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by virtue of being alive, we are going to hurt, because that's a part of being a person and having emotions — just like if you go for a lovely walk in the forest, you might get bitten by a bug or stung by a nettle. if you're constantly upsetting yourself with scenarios that might never happen and probably won't, consider how you could try and stop yourself itching that bug bite or nettle sting when it happens.

if you're waiting to hear from somebody and they're not replying in their usual timely manner, instead of automatically assuming they hate you now or they've been in a car accident, instead, sit with the discomfort of uncertainty a little while. maybe even try putting a little cream on your bite or sting to soothe the itching — call a different friend, journal your feelings stream-of-consciousness style, say what you're feeling out loud so it's out of your head. give yourself the advice you'd give a friend if they were having these worries.

name and notice the feeling. don't just try and push it away, because that avoidance makes it worse. more often than not, you'll find that in acknowledging the feelings and recognising that theyre there, instead of spiralling out or repressing them, that pain lessens and goes away on its own. the discomfort of waiting it out is far less prominent and painful than the spiral of "what if" until you're sobbing. 90% of the time, that pain you were anticipating will never come, because the catastrophic circumstances you invented will never come true.

This is not to say that feeling anger is abusive; it's human to feel anger. But if you've ever felt like your anger was "unjustified" or were afraid to express it outwardly because you expected it to be dismissed ... ask yourself how you would react if the roles were reversed. I find that a lot of folks who were The Grown Up in a relationship with their parents hold themselves to much different standards than they hold other people.

Fantastic article!! The guys looking for it were fish researchers who saw it one time, knew instantly it was an undescribed species, and then tried for nearly 20 years to find and document it!

It's a type of ghost pipefish, related to seahorses, and it floats around coral reefs looking like a piece of algae and hunting unsuspecting prey

They are, of course, named after Snuffleufagus from Sesame Street!

Later on it the project, they got citizen science involved, and people across the Pacific started reporting sightings of snuffy fish from all over!