mentally ill * You're not pushing yourself enough * You're crazy or you're insane * You need to stop feeling sorry for yourself * No one said life was fair * You are always so negative * It's all your fault * Things could be so much worse * Snap out of it! * You don't need medication, just exercise * You need to get out more * At least it's not [insert another illness] * Just think positive * 'Smile' ~ MPL @MHIIR_14 ~ Mental Health and Invisible Illness Resources <3 https://www.facebook.com/MentalHealthandInvisibleIllnessResources/

22.01.2022 "As a kid, it would have been immensely helpful if..."

22.01.2022 Quote of the day #truth

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22.01.2022 Just a reminder that the collaborative pop up @thefairtradehub is flying out of Glendale to set up ready for Christmas at Belmont. We are closing at Glendale ...on the 13th of September, then re-opening at Belmont on the 1st of October. We don't have a home for two weeks . So, if you want to help us out by organising a home or work "Fair Trade Hub' party during this is gap, we would be soooo grateful . In the meantime we are here at Glendale giving out positive vibes and selling our beautiful products. Also, please note that any laybys needing to be paid off for Christmas will be moved with us, so don't panic there is still plenty of time to pay them off . We apologise for any inconveniences and we thank you for your ongoing support and understanding. Lots of love, Yvie #whenthetoughgetsgoingthegoinggetstough #togetherwecanchangetheworld #changemakers #movingforward #fairtrade #positivethinking #wegothis #thefairtradehub

22.01.2022 Dear Greta Thunberg, While I completely understand that there are many areas in which you know a lot more then me.... There is one area I think I may know a li...ttle more then you in. Dirty. Old. Men. You see I would never dare to compare myself to you. At 16 while you are literally saving the world, I was learning how to make a can bong and matching black lipstick with the occasional dog collar, (dont ask Greta, it was a confusing time, trying to fit in by standing out.) But what I do know is whats its like to have your mannerisms ripped apart in order to diminish the facts you spread. I am so slow on the up take, I only recently discovered you and my mind was blown, your passion and intelligence, your strength made the hairs on my arms stand straight up, but that Im afraid was met swiftly with dread. I saw the amounts of comments stories on you were generating and that can only mean one thing, there are detractors. Of course there are. But I was wrong, there are outright bullies and they are mad, mad because they have nothing, mad because you know your shit, mad because you are exposing their behaviour... and anyone whos campaign against domestic violence or the treatment of refugees or the gender pay gap or the #metoo movement will tell you that Dirty Old Men dont like having their bad behaviour made public. In fact there is literally nothing they hate more then being confronted by their own actions. And so will begin the smear campaign. At first they will simply try and discredit you. I have campaigned against bullying and so they try and discredit me as the actual bully. You campaign for the climate and that will lead them to investigate you desperately trying to find so much as a disposable coffee cup in your hotel room. Just like any woman campaigning against males violence against woman will tell you the first argument youre met with is woman abuse men too Once Greta, they realised that any dirt on you wont detract your impressively sized fan base they will go for the jugular, now they are attacking your mental health, your mannerisms, your differences, I am gravely concerned about Greta Thunbergs mental health hot tip, they aint concerned about your mental health at all, in fact the only thing they are concerned about is your growing power, your unwavering strength and your complete disregard for their scare tactics. Anyone genuinely concerned about anyones mental health doesnt say that on a public forum, they email and private message. People who say it on a public forum are simply trying to convince others that your mental health is too poor for your message to be correct, to return to the comfort of their ways. And finally they will go after your following sheep blind followers etc etc. Thinking their last hope is to embarrass your supporters into turning away. But that doesnt seem to be working either... does it. Make no mistake that their are women partaking loudly in this smear campaign too, but their actions stem from the top and at the top sits the dirty old men, terrified of being knocked off their thrones. Let them puff their chests my girl, let them continue to slander your powerful name. And every time they put pen to paper or mouth to mic in order to slander you, discredit your mission or your mental health, see that fear and desperation in their eyes. And ask why so angry big fellas? Because your power far exceeds their fear. Be proud of yourself, it takes a lot to scare the Dirty Old Men Of our world and you now sit in the same category as some of our worlds greats, who ironically were all abused and trolled and discredited in their times too. #howdareyou

