BreatheDeeply’s Profile
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About Me
Some fun stuff: My favorite color is green. I prefer chunky peanut butter. I love fun mugs found at thrift stores. I am fascinated with apes, also elephants. I like 80's movies. I am obsessed with cooking shows. I think farts are funny. I love dinosaurs and any other evolution stuff. I have a theory about aliens being people from the future. Other stuff: I am a jazz musician and professor of music in higher education. I strongly believe in being as we wish others to become and am a raging liberal. I hug trees regularly and consider myself quite a survivor. "The love that your heart longs for is the recognition of your Self in all Selves, and the recognition of all Selves in your Self". Swami Veda Bharati
Interests
music, food, hugs, animals, humans, breathing, reading, random acts of kindness, being present.
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Recent Activity
October 5
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BreatheDeeply gave Holstar a Hug 12:05am
so glad to hear about your success today! hope the rest of the weekend treats you well and you get lots…
October 1
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BreatheDeeply gave Holstar a Hug 10:27pm
gosh...hopefully this all just brings you closer to figuring out solutions...all the stuff eyes posted…
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BreatheDeeply commented on Holstar’s photo/video 11:11am
meow baby...i love this! what Eyes said is so cool too...:)…
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BreatheDeeply commented on Holstar’s photo/video 11:10am
yay holly! this all looks wonderful!…
September 29
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BreatheDeeply gave Eyesopen a Hug 9:23am
i had a dream with you in it last night...holly was in it too! she and i went out for the evening (just…
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Journal
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I know you are taking a break from here..but just wanted to say that I am thinking about you and also..I love bato's avatar. It is awesome..the country cat...meow!!!
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thanks Breathe..I can feel your light and postive energy! IT's working.
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Kiss
thank you dearest. Love you. Love the comment. You are good with boundaries!
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Ha, I sent you love here too!:) I must like you or something;)
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My dear Breathe. Thankyou so much for looking in on my journal and commenting on my pics. It means a lot. It is good to know that friends are still there no mater how long it is since you spoke last....crappy english but you know what I mean. Well it has been around a year or so since we first met on here, that is something isn't it. So much has happened hasn't it. But I think I know who's who and what's what now. :-) Thanks for still being here. Jx
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Support Groups
Close Physical & Emotional Abuse
I grew up with an unpredictable, militant, and often verbally abusive father. He mostly targeted my brother and mother. He died when I was eleven. I dated a continuous stream of men that had issues with anger and control and eventually lived with an abuser for 2.5 years before getting out. I am now happily married to a beautiful and stable human being. I continue to battle issues of anxiety and fear daily. I hope to be a source of comfort and peace to other people in similar situations.
Treatments
- Forgiveness Working / Worked
- I have learned that carrying around anger and negativity in general is not the sort of contribution I want to make to the universe. Also, the person's problems are their own, I now have compassion for them and send them healing energy if any.
- Group Therapy Working / Worked
- In high school I was in a grief counseling group for students that had lost immediate family members...a large dose of beautiful perspective.
- Leave Working / Worked
- I'm out! It was very difficult and we weren't even married. I stayed with friends and was far from family. Best decision I've made in my whole life.
- Music Working / Worked
- I've been a musician for my entire life...I don't really use it therapeudically, it's just what I do. Although, it gets me higher than any drug.
- Psychotherapy Working / Worked
- We went to one couples counseling session and in that safe environment I said I didn't want to fix our relationship. Without that safety I don't know if I could have done it. After leaving him I also left the therapist since I couldn't afford it.
- Talking Working / Worked
- I have amazing friends who listen and don't push.
Close Vegetarians & Vegans
Type: VegetarianI stopped eating meat at age eleven/twelve as a response to my father's death mainly for animal cruelty reasons. Now it's been almost twenty years and it's like a religion for me. I have found that there are countless reasons to go veg! I feel very strongly and secretly wish the whole world would do it.
Open Healthy Eating
Being a vegetarian and healthy eating go hand in hand for me. The old saying, "you are what you eat" rings true. When i put good things into my body, it feels good. This saying also works for my mind and spirit. I make being a compassionate and positive person a priority and voila!...i enjoy life more and recognize the beauty in other people.
Open Bereavement
Type: Loss of a Parentmy dad passed away when i was 11. it was very sudden and left me with many unresolved questions and a void the size of a black hole.
Treatments
- Grief Counseling Somewhat Helpful
- nothing can heal a child from the death of their parent. but it was helpful to talk.
- Music Working / Worked
- music basically became my life shortly after this experience.
- Time Working / Worked
- ...this is the ultimate healer of all problems...
Open Anxiety
i don't have any sort of "diagnosed disorder but i experience symptoms such as high blood pressure, overheating, and what i call "stomach explosions". the stomach stuff can be really awful. ouch.
Treatments
- Breathwork Working / Worked
- when my stomach is in severe pain, i breathe my way through it. i feel like i'm about to give birth to an alien baby but it works to get through the pain.
- Meditation Working / Worked
- "going home" and centering my spiritual energy everyday definitely helps. highly recommended for a plethora of reasons.
- Positive Thinking Working / Worked
- you are what you eat.
Open Family Issues
my goodness, who DOESN'T have family issues?? mine are hard to explain...but yeah. they aren't crazy bad, more like generally unhealthy.
Treatments
- Psychotherapy Working / Worked
- i'm working on it, doing some reprogramming, some energy healing, and inner child healing.
- Talking Working / Worked
- my husband wins the "most supportive" award.
- Writing Working / Worked
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