Jeanne, I agree.  When I heard about MM's accident, I immediately felt that it wasn't a coincidence.  I strongly sensed he's feeling the stress of what's happening around him, lost his bearings and fell.  I really liked your description "struggling from the surge of opposition."   He's been so drunk on his own power, that he's considered himself invincible.  Has he ever been challenged in this way?  I don't think so, but maybe @yogagirl can shed some light on it.

It's all fun and games until the pitchforks finally come out for you. Things don't change, until they do.  Then it's hard to remember how we ever lived a particular way. Texas is about the flip (if not in 2020 then very soon).  Their gerrymandered map is turning on them. Hoisted by their own petards. And once that happens it's hard to imagine how the GOP can win.

There's change in the wind folks!

About 1/2 hour ago while I was making dinner, I experienced how it would feel when T. is out of the WH.  It came out of the blue.  Very strange ... I felt like it had already happened.  For a split second I believed that it had -- I even said to myself "thank God."  The feeling of relief was accompanied by an exhale -- the way you'd feel after being told that your cancer was gone.  I smiled, even though I felt exhausted.  You know that your body is weak and your immunity has been compromised, but you're going to be okay.  You're so thankful that you've come through it.  More importantly, you're going to take the time to take care of your body -- be very mindful of how you eat, what you think, your emotions.  You recognize the life lesson.  You'll no longer take anything for granted.

Even though he's still occupying the WH, I still have that "future" feeling.   It feels like the ground is shifting.  

I pray that bright future you're feeling is already cresting around the corner as we speak, @deetoo. And this:

May Tsar Trump be the first and last of his kind this country ever has to see. 

@vestralux, I believe so.  These sensations tend to happen for me when I'm busy doing something else.  I had such a feeling a few months before I met my husband.    

In this situation, it was different -- it felt like the body sensations of our entire country.  Very strange, but good.  It also felt fragile ... a "picking-up-the-pieces" feeling.  Like we hand to handle this with care.  

For over a year now, I have had the feeling that the Democratic Candidates should not run their campaign on the fact that Trump will end up being the candidate they will be facing in the General Election.  That feeling has not changed.  During each debate I watch and each candidate interview I see, my inner voice says, these candidates are "running" against Trump, but Trump is not really going to be the person they need to focus upon.   

@rowsella

This is so lovely! I’m glad your son is excited about the topic of trauma; I’m reading more about it, how even the most “minute” bullying can affect our brains; and yes, it’s passed down. 

Tell you son to look for the book “The Body Keeps The Score.” Excellent resource on the effects of trauma. 

Greetings from Ky.  @Deetoo MM was challenged in the last election by Allison Grimes who is now our Secretary of State.  She ran a good campaign and was neck in neck with him in the polls UNTIL the Koch's dumped a couple of million onMM and he went full bore hatemonger on her.  Even at that she only lost by a slim margin.  I agree wiht Jeanne he is feeling unstable.  Don't forget he is an eighty year old man who doesn't want to quit and doesn't know what else to do.  He has more money than God, especially now from the Russians, but what does he do with it.  The only time I've heard anything about his daughters is when they opposed him on the Kavanaugh appoinment.  Someone said at the time his son-in-law won't speak to him.  He is a very cold man.  A friend of mine used to travel through DC for her job regularly and on FRiday afternoons when he was in the airport he was huddled in a corner with his aids and was totally unaccessable to the public.  That is how he always is.  He has no personality at all and by all accounts is mean as a snake.  The only ones who defend him are the very rich in Kentucky who benefit from his dishonesty and those who just don't know any better.

After the rally this weekend his campaign released a photo of a lawn with tombstones on it.  The names on the stones were Amy McGraph, Allison Grimes, Judge Merrick and socialism.  They were posed right in front of Kentucky Farm Bureau insurance banner.  There is also a photo of seven young white men in "Team Mitch" teeshirts groping a cardboard cutout of AOC that is quite disgusting.  MM is taking a beating on this and so is Ky Farm Bureau.  This is the kind of scum MM is known for.  He wasn't in favor of Moron when he was elected but once he was introduced to the money from Moscow he is full in.  '

I still think he tripped over a bag of money!

@rowsella, what you've posted is so insightful.  Self care is really important.  What you're doing for yourself made me smile.  How are you feeling overall physically and emotionally, since you've made some of these choices?

I'm so glad that you brought up the issue of trauma.  I believe we're all experiencing a collective trauma, in addition to any survivors of abuse who are being retraumatized by his presidency.   I'm grateful that there's so much more information available now on trauma.  They've found that talk therapy, while helpful, has its limits in that area.   They're now using more body-centered therapies, such as EMDR,  somatic experiencing, and sensorimotor (the latter of which was very helpful to me in my own therapy).  All of it is geared towards healing the brain and nervous system.  @pacosurfer -- I agree, The Body Keeps the Score is a wonderful book.