20.01.2022 ‘You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.’ Greta Thunberg delivered this searing condemnation to world leaders at the UN on the mounting climate crisis

20.01.2022 Importance of Self-Stimulation The stereotype of the boy sitting in the corner rocking and flapping his hands was once the hallmark of what people considered au...tism. Since then many therapists, teachers, and parents have spent major efforts to stop self-stimulatory behavior. It looks too autistic. If they do not rock and flap, they do not look autistic. Little consideration was given to why this behavior was occurring and what important functions self-stimulation provided the individual. It just looked weird, therefore it must be extinguished. Once we stopped all weird behavior, the child was no longer autistic. This was a very disrespectful stance to take. As we listened more to those with autism describe their experiences, we learned how important stimming is for them, the functions stimming serves and the coping mechanisms they provide. Self-stimulation is usually a rhythmic, repetitive sensory pattern. Common forms of stimulation include rocking, hand flapping, twirling, pacing, jumping, vocalizing, flicking or flapping objects, etc. This behavior often serves to help the child regulate their arousal level, taper anxiety, release stress chemicals and maintain focus. Self-stimulation (stimming) can be a great tool for coping with sensory overload. Sensory stimulation serves multiple functions, usually to regulate the nervous system by reducing outside stimulation when overwhelmed or increasing stimulation when under-aroused. However, these functional purposes can be broken down into the following: 1. Mask: Can be used to mask or block out uncomfortable stimulation. When faced with too much stimulation (too much noise, chaotic activity, etc.), the person can hyper-focus on stimming to help block out the uncomfortable stimulation. Often, it is the only self-controlled, immediate coping skill the individual has for dealing with uncomfortable stimulation. 2. Sooth: When anxious or overwhelmed, self-stimulation can be used to soothe and calm the nervous system. Rhythmic, repetitive sensory patterns (rocking, deep pressure, humming, pacing, etc.) that the child controls can be very calming to the nervous system. Stimming is an important tool for regulating anxiety. This tool should be supported, not discouraged. 3. Alert and Organize: Sensory stimulation helps modulate sensory input to keep the nervous system calm and alert. To keep their nervous system organized and regulated, children will use self-stimulation to calm themselves when over-aroused and alert themselves when under-aroused (more on this in a moment.) 4. Stay Connected: If hypo-sensitive, meaning that the person has difficulty registering the stimulation, he or she may seek out intense stimulation to stay connected with that sense. They may hum, sing, and make loud vocalizations to stimulate their hearing, or continually bang their ankles or wrists on objects to feel connected to their bodies when having difficulty registering proprioception (stimulation to joints, muscles, and tendons.) For the child who has difficulty registering vestibular movement, they may seek out intense swinging and spinning to wake up that sense. 5. Feels Good! The child can engage in sensory stimulation simply because it feels good! Releases feel-good chemistry (Dopamine). The sensory can feel very good to the nervous system and is self-reinforcing. Self-stimulation occurs in many forms but usually consists of repetitive, rhythmic sensory patterns to one of more of the senses. Examples of these include: Movement: Rocking, pacing, head rolling, spinning, swinging, etc. Proprioception: Hand flapping, tapping body parts, crashing, bumping into things, twisting limbs, cracking fingers, head banging, biting self, etc. Tactile: Fidget toys, rubbing self, licking self, smearing, scratching, biting self, touching everything, etc. Visual: Staring at fans, reflections, light sources, visual patterns (waves, leaves, falling sand, flicking light switches, etc.) Auditory: Banging objects, tapping, drumming, vocalizing, scripting, singing, listening to repetitive noises, etc. Olfactory: Smelling items before playing with them, smelling hair, smelling food before eating, body odors, etc. Self-stimulatory behavior is a common way to screen out unwanted stimulation when over-aroused or