Wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend. Lover of cheese, Gin and Pimms (not necessarily at the same time). Stage IV metastatic breast cancer
Cunderdin, Western Australia
Joined April 2016
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Nat Beard nee McHugh retweeted
"Never before in human history have so many people relied on so few for their food"
"0.5% of the Australian population provides the food for the other 99.5%"
Think about that for a second.
Matt Cossey at @WAFarmersGrains AGM. #keepfarmersfarming
Nat Beard nee McHugh retweeted
This is Hugo and Huxley. They want you to know that the pillows started it. 14/10 for both
ALT two golden retrievers sit on a white fluffy rug in front of a pink sofa. the pillows on the couch are askew, with several floral ones in odd positions and seemingly hemorrhaging white feathers all over the room. they cover the seats of the sofa, and it’s difficult to tell where the feathers end and the white fluffy rug begins. the redder golden on the right looks very stoic but is suspiciously covered in a faint smattering of feathers from chin to chest. the blonder one on the left is grinning maniacally with teeth bared and a mouthful of feathers in addition to the ones caked onto his fur. the pillows may have started it, but we’re pretty confident he finished it.
Nat Beard nee McHugh retweeted
If we really want to solve the mental health crisis we need to talk about homes with emotionally stable, patient, and consistent fathers.
Nat Beard nee McHugh retweeted
Thank you @joeylynchy for your incredible passion, commitment and leadership @canteenaus - on #BandannaDay and every day! 💚💙
Today is @CanteenAus’ National #BandannaDay, a day to raise funds and awareness to help Canteen support young people living with cancer.
Get around wearing a bandanna and if you make a donation, it will be doubled by Bandanna Day partner Pillow Talk: bandannaday.org.au.
Nat Beard nee McHugh retweeted
It’s pretty easy to just write yes in a box, I thought to myself. @satpaper
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Today is Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day.
The 5-year survival rate for breast cancer in Australia is 91%. But for as many as 1 in 3 patients, the cancer will metastasise at some point.
If you or someone you love is facing a diagnosis, you are not alone ❤️.
Nat Beard nee McHugh retweeted
Over 125 West Australian Elders and Indigenous Leaders have come together in support of the Voice.
On October 14, stand with them and vote YES.
#yes23
Nat Beard nee McHugh retweeted
The best relationships are with people you don’t need to please. People who accept you without judgment. Who remind you of the person you’re becoming, not who you were.
Nat Beard nee McHugh retweeted
Things our constitution recognises:
- the Crown of the United Kingdom
- the House of Lords and Privy Council
- the Royal Navy
- the colonies
- the concept of race
Things it doesn't recognise:
- the 60,000 years before 1788
- any non-English thing that happened after 1788
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For 250 years we haven’t listened to the people that have been here for 65,000. This is our chance to fix that.
#yes23
Nat Beard nee McHugh retweeted
As a psychologist, I’m really trying to bring my voice to this.
Over my career, I’ve seen many people with (natural) complex traumatic stress responses from (unnatural) environments. Yet, they’re not taught to understand their behavior as adaptions. Even worse, their trauma is often invalidated. Or told it’s part of a “normal” childhood. Without awareness that what’s normal in culture is highly dysfunctional and sometimes destructive.
It’s clear we are suffering. It’s time to stop pretending and denying.
Complex trauma is not recognized in the diagnostic manual. It’s so important to give people self understanding and hope. To know that there IS healing.
There’s more to life than diagnosing and telling people they have no agency over their lives.
We have a collective issue we don’t talk about.
We have adults who:
-can’t build healthy relationships
-who please so much, they abandon themselves in the process
-who are filled with anger and repressed rage
-who sabotage their partnerships
-who continue to go into cycles of stress and chaos because it’s all they know
-who feel so depressed and overwhelmed for VALID
-who are so hypervigilant and overstimulated they’re stuck in survival mode
Please educate yourself. Advocate for you, your family, and your community’s health. Use the resources in this video (if you’re called) to start your healing process.
May we break the generational cycle.
PLEASE RETWEET FOR AWARENESS
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We only rate dogs. This is a Coastal Cutie Pie Cockatoo. Their crest is fabulous, but please only send dogs. Thank you... 12/10
ALT a small white maltese sits on some large taupe tile and stares directly at the camera. the pup’s moustache is trimmed neatly into an arc, and his body looks soft and white. a magnificent crest of fur atop his head is styled straight upward in many tall spikes, giving him the appearance of a fancy bird trying to communicate to its flock.
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Whether or not Pell was a child sex abuser himself, he was an enabler and protector of child sex abusers and the architect of an institutional cover-up that was designed to and did silence and retraumatise victims. That is what he did, prince of the church that he was.
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Inflammatory breast cancer is a rare type form of breast cancer often developed from the cells that line the milk ducts of the breast and then spreads beyond. It does not present as a ‘typical’ cancer, but rather as a rash.
breastcancertrials.org.au/wh…
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My respect. My gratitude. My devastation for the outcome of her battle for justice. Sometimes it feels like nothing has changed. But it has and will continue to. Because of women like Brittany.
