Early release for Locals! Will be public on YouTube and audio podcast this weekend.
We talk about how compassion and suffering could matter if this world is a kind of illusion, the distinction between empathy and compassion as it relates to burnout, dorsal and ventral vagal mechanisms related to deep trauma conditioning, the true meaning of Christmas and the holiday season and MUCH more.
Please listen to our previous conversation on awakening and trauma here: https://zdoggmd.com/podcasting/awakening-heart/
Check out Simon's YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@Awakehereandnow
Here's that book by Ally Wise that Simon referenced: https://embodiedhealingbook.com/
Fun captioned vertical version of our recent YouTube Live conversation, with no ads, here for Locals fam!
Axe throwing is SURPRISINGLY therapeutic for that recently discovered repressed anger.
10/10, would recommend.
Today's interview with legendary vaccine researcher Paul Offit. Video version coming shortly!
🐾 Another patient admitted to The Dog's hospital. I swear this dog was a nurse in a past life - and she was THE GREATEST NURSE! 🤣
Nursing Shift Handover
Outgoing Nurse: Flash, RN (Border Collie)
Patient: Gerald, Lamb, Day 7 of life
FLASH: Right. Gerald. One-week-old male lamb. Here's your handover, try to keep up.
Personal care completed at 14:00 — full bed bath, skin integrity intact. I also performed an unauthorised facial hygiene intervention with my tongue. It was instinctive. I stand by it. Gerald's expression was neutral-to-positive.
Nutrition: bottle feed administered at 15:30, full volume taken, no issues. He did headbutt the bottle once but I've documented that as enthusiastic oral engagement.
Mobility: patient is now ambulatory. Four-limb weight-bearing achieved. Gait is — look, the word "gait" is generous, but he's upright and moving, which is the goal.
Elimination: bowels open, output noted and charted. Urinalysis — well. He did it on my paw. Colour was satisfactory. I ...