blocking stimulation that overwhelmed. Hence, you often will see an increase in the childs self-stimulatory, repetitive behavior when they start to become overwhelmed. It is a tool they used to block out and turn down stimulation, as well as distract the nervous system to calming activity. Most self-stimulation consists of self-controlled, rhythmic, repetitive patterns that sooth and organize. Rhythmic sensory patterns have a strong calming effect on the nervous system. Never try to stop self-stimulation when the child is trying to hold it together. It is their main tool for coping with overwhelming sensory demands. It used to be thought that sensory stimulation needed to be interrupted because it either didnt look normal or distracted the child from learning. Without evaluating what purpose the behavior provides, it was labeled as bad, autistic and should be stopped. However, now that many autistic adults tell us the various functions that stimming provides them and how important it is to regulate their nervous systems, we now realize that self-stimulation is a vital coping skill for them. We all use self-stimulation to regulate our nervous system. We bite our nails, twirl our hair, rock, hum, crack our knuckles, tap our feet, chew gum, doodle, and a host of other self-stimulatory behaviors. Smoking cigarettes is a sensory stimulation behavior pattern. We use these behaviors to alert us when under-aroused and calm us when over-aroused. What type of self-stimming do you do? It helps to become aware of your own behavior and how it serves you to get a good idea of why these behaviors are important for those on the spectrum. The only difference is children with autism usually have much more fragile and disorganized nervous systems and have a greater need for self-stimulation. So, to answer the not normal argument, self-stimulation is important for all of us. It is normal. However, usually much more important for those on the spectrum. Now, the type and intensity of self-stimulation (rocking, hand flapping, vocal noises, etc.) may be different and make them stand out in public. The child may flap his hands when excited or when anxious, which makes him stand out, or paces in circles when in a chaotic setting to cope with the chaos, but trying to get them to stop leaves them helpless in coping with the disorganized nervous system. Since most self-stimming does not hurt anyone, it is more of an acceptance problem than behavior that needs to be extinguished. Most of us feel that self-stimulation should be accepted and respected, but many people, even some of those on the spectrum themselves would like to not stand out. If the individual chooses to stop such self-stimulatory behavior, they should be encouraged to substitute less obvious forms of stimming that can serve the same function. Lets also look at the argument that self-stimulation distracts the child from learning. We have already learned that for the child to focus and learn his nervous system must be in a state of optimum arousal (state of readiness to learn). If the child is anxious and over-aroused or under-aroused and cannot focus, he may need to use self-stimulation to organize his nervous system, so he can focus and learn. We have found over the years that a child doodling, rocking, fidgeting, etc. can still be listening and taking in information. People have been surprised to find out that the child who appears to be detached in his own world of self-stimulation is listening and learning the whole time. In fact, it is the self-stimulation that allows him to keep himself regulated, focused and attentive. To stop his self-stimulation dysregulates his nervous system. One more important matter that autistics want us to know is that consciously trying to inhibit stimming is so distracting and mentally exhausting that it inhibits their ability to focus and mentally drains them. Trying to intentionally suppress the actions, takes enormous conscious effort. Not only does the nervous system become dysregulated, but the person also becomes more anxious, since they are intensively trying to suppress the tool they are using to cope with the anxiety. This is not only very intrusive and invalidating to the child, but also makes it more difficult for him to focus and learn. This article will be published in the upcoming book, The Autism Discussion Page on stress, anxiety, shutdowns and meltdowns https://www.amazon.com/Autism-Discussion-Anxi//ref=sr_1_3

