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Champion of the Outsider, Listener to the Survivor! Loving slave 🐶 @marlabastine.bsky.social 🧠Sleep/Trauma Psychologist 📕Set Me Free (Feb ‘26 LittleBrown) 🎬Children of the Cult 🎓 Cult kid personality development Rep’d: @sileloquies.bsky.social
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Cried again last night to one of my favourite films: City of Angels. I first saw it when I was 19, less than a year out the cult - it made such an impression I went out & bought Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast on my £3.50ph salary. I’ve lost count how many times I’ve seen it & Wings of Desire.

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#Traumarecovery is realizing your #impostersyndrome is just old lies in a new outfit.

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Hey, @ox.ac.uk, how about an honorary degree for this woman pilot with a PhD in aviation safety, whose employer hired a crooked psychiatrist to label her mentally ill after she blew the whistle on safety practices? She fought (for years) and won. www.seattletimes.com/business/boe...

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#Traumarecovery is wild: One day you’re thriving. The next, you’re spiraling over an email greeting.

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When I first left the cult, out in a world I was not made for, shunned, I felt like the invisible child who gets ignored so effectively, they start doubting their existence. #cultkid #traumarecovery

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There was a time when every compliment felt like a loan I couldn’t repay. Now I say ‘Thank you’ and let the good vibes melt through me. Here’s what I learnt in #therapy & what I now apply in my clinical work: #traumarecovery 🧵👇

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My spice tolerance is a mix of everywhere I’ve lived. #TCK

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#TCK translation: ‘I’m adaptable’ = ‘I’m constantly code-switching and slightly disoriented.’

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Therapist: How do you deal with #impostersyndrome?’ Me: ‘I write posts about it and hope for validation.’

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My #impostersyndrome wakes up before me, fully caffeinated and ready to sabotage.

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Therapist: What’s holding you back?’ Me: gestures vaguely at the trauma cloud over my head. #traumarecovery

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New Brain: ‘You belong here.’ Old Brain: ‘Define belong.’ #impoostersyndrome

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In the early days, it was all so overwhelming. Brunch small talk sounded like white noise. I’m nodding to survive.

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Normie: ‘What’s your job?’ Me: ‘I make up for 20 years of lost context.’ #traumarecovery #cultkid

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Delicious themes for this season of White Lotus

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My kinda day

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With Handmaids Tale people focus on the shock of the mass rapes in the book and the show. But how the regime came to be in power in that book keeps me awake at night because it is playing out in very intricate detail in our real lives right now.

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You’re playing chess. I’m playing Sorry. My therapist keeps telling me to stop apologizing

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That moment when you have a falling pile on your TBR list but none quite capture your mood. Help me choose, I'm only allowed one.

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This Sunday, I’m folded into the hauntingly poetic world of 🌌 #BlueSky Reads & #Dystopian Dreams 📚✨

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I don’t know who this is (a scam-bait text) but the fact that it could literally be ANYONE I spoke to today or on any day really is a bit unsettling. My “day” will turn around in 4 years, random friend.

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And here we are, installment 67 of our tour through American fear and horror on film - maybe a nice break from some of the other horrors we're dealing with - check out...1946's THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE!

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🔴Silicon Valley Whistleblowers Warn Elon Musk ‘Hijacking’ Republicans to Control Entire US Government Former followers of the ‘Dark Enlightenment’ say a planned ‘neo-reactionary’ hollowing out of government is happening in real time bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/s...

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