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Euphrates Jerboa (Scarturus euphraticus), family Dipodidae, Lebanon

My entry was selected for the Berlin Fanfest Art Contest, I'm so glad!! 😭

Greetings from Ishgard, my love letter to the city, Heavensward, and its characters 💙

Everyone did such a great job, it's a treat looking at the entries and an honor to be alongside them! 🩷 You can look at them and vote here:

And have a few close up!

if there's a task, especially a recurring one, that you find difficult to do and that you keep avoiding, check whether you're in pain or physical discomfort.

For a long time I would avoid doing tasks like showering because they nebulously made me feel 'bad' or i just instinctively felt like avoiding them. It wasn't until I got a shower chair that I realised standing to shower was causing me pain. My bodymind knew that on some level but didn't tell the conscious me.

Similarly with sensory aversions (things you don't like). Before I got kitchen gloves, I did the dishes but it took me a long time and I never wanted to. Afterward, it got a lot easier to motivate myself.

"But how can you not know you're in pain/uncomfortabke?" Extremely easily if your brain is wired a specific way or if you were taught, intentionally or not, to downplay your own experiences or distance yourself from your body.