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19.01.2022 You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. Greta Thunberg delivered this searing condemnation to world leaders at the UN on the mounting climate crisis

18.01.2022 "There is no reason why we shouldn't go on a fashion diet" - former Vogue editor Bandana Tewari.

18.01.2022 Will have to look further into this #greenwashing

17.01.2022 Think Asperger's syndrome only affects men? Think again!

16.01.2022 People frequently ask me if Im a Christian. My answer depends on the definition of Christian: If your definition is someone who goes to a specific church and ...adheres to a rigid moral code while demanding others do the same, then the answer is no. If your definition is someone who embodies the church and lives with their fellow humans with love, acceptance, respect, and compassion, then the answer is yes. The Jesus I know and love fed the hungry, welcomed children, defended the oppressed, challenged authority, died an enemy of the state, and appointed a woman as the first messenger of his resurrection. I dont engage in theological debates, though my faith is often challenged by those who equate rigid moral codes and narrow definitions of church and white-male-centered human hierarchies with being right with God. I believe debate in the context of theology is just a euphemism for divisive. And love isnt divisive. That said, Im happy to clearly state what I believe for any who are interested: I believe every human is created in Gods image, and therefore I believe in equality regardless of gender, ethnicity, ability, identity, sexual orientation, economic status, or location of birth. I believe this gorgeous old earth is a precious gift we need to handle with care. I believe Jesus was a social justice warrior and a feminist far ahead of his time, as well as the living incarnation of a loving, generous, creative, infinite, undefinable, eternal being we call God. Others believe differently. And thats okay. Gods big enough to handle our differences. Ill leave the debates to others and simply live my faith instead of defending my faith, love my neighbor instead of offending my neighbor, and walk the earth in worship of an audaciously brash, unconditionally accepting, religion defying, tenderly loving, brown skinned, middle eastern Jew. My religion is simple: Love God and love my neighbor. How do I love God? By following his example. Who is my neighbor? Everyone. Hope that answers your questions, friends. A bit more about my faith & how I share it with my children: My younger children recently asked why we don't go to church like we did years ago & I told them that my conception of church had shifted & grown beyond a building & day of the week & set of traditions. I told them I believe we ARE the church, that the earth is our altar and our lives our worship. Every step we take, word we say, life we touch, need we meet, dream we chase, hand we hold, tear we shed, smile we share...everything is part of the never-ending journey of knowing & serving & loving God. Church as an organized community has its purpose. I spent many years in that community. I bear it no ill will. I just know thats not where I belong. Now I walk the earth in prayer. Now I worship my Creator by loving his creation. Now I serve my God by caring for his children all humans, without barriers or labels or conditions. I told my children that this is my faith, my understanding of God and my relationship with him at this moment in time, and that it will change and evolve and shift over time, as will theirs. That is, to me, the meaning of Living Water freedom, abundance, life-giving, evolving, refreshing, surprising, fulfilling, sustaining. And I told them to ask me again next week and I might have a different answer. L.R.Knost Please respect the work of authors, photographers, and artists. You are welcome to share provided you include appropriate credit and do not crop out authors names from quote memes. Thank you. #thegentleparent #parenting #children #life #kindness #Jesuslover #humanlover #feminism #socialjustice #equality #globalresponsibility #humanity #peace #sexualassaultsurvivor #cancer #cancerwarrior #LRKnost www.LRKnost.com . Fighting a rare, incurable cancer, but I'm still here! L.R.

15.01.2022 Even when nobody supports you, GET UP ANYWAY! #RealTalkKim ---- For more encouraging words, visit my YouTube channel here: https://bit.ly/33vEh93

