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Just a semi-regular reminder that you do not have to wait until it is "that bad" in order to start pursuing recovery. You don't have to let it get worse in order to count. If it's happening to you, it counts. You matter and you don't have to put yourself through more suffering and a longer, more arduous recovery process (and more lasting damage!) in order to prove that it was bad enough. If you want to get better now, you do not have to get anybody's permission to do it. Healing can start anytime, anywhere, and you do not have to endure any worse in order to deserve better.

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It's not rest if you are spending it feeling guilty for not being productive. It's not rest if the whole time you feel ashamed for not doing chores. This is how you burn yourself out. You're allowed to relax and do nothing.

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you are allowed to mourn things even when things are better now. you are allowed to be sad that it happened. you are allowed to wish things went differently. you are allowed to feel it and not linger. it’s okay to look back sometimes.

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I need people to understand…that if you believe in paying people a livable hourly wage…most hand-knitted clothing should cost hundreds of dollars

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Babe, if something sad happens, I’m letting know you it’s okay to feel it. You don’t have to let it roll off you and keep on trucking. You don’t have to plaster a smile on your face and look on the bright side. You don’t have to stop the tears and put on a ‘brave face.’ Do the truly brave thing instead— let yourself feel the sadness, let the tears fall and acknowledge the hurt. I know it’s uncomfortable, but suppressing or avoiding is a bandaid. Eventually, that bandaid is going to come off. You’re human and you’re meant to feel.

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Instead of shaming myself into productivity and discpline, I‘ve decided to love myself into it. The reasoning for me doing things will from now on always be: „I love myself and I deserve to reap the rewards of this action (and I love myself too much to deal with the disappointment that comes with not keeping my own promises.)

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“Life goes on whether you choose to move on and take a chance in the unknown or stay behind, locked in the past, thinking of what could’ve been. I don’t want to live in the past anymore. I’m so lonely here, there’s nothing for me here anymore.”

— Stephanie Smith

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do it with love in your heart and good intentions in your mind

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It’s okay to fall apart. It’s okay to want to give up. It’s okay to feel like you are back at square one. 

Healing is a messy process and it does not operate in a linear fashion. 

Please keep trying. You’ll get there.

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It’s okay to grieve during your healing. Actually, it’s normal. It’s okay to grieve for any number of things including what you wish had happened or even the parts of you that you felt you lost or changed.

Healing is a process. And it isn’t a linear one. And you’re going to get there. But remember it’s okay to feel whatever it is you need to feel.

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Take that pencil and draw, even if you haven’t done it for years. Pick up that guitar and strum it, even if you never took a single class. Click that camera button and take a picture, even if you don’t know anything about temperature or saturation. You should do what you feel drawn to even if you think that you aren’t “skilled”. You should do it because you genuinely enjoy it, which is more than enough.

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You are good enough as you are.

You were always good enough.

No one gets to tell you your worth.

It isn’t measured by you weight, your body, your ethnicity, your beliefs, your gender, your social status.

It is measured by the fact that you are human.

You are worthy because you are here. And that is enough.

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idk what introvert needs to hear this but please check yourself when ur saying stuf like “staying in your room all weekend by yourself watching netflix is much better than going out and being social” because speaking from experience it’s very easy to confuse being introverted and isolating yourself to cope with anxiety and depression please reach out to your friends and make an effort to live your life and say yes to things, there’s no harm in enjoying your own company but please try to avoid shutting yourself away because you’ve convinced yourself that you’re better alone it’s seriously a recipe for loneliness and will really fuck with your self worth

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