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“Childhood trauma trains us to anticipate other people's needs while ignoring our own. As we heal, we rediscover ourselves.”

— Thema Bryant, PhD

Sometimes life is about the little things you can look forward to! It doesn’t have to be big or grand, just something that makes you happy.

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Morgan Harper Nichols’ ‘Let July be July’

You will get farther in one week paying close, nonjudgmental attention to the unmet needs underlying your "bad" behavior than you will in a year of punishing yourself and demanding you become a different person. I'm right shut up.

Healing starts with a step forward....

silent lake

“I lied and said I was busy.

I was busy;

but not in a way most people understand.

I was busy taking deeper breaths.

I was busy silencing irrational thoughts.

I was busy calming a racing heart.

I was busy telling myself I am okay.

Sometimes, this is my busy -

and I will not apologize for it.”

- Brittin Oakman

- Artwork : Sivan.ka

Sorry to break yall's hearts but this is too well written of a post to not include in here.

you mean something to people you've never even spoken to. when i see my elderly neighbor on her balcony i go "oh it's grandma" and i'm so happy to see her every time, when i pass a couple holding hands i think 'what a cute couple that is', when i hear a child laugh on the train it makes me smile and hope that life continues to make them laugh! it is just as likely that you are being showered in appreciation, well wishes and blessings everywhere you go

holding yourself accountable and tearing yourself down are two different things

they’re just straight up beautiful

- 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚣𝚊𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚑 𝚜.

“Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our life.”

— Akshay Dubey

Dandelion creed

@tinybuddha

— Me (ice frog) // is there a right way to feel?

You CANNOT lose a month's progress in an hour. If you fall back or you do something you're not proud of, that does not undo all your hard work.

You've formed habits, you've made changes, and one mistake will not erase that.

Beating yourself up for falling back into old habits won't undo anything. All you can do is continue forward toward your goal.

Remind yourself of everything you did that you were proud of. Remember the progress you made. Acknowledge your power.

Please don't punish yourself for that moment when you lost control. You weren't weak, you aren't a failure, and everything you worked for is not ruined.

I think one of the kindest things you can do for people with various mental health struggles is just... let people back into your life after they've been absent for a while.

Making friends as an adult is so fucking hard already and isolating yourself from other people is a very common symptom of depression, anxiety, burnout, ocd, trauma, grief, etc. Which means that someone will do the hard work of recovery/healing and resurface back into a world where their previous friends have written them off because they stopped showing up.

So if you know someone where you're like "yeah we could have been better friends but they fell off the map a bit" and that person suddenly reaches out, or starts showing up to events even though you kind of forgot they were still in the group chat... well they may have been Going Through It and you don't actually have to punish them for their absence you can just be glad that they're back.

You weren’t abused because you were a “bad child”. You were abused because they were abusive.

They only said those things to try and find some justification for their abuse.