Massage is as much about "fascia" -- the connective tissue that wraps muscles and organs, anchoring them in place -- as it is about the muscles itself.
Fascia is thixotropic, which means that it becomes less tough and more fluid under mechanical stress. (It also gets more fluid when warmer, like most things.) Normally, the movements of your muscles provide enough movement and heat to keep them loose. When you don't get enough movement, the fascia around them becomes thick and tough, less permeable. The metabolic waste produced by your muscles builds up in the fascia around them.
A good massage uses heat, pressure, and motion to loosen the fascia, allowing your body to clear the metabolic waste. That's good in the long term, but in the immediate term it means possibly *years* of waste buildup has just been dumped into your bloodstream. Some of this waste is the stuff your body checks for measure how fatigued your muscles are, some is just toxic in large quantities.
All of this gets filtered out of your blood by your kidneys for excretion, which means also taking water out of your blood. So you need to replace the water, and if you don't, your kidneys will slow down / stop filtering toxins out to avoid drying out your blood.
So drink a *lot* of water.
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Incidentally, also in things I just realized, I forgot to buy baking powder while I was at the store yesterday. This isn't important, but I still thought I'd mention it.
Seriously, I thought stuff like Cheetos or chocolate chip cookies were gonna be the hard part, figuring out that they contain animal products and all. I didn't expect myself to be so dense as to forget that eggs and butter are absolutely not vegan. Like, since I've got 'em, I'm gonna use 'em, but, like...for fuck's sake, me. How do you do something like that?!
So, based on some Satanist principles of mine, I've been trying to go vegan. You wanna know how *that's* gone?
While at the store yesterday, I bought almond milk...alongside *eggs* and *butter*. And I do mean butter. Not margarine. Not vegetable oil spread. Butter, made with cow's milk and everything.
It only *just* occurred to me that that was something that happened.
I thought this would be hard from products I didn't realize weren't vegan, and yet even obviously non-vegan stuff is hard wtf
in all seriousness one of the most obnoxious things about mental health is the chicken-egg problem of feeling too bad to do things that will make you feel better
Inspired by my time at the park today, I present a story about a demon, a powerful relic, and one small child:
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plural (~)
We may need to set up a system of secondary fronting, as all the headmates who aren't fronting tend to exist in the same physical space as our physical body. We may need to find some way to allow only one permanent to exist in the physical space, while the other(s) exist in some new headspace.
plural (~)
And, of course, I put quotes around permanent as, clearly, they aren't, well, permanent. But they're the headmates that stick around in my day to day life, rather than coming and going within a few days.
plural (~)
So, we're pretty sure we're plural and we think we've figured out how our system works. I won't go into details, but I will say it only really works with only one "permanent" headmate and any number of transient headmates. This is problematic as one of my previous permanents (Jade) is trying to return, but my current permanent (Miles) is showing no signs of leaving. We may need to spend some time sorting this mess of a system out.
Phlebotomist. Cyberwitch. Artist. Fighter. Accidental breaker of computers.
Genderfluid enby. Pansexual/-romantic. Kitsune-kin (9-tailed)/Incubus-kin. Plural, with a bunch of headmates.
DAMNED PROUD ANTIFASCIST and an anarchocommunist.
Be warned: In theory, I post both lewd/NSFW and incredibly personal stuff.
(In practice, it's been a while, but who knows?)