15.01.2022 If you want your child to be good at mathematics, its important and #natural that they begin by counting on their fingers. A mother called me to report that... her 5-year-old daughter had come home from school crying because her teacher had not allowed her to count on her fingers. This is not an isolated event. Schools regularly ban finger use in classrooms or communicate to students that they are babyish for following their #instinct to make representations with their fingers when engaging in mathematics. This is despite compelling areas of #neuroscience that show the importance of a part of our #brain that sees fingers, well beyond the time and age that people use their fingers to count. Neuroscientists often debate why finger knowledge predicts mathematics achievement, but they clearly agree on one thing: It does. And that knowledge is critical. As Brian Butterworth, a leading researcher in this area, has written, if students arent learning about numbers through thinking about their fingers, numbers will never have a normal representation in the brain. In fact, the quality of the 6-year-olds finger representation was a better predictor of future performance on mathematics tests than their scores on tests of cognitive processing. In a study published last year, the researchers Ilaria Berteletti and James R. Booth analysed a specific region of our brain that is dedicated to the perception and representation of fingers known as the somatosensory finger area. Remarkably, brain researchers know that we see a representation of our fingers in our brains, even when we do not use fingers in a calculation. The researchers found that when 8-to-13-year-olds were given complex subtraction problems, the #somatosensory finger area lit up, even though the students did not use their fingers. This finger-representation area was, according to their study, also engaged to a greater extent with more complex problems that involved higher numbers and more manipulation. Other researchers have found that the better students knowledge of their fingers was in the first grade, the higher they scored on number comparison and estimation in the second grade. Even university students finger perception predicted their calculation scores. One of the recommendations of the neuroscientists conducting these important studies is that schools focus on finger discriminationnot only on number counting via their fingers but also on helping students distinguish between those fingers. Still, schools typically pay little if any attention to finger discrimination, and few curriculums encourage this kind of mathematical work. Instead, many teachers have been led to believe that finger use is useless and something to be abandoned as quickly as possible. Finger research is part of a larger group of studies on cognition and the brain showing the importance of visual engagement with mathematics. Our brains are made up of distributed networks, and when we handle knowledge, different areas of the brain communicate with each other. When we work on mathematics, in particular, brain activity is distributed among many different networks, which include areas within the ventral and dorsal pathways, both of which are visual. Neuroimaging has shown that even when people work on a number calculation, such as 12 x 25, with symbolic digits (12 and 25) our mathematical thinking is grounded in visual processing. And people who are not strong visual thinkers probably need visual thinking more than anyone. Everyone uses visual pathways when we work on mathematics. The problem is it has been presented, for decades, as a subject of numbers and symbols, ignoring the potential of visual methods for transforming students mathematics experiences and developing important brain pathways. To engage students in productive visual thinking, they should be asked, at regular intervals, how they see mathematical ideas, and to draw what they see. They can be given activities with visual questions and they can be asked to provide visual solutions to questions. Such activities not only offer deep engagement, new understandings, and visual-brain activity, but they show students that mathematics can be an open and beautiful subject, rather than fixed, closed and impenetrable. ( Look in comments below to download free PDFs of such activities). Stopping students from using their fingers when they count could, according to brain research, be akin to halting their mathematical development. Fingers are probably one of our most useful visual aids, and the finger area of our brain is used well into adulthood. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4360562/ https://carleton.ca//wp-content/uploads/CSS07_pp740-penner https://www.theatlantic.com//why-kids-should-use-t/478053/ #neurochild #brainscience #abstractintelligence #mathematicalintelligence

14.01.2022 Play Schools new special, Beginnings and Endings, is all about the cycle of life and death from a pre-school perspective. Alex talks us through the episode a...nd the personal stories that he shares in this very special show. You can watch a preview together on ABC iview this week. Play School: Beginnings and Endings will air on ABC KIDS at 9am on Monday 19 August.

13.01.2022 "A lot of sensory kids use their mouths to get sensory input. The mouth is a treasure trove of sensory receptors. Sensory input is a real need, not an annoying ...habit. But the chewing, chomping and biting can be alarming and harmful to them and others. There are ways to meet those needs that dont have negative side effects. Let's look at WHY kids use their mouths for sensory input." https://www.mymundaneandmiraculouslife.com/the-sensory-nee/

13.01.2022 JAMU Jamu is an Indonesian word, loosely translated as tonic. It is a medicinal drink made by infusing various fresh and dried herbs, spices, barks and roots ...of plants. This is an age-old remedy that these days contains mainly turmeric, yet you may never find the same two Jamu recipes. Turmeric contains hundreds of compounds found to have anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, and needs pepper to do its work. Jamu shots are usually taken daily in the morning as a health boost, then more frequently if were run-down or sick with a cold or flu. This is how I make my Jamu at home: Use two cups of turmeric root, scrubbed clean then blended with one cup of clean water, one cup of lemon juice and one teaspoon of peppercorns. Pour mixture into a soup pot with seven more cups of clean water. Simmer gently for ten minutes. Allow to cool a little, then strain this heavenly, golden elixir. Add raw honey or maple syrup to taste, if desired.

