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learn the difference between your intuition guiding you and you’re trauma misleading you

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“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of courage.”

— Brené Brown, Rising Strong

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Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things

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no is always a full, complete sentence. you don’t have to justify your every decision, especially to people who are not at all committed to your well-being and benefit from you having no boundaries.

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To do list - explore my entire being - accept my entire being - respect my entire being - support my entire being - love my entire being

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If you wouldn’t allow someone to talk to your best friend, child, or loved one, in the way that you’re talking to yourself right now... then it’s time to start changing your inner voice. You are so worthy of your own love.

#recovery #self love #domestic abuse survivor #domestic violence survivor #domestic abuse #innervoice #trauma survivor #innergrowth #innerhealing #worthy

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I don’t think a lot of people understand that no matter how progressive or well-read you are, there are always going to be moments in your life where somebody pushes back against something that’s so culturally ingrained you never even considered it before. And you’ll say “Huh, it never occurred to me to challenge this but you’re right,” and that doesn’t mean you were “morally toxic” before, it means you’re a non-omniscient human capable of growth.

Also, some preferred terms for things will change and evolve, and terms we prefer now might eventually be considered gauche or even offensive, and that doesn’t mean you were a bigot at the time for using them. It means we evolved as a society and chose new terminology to reflect that change.

Nobody is a fully formed realisation of progressivism that can predict all shifts and modes of thought. The world will always change, and hopefully you will, too

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Body positive manatees ♥ °˖✧*•  Shop, Patreon, Book, Mailing List *•. ✧˖°`

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surround yourself with people who bring out the best version of you. who lift your spirits, hype you up, give you energy instead of taking it from you. people you desperately want to tell good news to, who will celebrate your successes and push you to new heights. who share your enthusiasm, and motivate you even further. it’ll change your life.

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People always tell you to grow up, but forget that being a child is really important.

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you need to start believing that nothing is too good for you

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list of shit I wish I had done differently while living with abusers:

nothing

everything I’ve done back then was to survive and get myself out of it alive, even when I was making decisions for abuser’s benefit it was still the only way for me to keep living. I’m not going to be ashamed of my past decisions that have kept me alive until this moment no matter how stupid they might have looked to others. No one could have survived differently or better than I did. We all do only thing we can to keep alive when living with predators. We’re not wrong to stay living. We’re not wrong to fight with all we have to keep ourselves from being harmed.

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