https://catherinewatters.substack.com/p/we-are-in-serious-trouble
https://www.patreon.com/posts/68671619
If we can't say it we can never fix it.
I feel that I speak a language not many people understand because I've been so passionate about understanding health and fitness in mind, body and soul since the 70s.
I dove so deep into understanding health, science, the effects on child abuse on health, how a healthy family system is supposed to function, healthy relationships are supposed to function.
What it means to BE a healthy adult physically, emotionally and spiritually.I knew health wasn't just about the body.
Most people took little interest in physical health and fitness never mind emotional or relationship health and fitness. Due to feeling so Traumatized and health harmed since I was a child, teen and young adult
I was desperate to find the answers and get out of my situation. But, finding the answers and dotting the i's and crossing the t's more times than I can count over the decades did Nothing to improve my situation. In fact, I was making it worse.
That’s how inverted this system has been for so long. Going in the right direction is going in the "wrong" direction in the good ol USA!
Even as I write this I feel, what's the use? Is there anyone who gets it? Is there anyone to understand? It was always clear that I lived by a different measuring tool than others. I could not help since I had a harder "workout" since I was a child than others that I was forced to live and function at a harder pace.
The body simply has a normal response to the Threat and acts accordingly. If those around you didn't listen and respond also, your body has that much more weight on it.
Why wouldn't those who are supposed to be Family and neighbors listen? What or Who is measuring whether a Family is healthy or not?
Who is going to say when something or someone falls short of what mark? I knew what I lived, experienced, witnessed and KNEW since 1970 as a child then teen in my own "home".
Neglect and abuse. No one cared. More people added to that trauma by trying to shut me up to this day. People sold themselves out when they sold me out 5 decades ago.
No one is counting on someone being wide awake all these decades and paying attention to everything that's been going on.
I worked out HARD in my life physically, emotionally and spiritually due to the weight and abuse that those who should be your protectors dump on you.
Then I get Zero recognition for responding to it successfully.
There is Simply NO OTHER WAY TO SAY IT. FAMILY AND NEIGHBORS ARE THE ENEMY. You think there's just police brutally or corrupt politicians, banksters, Corporate government corruption? The Enemies are everywhere.
There's no escape.
There's so much dysfunction no one tells one another the truth. Due to having it so hard I told the brutal truth and people didn't like it. They coddled each other for decades.
I was about fitness in mind, body and spirit. We could have been in a much better place if health and fitness was valued more instead of debt notes.
I dug into a topic I KNEW to be unpopular and very uncomfortable but, very needed. Relationships, dysfunction, enabling, co- dependency, abuse.
Just because something is uncomfortable doesn't mean it isn't necessary or the right direction.
Because I was put down so much, undermined, robbed, treated like there was something "wrong" with me because those around didn't like what I was saying, I needed to work harder, work out, study than others who didn't do any of those things yet, walk around shameless acting like they know and are better than you.
Others are not necessarily smarter, or better they just weren't put down as much so they walk around disoriented like they're satisfactory when they're not.
Because most people don't speak the truth and act "nice" instead. We've live in such a dysfunctional system for so long.
A relative posted on social media; #ThoughtfulThursday…I challenge YOU!
To all of my female friends from 50 years and up... most of us are going through a challenging phase of our lives. We're at that age where we see wrinkles, gray hair, and extra pounds. We've run households, had careers, raised families, paid the bills, dealt with sickness, sadness, grief, and everything else life has assigned us. We are survivors... we are warriors in the quiet... we are Women...aged like a classic car or a fine wine. Even if our bodies are not what they once were, they carry our histories, our souls, our courage, and our strength. We should never feel bad about getting older. It's a privilege that is denied to so many. Enjoy every minute.
Ladies I challenge you to copy proudly with your picture and age.
My Age: 52
#beyourbestself #challenge #ThoughtfulThursday
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I'm tired of feeling that we can't speak brutal truth. I'm SICK of it.
The post had about 50 some odd likes. More than anything I post.
It’s Obvious people go more for the Light Weight posts than the Heavy Weight posts I put up.
Post that CALL Adults to BE ADULTS. TO take responsibilityaway from the Sociopaths that are running the country and world and get it in GEAR!
Like I had to 5 decades ago and NOT leave the bill for the children.
Adults should be able to Handle and even welcome hard punches.
Not run away or be offended by them.
IT goes to show you the Total LACK of Health and Fitness of a Normal Adult.
This is someone whose been quite overweight for much of their life, grew up dysfunctional but, will never know it, 2 brothers who are dead because of that dysfunction, 2 failed marriages, single parent, lives at home with her father, my uncle, recently lost some weight.
Now I've been killing myself for decades trying to raise the bar. I've been around them enough for them to know and see me each time for whatever Holiday or family celebration that I'm fitter every time they see me while they're fatter and more out of shape.
Not Once was I ever asked for advice to help ANY "relative, cousin" exercise or lose weight.
Ever.
I was actually the Criminal for doing fitness because if people acknowledged it they would have had to admit i was forced to do it in order to take responsibility for my own life due to being FAILED MISERABLY.
I should really call all the exercise I was doing REHAB, physical therapy NOT fitness.
Its like saying someone learning physical therapy who's in a wheelchair from being hit by a car is doing fitness.
I was doing PHYSICAL THERAPY on myself to Rehabilitate myself from the onslaught of abuse THEN being gaslit when I stood up for myself and spoke truth about it and sought support.
People are BLIND to how they've cut down the trees that would have saved them!
There is NO healthy relating! ZERO!
They set whatever low bar measure they want for themselves.
Walk around patting themselves on the back never acknowledging their Failures.
Giving themselves a AAA rating on junk.
That’s how this country functions.
Hardly anyone is oriented.
There isn't anything or anyone giving anyone else REAL Challenging feedback so they can be Fitter.
Coddling isn't going to get people healthy. Its going to make them less fit.
Thats how people lived my entire life.
This is why people are adult children today.
Grown people should be able to handle brutal truth.
They give the abuse to children who DON'T DESERVE IT, and coddle and enable the "adults" who it should go to to avoid healthy conflict.
I had to be the Healthy, fit adult for myself I needed 5 decades ago.
This is not a good indicator of the shift that’s taken place in the last half a century.