I Do Feel Like This Whole Self Improvement Culture Thing Can Go Too Far Where People Are Never Happy

There's a bunch of adhd advice out there that's like "people with adhd tend to work better under deadlines due to the anxiety so here are ways to artificially induce a stress response in order to get you to get work done" and it's like well what if I don't want to be stressed out all the time in order to function

Your trauma responses once kept you safe. Thank them, then gently let them know their job is done. It's time to grow.

how it feels knowing that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall

if i see a group of men laughing i just know its not funny

Fragrance Of Lost Souls

Watercolor On Black Cotton Paper

2025, 22"x 30"

White Lilacs, Syringa vulgarus var. alba

the brain craves the diet coke, the body despises it, what else is new??

January 1972 // the coast // Oregon

i'm not going to lie. i would do this all the time

— February 1, 1922 | Franz Kafka diaries