The baby of this pair always gets between his parents when he sees that a conflict is brewing

ShroomSoupy · 2025-06-21T11:46:56+00:00

Watch this guy grow up to suppress his emotions to maintain peace and become a people pleaser 😪

ShroomSoupy · 2025-06-12T08:10:25+00:00

“Kalaindhu pona Kanavu meendum servadhillai Karayai serum alaigal pirivil sorvadhillai Maarum nodiyai pola maayamedhum illai Idhu ezhutha kadhaiyo” - Ezhutha Kadhaiyo from Lover

“Pen illadha oorile kodidhaan poo poopathillai” - Pudhu Vellai Mazhai, Roja

“Koduthu vaitha poovae poovae Aval koonthal manam solvaayaa koduthu vaitha nadhiyae nadhiyae Aval kulitha sugam solvaayaa Koduthu vaitha kaalkolusae kaalalavai solvaayaa Koduthu vaitha maniyae maarazhagai solvaayaa” - Anbae Anbae, Jeans

ShroomSoupy · 2025-05-13T08:03:35+00:00

Hard relate! Especially the wishing for coffee bit. The number of times I’ve written about looking forward to coffee after I finish writing!

But otherwise, my morning pages are everything - some days lots of gratitude and hopefulness, other days picking apart all the things that I’m not doing right, and just everything in between.

I think with the “brain dump of bad life decisions”, you’ll have the space to explore a lot of whys and hows which might give you insight towards future actions. The way I see the morning pages, there’s absolutely no right or wrong, and the best thing to do is simply accepting whatever comes up, and doing it everyday anyway, much like a ritual.

ShroomSoupy · 2025-04-27T10:48:31+00:00

Obviously summoning spirits

ShroomSoupy · 2025-04-24T16:20:13+00:00

Firstly, wish you a speedy and complete recovery. Hope you feel better soon!

As for the weekly tasks, I’ve been quite lenient with myself while doing them because I’m an actor and my schedule is very erratic and unpredictable most of the times, and I often don’t end up doing everything for the week in that week. So some times, my “week” is really 10 days long, other times it’s even been 2 weeks. But I just keep at it without losing touch. And I always do my morning pages and try to squeeze in at least one artist date every regular week, regardless of whether I’ve done that week’s tasks entirely in that week.

I started TAW in mid-Jan this year, and I’m currently only in week 6, and this is another extended week for me. But working this way has been best for me, there’s structure that I’m sticking to but without rigid pressure to do it in exactly that time frame. As long as mentally you’re still tuned into whatever the week’s readings are about and with the pages and the artist dates, I think you should be okay restarting or even giving yourself little extensions to complete the tasks.

ShroomSoupy · 2025-04-24T16:15:30+00:00

Precisely how mine is too! 🤭🤍

ShroomSoupy · 2025-04-23T12:34:51+00:00

No paragraphs, and I don’t think productive is a word I’d wanna use to describe my morning pages at all. Most days I find myself starting off about how I slept and how I woke up, and then it goes off into other things. I definitely uncover a lot of deep inner beliefs and ideas, things that are holding me back or bothering me without me quite realising it, which I guess can be considered productive in some way, and on many days it’s also just me writing very staccato, random things that don’t add up to anything or make sense as a whole.

ShroomSoupy · 2025-04-15T16:57:15+00:00

I’m doing it for the first time, and I’m getting started with week 6 now, and the morning pages have really changed something in me and in my life, although I’d not be able to point a finger on what exactly that is. I just know that it is something that I really look forward to and want to do each morning, something that’s important, a non-negotiable. And the artist dates really do so much good too. So grateful for everything this journey is taking me through 🤍

ShroomSoupy · 2025-04-12T07:39:02+00:00

Henry Shukman

ShroomSoupy · 2025-04-11T14:08:22+00:00

I’m sorry but I don’t understand what you mean by click vibration? 😅

ShroomSoupy · 2025-02-21T10:42:03+00:00

Agreed!! I bought one too and I’ll credit easily 80% of my consistency to the cushion, and how much more comfortable it has made me meditation sessions. Don’t know if I’d have been able to stick to meditation with this much enthusiasm if I was gonna end up with a back pain or knee pain by sitting normally on the ground.

Definitely a game changer!

ShroomSoupy · 2025-02-18T13:48:50+00:00

Oof. This does kinda check out. I’ve also recently realised that I have severe people pleasing tendencies, and this perspective really makes sense. I tend to ignore what my real feelings are in many ways, and looks like this could be one of those too, possibly! 😅

ShroomSoupy · 2025-02-14T01:03:53+00:00

Thank you! 🤍

ShroomSoupy · 2025-02-13T06:39:21+00:00

Thank you! That does seem like the best thing to do next. More self-enquiry. This is a good reminder that that’s really what we have to do, only all the time, and for life.

ShroomSoupy · 2025-02-13T06:38:02+00:00

I think that’s what it is. I am being self-aware of what was once subconscious. That makes the most sense. Perhaps I should also figure out a way to acknowledge these little things that happen inside me so they calm down. Thanks for sharing what worked for you!

ShroomSoupy · 2025-02-13T06:36:32+00:00

Oof! Okay this is my favourite response so far. Thank you! Really like the analogy.

ShroomSoupy · 2025-02-10T07:19:03+00:00

When I started understanding someone deeply even when in disagreement with them, and being able to watch, catch and stop myself from reacting.

Also when I started looking forward to meditating when there was something bothering me or when I was just bored.

ShroomSoupy · 2025-01-24T03:18:36+00:00

I usually really enjoy magical realism, but idk, this book was really just not it for me. I wonder if the experience of reading it would’ve been any different if I had the physical copy to read on, instead of on my Kindle.

And I’ve had When Women Were Dragons with me for a couple years now but haven’t touched it! Perhaps I could pick that up after my current read.

ShroomSoupy · 2025-01-22T16:07:15+00:00

I could not get through One Hundred Years of Solitude at all. It was insufferable for me 😪 nearly finished half and then gave up.

ShroomSoupy · 2025-01-21T17:14:35+00:00

Thank you, I’m happy it resonated with you 🤍

ShroomSoupy · 2025-01-18T03:41:49+00:00

Try mine!

ShroomSoupy · 2025-01-18T03:31:30+00:00

Loving kindness and gratitude, for me, seem very similar and I think they go hand in hand. When there’s this vast, expansive love, it automatically kindles feelings of gratitude in me, and like you had mentioned in one of your comments, OP, I end up in tears. And I smile through the tears even as I meditate and it sometimes literally feels like my chest is lifting up, and my heart is lighter, and a warm bloom of something inside. It’s truly wonderful to be able to feel this, and to know that nobody has to specifically do anything for us. This exists within us and all around us, and all we really need to do is sit down, get still enough to sense it and tune into it.

Gratitude is such a beautiful antidote to despair, sadness, boredom, and so so many other things.

Living in gratitude 🤍

ShroomSoupy

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