Healing Happens In Circles, Not Lines. You Will Return To Old Places With New Eyes.

on todays episode of ‘I probably shouldn’t care or feel sad about this but I do and I don’t know what to do about that’

stop trying to be palatable, stop trying to be palatable, stop

"Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me."

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin Volume I 1931-1934

you can't just switch off years of unhealthy behaviors, negative thought patterns, and counterproductive emotions. but u can recognize them and be like 'i'm not engaging. this isn't the end of the world. i'm box breathing. i'm not giving those thoughts attention; i'm acknowledging them and letting them go. i'm going to take a break when i can.' don't be hard on yourself if it doesn't work or you do something that feels like you've set yourself back. that doesn't help, either, lol

it’s comforting to know that the universe prefers life over death. they are constantly evolving animals to survive longer, one creatures death will allow for the continuation of another’s life, everything will collapse in on itself some day so that a new life could be created all over again. the universe is addicted to living, so when u make someone’s life easier to live you are literally doing gods work 

Let’s sit here 🍃

things we are leaving in our 20s:

-people-pleasing

-centering men

-self-deprecating humor

-perfectionism

Anne Sexton, from “The Sermon of the Twelve Acknowledgements” in The Complete Poems