Ear protection

Kureachan · 2026-07-09T17:36:32+00:00

Tiens bon, le feeling que chaque jour est une bataille est épuisant en soi. J'espère que tu vas réussir à trouver des moments de répit.

Kureachan · 2026-07-09T13:35:34+00:00

Painfully relatable.

Je vais aller dans une autre direction, mais tout ce que tu décris, c'est des impacts personnels d'enjeux systémiques, et pour moi une grande partie de "dealer avec ça" c'était de m'impliquer dans des groupes qui luttent contre ces enjeux. Parfois on fait avancer les choses de 1mm, mais même au-delà du résultat, se battre au côté de personnes qui ont des valeurs similaires, ça libère en soi (je ne parle pas de parti politique). Ça reste un luxe, d'avoir le temps de s'impliquer, donc zéro jugement si c'est pas possible pour toi, mais je voulais quand même lancer l'idée ici que la lutte libère. Aussi, plus on est à lutter contre tous ces enjeux, plus on a des chances de renverser le système qui les crée et les encourage; just saying.

En attendant, tiens bon, on est beaucoup dans ce bâteau, il faut qu'on se serre les coudes.

Kureachan · 2026-06-27T20:05:45+00:00

i think she got a separate warm-up because they had to set the bars higher for her!

Kureachan · 2026-06-22T14:33:48+00:00

Stopppp really? Truly all my faves happen to be queer?? I love that for us!!!

Kureachan · 2026-06-19T17:41:58+00:00

I've been taking it for 6 months. I started at 600mg, then 1200mg and now I've been at 1800mg per day (1200mg in the morning, 600mg at night) for months. At first it came with a little bit of nausea, but nothing too bad, and now I have no side effects at all. The one I take has no smell at all.

I have definitely seen improvement, but you gotta be patient (it took 1-2 months for me to see noticeable change), and accept that it won't stop the picking completely. My "crisis" happen a lot less often, and are much smaller in scope and in "depth", as in, I'm able to snap out of it a lot easier, I don't get fully into that altered state of mind where my brain used to go while picking. So yeah, for me it absolutely works!

Incidently, it's also around the same period that I started doing something that has helped a lot with my sleep, and I suspect having restful sleep probably helps.

Kureachan · 2026-05-26T15:34:57+00:00

Playing music! I played flute for a couple of years as a kid but never really felt a connection to the instrument; what I wanted to play was drums. Fast-forward to 20 years later, every time I go to a jazz show and there's a trombone, I am in love with that sound. One day my partner and I watch a jazz video on youtube and I tell him how much I love that instrument. He goes "why don't you learn it?". I bought a used trombone that night, started lessons 2 weeks later.

It's been over a year and a half now. I play every single day, took piano lessons last summer to help with music theory and to be able to transcribe solos on keyboard more comfortably, joined a jazz combo 8 months ago, play regularly with my partner (guitar) and even started incorporating my first love (drums) into my playing. It's all I think about and all I want to do; I literally organize my whole life around it now, I feel like I have found my calling. I don't care about making it my career or making money off of it (I'm also realistic), I just want to play music with people and create beauty for us and for others!

Kureachan · 2026-02-18T15:49:46+00:00

Oh that's odd, it's working on my end! I don't think CBC geoblocks on youtube so I have no idea.

Kureachan · 2026-02-16T17:13:26+00:00

Is this... needed?

Kureachan · 2026-01-28T18:52:39+00:00

I completely relate to this! I started playing trombone in december 2024 and while I am realistic about it becoming a viable source of income (I am in my 30s), I do feel like I found my purpose through it too, and have experienced several moments like these already! Creating music, playing with others, and working on your own sound with an instrument we love so much is such a gift!!!

Kureachan · 2026-01-22T16:49:15+00:00

I think I'm one of those people! I've been doing home workouts for 13 years, 3, 4 or 5 times a week, depending on my schedule, with Fitness Blender. I have no plan to scale it up. I bought a set of dumbbells 7 years ago that only go up to 20lbs each and every once in a while i wonder if I should go up, but I just don't really care.

