Rachel Nolan, music therapy & psychotherapy

11/17/2025

11/16/2025

Per uje, notice it with setting boundaries within a self, too.

We all wish setting a limit looked like:
➡️ “No” → instant cooperation

But in real life?
Setting a limit is rarely a straight line — and it’s not because you’re doing it wrong.
It’s because children learn boundaries through connection, not compliance.

A realistic limit-setting moment might look like:
✔️ pushback
✔️ big feelings
✔️ validation
✔️ holding the limit
✔️ getting curious
✔️ working with your child, not against them

And eventually… cooperation arrives.

If it feels messy, emotional and repetitive — that’s parenting.
Limits stick best when they’re delivered with calm, empathy and consistency… not perfection.

✨ You’re not failing. You’re teaching.

11/15/2025

11/15/2025

06/06/2025

Get out of their heads, make a home in yours. You can do what you want to do and be how you want to be.

02/04/2025

!!

04/03/2024

(it counts)

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04/03/2024

Always always parenting ourselves with the choices we make, the messages we give ourselves about what is and isn't worth doing for the fragile and suggestible little human that is us.

01/22/2024

Honestly.

Tumblr user eldritchbagel:

You're just a mammal. Let yourself act like it. Your brain needs enrichment. Your body needs rest. You feel hunger and grow hair. You need to pack bond with other sentient things so you don't become unsocialized and neurotic. You are biologically inclined to seek dopamine and become sick when chronically stressed. "Hedonism" is made up to place moral value on taking pleasure in sensory experiences. I am telling you that if you don't let yourself be a fu***ng mammal, as you were made, you will suffer and go insane. No grindset no diets no trying to be above your drive for connection. Pursue what makes you feel good and practice radial rejection of the constructs meant to turn you into a machine. You're a mammal.

Tumblr user ldritchbagel:

I am so serious about the way people are taught to view themselves as separate from and above any other animal being the root cause of a lot of problems. You're not better than a beast.