(Activity) Inner Weather Check (Exercise) Name your current internal climate using weather language. (Rules) One phrase or term or degree. No explanation. Disregard rules if needed. ———————————————————————— Here’s My Offering (Example): Chilly. Due to cold shoulder fronts, expect an unexpected drop. #FromTheHeartTheMeteorologistSpeaks #MFA’rMeditatorFormulatorActuator

(Activity) Open Expression (Exercise) Create freely in response to the week. Any form. Any length. Any Topic. You Choose. Follow Momentum.  Here’s My Offering (Example): How does one heal from betrayal and disrespect from a person you valued like family, during a time you’re on the mend from days at a hospital? This one? Myself? Keep moving with the well laid plans I’ve had on the calendar for months. And with a change to the quote “one asshole don’t stop no show.” The world keeps spinning on its axis. But at least I know now where I stand. #karmapleasebeswift #fallbackonthehorizon #revelaton Now you Follow The Flow.

Making It Make Sense. “Love yourself.” Okay. BUT HOW?!? How does that advice work when your schedule is full, your patience is running low, and somebody needs another favor? We’ve opened The HOW Lab™, our new practical psychology experience inside Stay Zen | Aftertongue. Our first experiment asks one question: Did I include myself in this decision? Because sometimes we account for everybody involved and realize afterward that we left ourselves out of the calculation. The Complimentary classroom has a short exercise you can try on a real decision. 🔬 Enter The HOW Lab™ in the Complimentary classroom. The full version is located in NeuroVerse. And here’s what we want to know: What’s one piece of mental-health advice people repeat that desperately needs an instruction manual? We’re collecting candidates for future experiments.

Some experiences arrive before vocabulary catches up. Today, we’re going to catch one. THE CHALLENGE Describe an oddly specific human experience in 15 words or fewer. ✍🏾 One rule makes this interesting: ✍🏾 Use zero emotion words. ✍🏾 Give us the circumstance. Show us the behavior. Leave a little evidence behind. Then stop. Someone else in the community gets to name the experience. EXAMPLE Reopening yesterday’s message to inspect whether your punctuation somehow changed overnight. Now somebody has to name that creature. 😏 Maybe: postscriptosis /ˌpōst-skrip-ˈtō-sis/ The compulsive forensic examination of communication after its fate has already left your hands. WHEN YOU FIND SOMEONE ELSE’S EXPERIENCE… Invent the word it deserves. You can: - fuse existing words together - bend spelling until the sound fits - resurrect an obscure word - build from linguistic roots - invent something gloriously illegal Drop the word beneath their comment. Add a definition when the word asks for one. IPA pronunciation earns maximum language-nerd points. 🤓 AND IF SOMEBODY NAILS YOUR WORD… Reply: CLAIMED. That gives the word its tiny origin story right here in Aftertongue. By tonight, we may have a comment section full of experiences English somehow forgot to name. Your 15 words start below. 👇🏾

Miss Lady I Ain’t Missing You At All / Sending Love / On the Low / Trolling the Trolls / Playing With My Food / Take the Risk / Is Annihilation Imminent? / Part of the Propaganda Russ/I just wanna say good morning/Crumble the ground beneath Goliath’s feet/it’s not just the hatred that comes our way, there’s a lot of hope out there/Hatred is dangerous/They filled it in/Y’all act like you got nothing to say/This is serious business here