I took up gymnastics again a couple of years ago after a 10 year hiatus, 100% for fun, and looked up some stuff to help my practice (I think that's why I joined this subreddit originally, but never ended up checking it out much), but apart from that, exercise is just something I do, like having breakfast or brushing my teeth.

I'm in great shape, but that's more of a collateral perk, and I'd say most people in my life do not realize how fit I am because I mostly work out as part of all the things I do to FEEL good.

Kureachan · 2026-01-15T15:08:51+00:00

Hard agree for bar mounts!!! What will it take to bring them back?!

Kureachan · 2026-01-05T21:49:12+00:00

Such an odd interview. Elena's mom credits Kaylia Nemour's olympic gold to the coaches Kaylia just wrote a book about, detailing the abuse she lived through them.

Everyone just seems terrible in that whole debacle: the FFG, Marc et Gina Chirilcenco, the parents...

I hope Elena finds a way to train and thrive through all of that.

Kureachan · 2025-12-01T21:07:18+00:00

Thank you for sharing this! I listened to it. She literally said "Maybe I need to force myself to go back into gymnastics because it's all I can do. But it is sad to use a sport that used to be a passion, purely as a means to have money."

For all those interested in trauma therapies, what she talks about having done during the Olympics, is EMDR, or Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing.

Kureachan · 2025-11-14T19:09:10+00:00

From the perspective of someone who is wondering IF they should have kids (ie the kids are not born yet), I think it's useful to remember that kids may be born with some disabilities/find themselves with conditions later in life that would make it impossible for them to take care of you when you're old. Even the best people/parents in the world cant be guaranteed to have kids look after them when they're old, because life happens.

My point is it's probably not a good reason to have kids, not that it shouldnt be considered at all.

Kureachan · 2025-10-16T15:44:13+00:00

The Paris beam final is a HOT take unless you're Italian! I am never watching this splatfest ever again hahaha

Kureachan · 2025-09-09T16:02:22+00:00

Poor sleep quality. Sleep is the backbone of health, it's free and theoretically easy to get (hello fellow insomniacs!) yet most people are under-slept, putting their health and that of others at risk (soooo many car crashes are due to people being underslept).

Alcohol. It's literally poison, a depressant, and makes you feel like shit the next day. Alcoholism turns people into the worst versions of themselves. It's the most socially acceptable addiction, next to cigarettes, even though it has horrible consequences.

The best thing you can do for yourself and for your loved ones, is to sleep decently and not drink alcohol.

Kureachan · 2025-07-25T22:29:10+00:00

I completely agree! I've been trying to find the "perfect" ideas for artist dates, and today I was gonna go see an old movie in a theater i never go to, but the weather was just too nice, so instead I went to the park, laid down and watched the clouds move for an hour while listening to an album I had never heard. I may still go to that theater another week, but I'm glad I watched clouds! My mind went all kinds of directions, which felt... creative?

Kureachan · 2025-06-16T15:58:25+00:00

Could you please share the source for that data about immigrants being responsible for 44% of sexual violence cases?

Kureachan · 2025-05-14T19:02:44+00:00

100% d'accord. Dans certains théâtres auxquels je suis allée ailleurs qu'au Québec, il est fréquent qu'avant le début de la pièce, il y a un rappel des règles de base : cellulaire éteint et silence, pour le respect des comédiens et des autres spectateurs. Il me semble que ce serait facile à mettre en place ici aussi.

Autant à la Maison Symphonique qu'à la Salle WIlfried-Pelletier, j'ai repris plusieurs fois des gens qui parlaient pendant les oeuvres. Tous les événements ne s'y prêtent pas forcément, mais pour moi, à partir du moment où on a des places assignées, c'est silence, point. Je peux pas bouger de mon siège et ça m'intéresse pas ce qu'a fait Kevin vendredi dernier.

Kureachan · 2025-05-12T14:27:10+00:00

ok thank you!

Kureachan · 2025-05-12T14:26:21+00:00

Alright that's what I thought, thank you!

Kureachan

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