12.01.2022 Is this just my house?

12.01.2022 You know I love practical tools and processes to implement especially on #ParentsDay Learning how to discipline kids (and adults) in a healthy and helpful way c...an mean the difference from an unhappy or happy human being. Remember to be helpful, not hurtful, when you're coaching a team member or speaking to your kid. Thank you Justin Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families

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10.01.2022 Yes sis, it really did happen the way you remember it. No, youre not crazy. No, youre not mentally unstable. Youve just been mentally abused. Click here to learn more about #gaslighting https://medium.com//gaslighting-the-narcissists-favorite-t

09.01.2022 If you want your child to be good at mathematics, it’s important and #natural that they begin by counting on their fingers. A mother called me to report that... her 5-year-old daughter had come home from school crying because her teacher had not allowed her to count on her fingers. This is not an isolated event. Schools regularly ban finger use in classrooms or communicate to students that they are ‘babyish’ for following their #instinct to make representations with their fingers when engaging in mathematics. This is despite compelling areas of #neuroscience that show the importance of a part of our #brain that sees fingers, well beyond the time and age that people use their fingers to count. Neuroscientists often debate why finger knowledge predicts mathematics achievement, but they clearly agree on one thing: It does. And that knowledge is critical. As Brian Butterworth, a leading researcher in this area, has written, if students aren’t learning about numbers through thinking about their fingers, numbers will never have a normal representation in the brain. In fact, the quality of the 6-year-old’s finger representation was a better predictor of future performance on mathematics tests than their scores on tests of cognitive processing. In a study published last year, the researchers Ilaria Berteletti and James R. Booth analysed a specific region of our brain that is dedicated to the perception and representation of fingers known as the somatosensory finger area. Remarkably, brain researchers know that we see a representation of our fingers in our brains, even when we do not use fingers in a calculation. The researchers found that when 8-to-13-year-olds were given complex subtraction problems, the #somatosensory finger area lit up, even though the students did not use their fingers. This finger-representation area was, according to their study, also engaged to a greater extent with more complex problems that involved higher numbers and more manipulation. Other researchers have found that the better students’ knowledge of their fingers was in the first grade, the higher they scored on number comparison and estimation in the second grade. Even university students’ finger perception predicted their calculation scores. One of the recommendations of the neuroscientists conducting these important studies is that schools focus on finger discriminationnot only on number counting via their fingers but also on helping students distinguish between those fingers. Still, schools typically pay little if any attention to finger discrimination, and few curriculums encourage this kind of mathematical work. Instead, many teachers have been led to believe that finger use is useless and something to be abandoned as quickly as possible. Finger research is part of a larger group of studies on cognition and the brain showing the importance of visual engagement with mathematics. Our brains are made up of distributed networks, and when we handle knowledge, different areas of the brain communicate with each other. When we work on mathematics, in particular, brain activity is distributed among many different networks, which include areas within the ventral and dorsal pathways, both of which are visual. Neuroimaging has shown that even when people work on a number calculation, such as 12 x 25, with symbolic digits (12 and 25) our mathematical thinking is grounded in visual processing. And people who are not strong visual thinkers probably need visual thinking more than anyone. Everyone uses visual pathways when we work on mathematics. The problem is it has been presented, for decades, as a subject of numbers and symbols, ignoring the potential of visual methods for transforming students’ mathematics experiences and developing important brain pathways. To engage students in productive visual thinking, they should be asked, at regular intervals, how they see mathematical ideas, and to draw what they see. They can be given activities with visual questions and they can be asked to provide visual solutions to questions. Such activities not only offer deep engagement, new understandings, and visual-brain activity, but they show students that mathematics can be an open and beautiful subject, rather than fixed, closed and impenetrable. ( Look in comments below to download free PDFs of such activities). Stopping students from using their fingers when they count could, according to brain research, be akin to halting their mathematical development. Fingers are probably one of our most useful visual aids, and the finger area of our brain is used well into adulthood. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4360562/ https://carleton.ca//wp-content/uploads/CSS07_pp740-penner https://www.theatlantic.com//why-kids-should-use-t/478053/ #neurochild #brainscience #abstractintelligence #mathematicalintelligence

05.01.2022 If you or anyone you know is feeling distressed and need assistance this weekend, please refer to the below organisations. You can find a range of other support... services at https://blackdoginstitute.org.au/getting-help Please note, these are Australian services. If you are in another country, please refer to your domestic Emergency Services and local Crisis Support Lines.

