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**Make Your Damn Bed**

@MYDBpodcast is a bite sized, real talk, daily motivation podcast to play while you make your bed every morning. Build momentum – better your life.

Each episode is around 10 minutes and intended to encourage, motivate, and inspire you to get out of bed – so you can start making it!

Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

All content, including text, graphics, images and information, is for general information purposes only. This content is presented on an “as-is” basis.

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Latest Episodes:

1368 || some simple ways to opt out Feb 20, 2025

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Some ways to opt out:

Cancel superfluous subscriptions,

Shop at local grocers and small ethnic markets for groceries.

Reduce meat + dairy consumption.

Boycott fast fashion.

Digital detox.

Avoid single use plastics.

Opt out of all data tracking.

Refuse to participate in "grind culture".

Avoid trendy diets.

Don't engage with trolls or trash content.

Support worker strikes + boycotts.

Reject overachieving + perfectionism.

Cancel Amazon Prime.

Buy secondhand or borrow.

Rely on the library first.

SOURCES: https://www.businessinsider.com/subscription-services-forgotten-cost-consumers-payments-2022-6

https://x.com/IAmAaronWill/status/1441745602786779136

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The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

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1367 || opting out Feb 19, 2025

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Sometimes, the most powerful form of protest isn’t about what you do, it's about what you don't do.

The simplest way to fight back against a system that thrives on your consumption is to simply... opt out of it as much as humanly possible.

It’s going to be super inconvenient at first, but once you get the hang of it you’ll realize the perks: it’s better for the environment, better for your wallet, and a surprisingly powerful tool to weaponize in a capitalist society.

And the best part? You don’t have to do anything. In fact, the less you do, the better.

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1366 || dysregulation as resistance Feb 18, 2025

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@pat.radical.therapist asks: "What if dysregulation is a form of resistance?" and "What if liberation isn't in the perfect regulation of our nervous systems but in the deep, embodied permission to exist as we are - in movement, in mess, in rage, in laughter, in all the things that were never meant to be tamed?" - Patricia

Trying to regulate our dysregulation the time, instead of really listening to it, can be counterintuitive.

Maybe it's time we stop trying to ground ourselves in unstable soil. Maybe it's time we listened to what our nervous system is saying instead of trying to battle it into submission.

"Our healing is not about being soothed into submission. It is about remembering that we are meant to feel, meant to move, meant to be alive in our fullest range." - Prentis Hemphill

@Pat.Radical.Therapist IG post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DFdJtaYOIfw/?img_index=6&igsh=NmJoZmY2N3IwY2dj

3 stages of trauma recovery: https://healingfromcomplexptsd.com/stages-trauma-recovery/

@sia_ontheotherside IG post: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCT_cwfOoeE/?igsh=MnVtNHczc3IxaWFw

Psychotherapist Pete Walker: https://pete-walker.com/

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1365 || resistance motivation Feb 17, 2025

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You haven't heard about any major acts of resistance because they don't want you to think it's happening, but just because you can't see the helpers, doesn't meant they're not there. Look for them, and if you can't find any? Become one.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/14/federal-unions-resistance-trump-power/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/us/politics/democrats-trump.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/27/government-workers-trump

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/week-legal-setbacks-one-big-win-trumps-agenda-rcna192032

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1364 || CIA guide to simple sabotage Feb 16, 2025

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“Insist on doing everything through ‘channels.’ Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.”
“Make ‘speeches.’ Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your ‘points’ by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate ‘patriotic’ comments.”
“Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.”
“Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.”
“‘Misunderstand’ orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can.”
“In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first. See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines.”
“To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.”
“Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.”
“Multiply paperwork in plausible ways.”
“Make mistakes in quantities of material when you are copying orders. Confuse similar names. Use wrong addresses.”
“Work slowly. Think out ways to increase the number of movements necessary on your job”
“Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once. Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to do your work, and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions.”
“Snarl up administration in every possible way. Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.”
“Report imaginary spies or danger to the Gestapo or police,”
“Act stupid.”
“Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble,”
“Cry and sob hysterically at every occasion, especially when confronted by government clerks.”

The article I read: https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/

The Field Guide: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184?

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1363 || play: learning what comes naturally Feb 15, 2025

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The 3 elements to a full and productive life are love, work, and play. Self initiated play nourishes our imaginations and our creativity, and they are like a muscle you must build through practice.

David Elkin's writing for Museum of Play: https://www.museumofplay.org/app/uploads/2022/01/1-1-article-elkind-the-power-of-play.pdf

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1362 || a moving rant Feb 14, 2025

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Earlier this week I talked about the lessons I learned from moving, today I want to talk about how full of shit I was.

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1361 || low-stakes creativity Feb 13, 2025

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If you've ever said, "I'm not creative" or "I'm not good at that", I'm here to remind you that creativity is not a personality trait but a skill that you build.

Museum of Play's Journal of Play: https://www.museumofplay.org/journalofplay/

STUDY: Dopamine + Art: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00283/full

STUDY: Reducing Cortisol through Art: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07421656.2016.1166832

STUDY: Creativity as a skill: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1713532115

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1360 || we are stronger than we think Feb 12, 2025

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"There will be more acts of repression, cruelty and abuses of power coming from federal, state and local officials in the weeks and months ahead. There is no formula for deciding how to respond to authoritarian attacks, and being constantly on the defensive is exhausting and demoralizing. Reclaiming agency in defining the terrain of struggle away from repressive control and towards individual and community empowerment is key to building and maintaining momentum, as well as hope." - Maria J Stephan

Maria J Stephan's Article: https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/02/we-are-stronger-than-we-think/

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