05.01.2022 Even when they steal the sun ... I'm staying!

04.01.2022 How long has it been since youve checked the ingredients panel on your favourite skin cream? I am almost certain it will have more than this one: shea butter, ...rosehip oil, beeswax and coconut oil. Once youve had a look, let me know if Im right Essential oils are always optional and a clever little trick is to make one balm, adding oils of choice to a small amount in your palm as you need it. That is almost guaranteed to help eliminate 6 other creams from your bathroom cabinet. This is why I love DIY - its so simple, it reduces waste and clutter, and in the long run will save you money too Find all of my balm recipes here https://theinspiredlittlepot.com.au/?s=Balm

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02.01.2022 World Elephant Day We have to make sure these beautiful wise majestic animals remain on this earth wild and free #worldelephantday

01.01.2022 Some useful information I found shared by a friend. Worth a read That bite of summer has well and truly come early this year and with that heat, comes snakes. ...This article was written by Rob Timmings Rob runs a medical/nursing education business Teaching nurses, doctors and paramedics. Its well worth the read #ECT4Health 3000 bites are reported annually. 300-500 hospitalisations 2-3 deaths annually. Average time to death is 12 hours. The urban myth that you are bitten in the yard and die before you can walk from your chook pen back to the house is a load of rubbish. While not new, the management of snake bite (like a flood/fire evacuation plan or CPR) should be refreshed each season. Lets start with a Basic overview. There are five genus of snakes that will harm us (seriously) Browns, Blacks, Adders, Tigers and Taipans. All snake venom is made up of huge proteins (like egg white). When bitten, a snake injects some venom into the meat of your limb (NOT into your blood). This venom can not be absorbed into the blood stream from the bite site. It travels in a fluid transport system in your body called the lymphatic system (not the blood stream). Now this fluid (lymph) is moved differently to blood. Your heart pumps blood around, so even when you are lying dead still, your blood still circulates around the body. Lymph fluid is different. It moves around with physical muscle movement like bending your arm, bending knees, wriggling fingers and toes, walking/exercise etc. Now here is the thing. Lymph fluid becomes blood after these lymph vessels converge to form one of two large vessels (lymphatic trunks)which are connected to veins at the base of the neck. Back to the snake bite site. When bitten, the venom has been injected into this lymph fluid (which makes up the bulk of the water in your tissues). The only way that the venom can get into your blood stream is to be moved from the bite site in the lymphatic vessels. The only way to do this is to physically move the limbs that were bitten. Stay still!!! Venom cant move if the victim doesnt move. Stay still!! Remember people are not bitten into their blood stream. In the 1980s a technique called Pressure immobilisation bandaging was developed to further retard venom movement. It completely stops venom /lymph transport toward the blood stream. A firm roll bandage is applied directly over the bite site (dont wash the area). Technique: Three steps: keep them still Step 1 Apply a bandage over the bite site, to an area about 10cm above and below the bite. Step 2: Then using another elastic roller bandage, apply a firm wrap from Fingers/toes all the way to the armpit/groin. The bandage needs to be firm, but not so tight that it causes fingers or toes to turn purple or white. About the tension of a sprain bandage. Step 3: Splint the limb so the patient cant walk or bend the limb. Do nots: Do not cut, incise or suck the venom. Do not EVER use a tourniquet Dont remove the shirt or pants - just bandage over the top of clothing. Remember movement (like wriggling out of a shirt or pants) causes venom movement. DO NOT try to catch, kill or identify the snake!!! This is important. In hospital we NO LONGER NEED to know the type of snake; it doesnt change treatment. 5 years ago we would do a test on the bite, blood or urine to identify the snake so the correct anti venom can be used. BUT NOW... we dont do this. Our new Antivenom neutralises the venoms of all the 5 listed snake genus, so it doesnt matter what snake bit the patient. Read that again- one injection for all snakes! Polyvalent is our one shot wonder, stocked in all hospitals, so most hospitals no longer stock specific Antivenins. Australian snakes tend to have 3 main effects in differing degrees. Bleeding - internally and bruising. Muscles paralysed causing difficulty talking, moving & breathing. Pain In some snakes severe muscle pain in the limb, and days later the bite site can break down forming a nasty wound. Allergy to snakes is rarer than winning lotto twice. Final tips: not all bitten people are envenomated and only those starting to show symptoms above are given antivenom. Did I mention to stay still. ~Rob Timmings Kingston/Robe Health Advisory #vrarescue #snakebite