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i'm a simple girl: i see sunlight on the water, i find god

#it’s true

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Bonnie’s .38 revolver which was a gift from Clyde. Engraved “To Bonnie, I owe you one. Clyde 2-28-32”.

#hi my name is bonnie

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Christian Dior Spring 2017. Paris Fashion Week.  

#omg?? #this dress!?!? #pls…. my turn

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Artist: Juliusz Lewandowski (1977 - )

#the colours… #the shading… #the gay sex..

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#WHAT THE HELL!? #ambitious crossover

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fig heart / bird bones

#i read this to my boyfriend over the phone #i saved it a long time ago thinking of him #i wanna be his fig-hearted girl #he’s my clover-warm boy

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Special edition Snoopy stickers, in classic Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, etc. paintings.  Love ‘em!

#are you for real rn.. #snoopy #vangogh #monet #renoir #peanuts

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pavlovs dog and schrodinger's cat armed with chekhovs gun and occams razor to take down freud. new hit movie coming april 20th 2069

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#poem #pomegranate #diary #mine #poetry #religious guilt #queer poem

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Albert Camus, The Misunderstanding

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Nietzsche believed that you’ve gotta be able to think about suicide before you can move beyond wanting to kill yourself because only once you’ve accepted it as an option can you make the choice not to do it, and the alternative, to deny the urge and ignore it, would inevitably cause you to cave to the unaddressed desire you have for it.

And the dude was right. 

The rogue’s gallery of psych students and junior practitioners on this hellsite have hijacked my post about not being mean to yourself to explain to people how actually what I’m talking about is cognitive-behavioral therapy, and how it involves disciplining yourself to never talk negatively about yourself and how it’s important to check with a therapist that you’re doing it correctly, and like, this is why I don’t trust and can’t stand these people.

Being your own friend is a holistic process, there aren’t exercises you can do or therapy methods you can apply, which is why most people relapse almost immediately after stopping CBT or DBT, because they haven’t actually made any progress in how they look out for themselves, they were merely thrust into a disciplinary regimen where they are taught to engage in habits which their therapist then holds them accountable to, and so, without that therapist, they fall apart again.

Not being mean to yourself doesn’t mean censoring self-deprecating humor, it doesn’t mean snapping a rubber band on your wrist when you have a negative thought, it means taking time to sit down and think about yourself as if you were another person, to really take stock of who you are from as objective a perspective as you can muster, and if you really want to grow, realizing that this person you see can’t grow if the person closest to them, which is you, spends all their time berating them and making them feel like shit.

Being friends with yourself is not a series of therapeutic exercises, it’s challenging yourself to evaluate why you’re a dick to yourself in a way you aren’t to other people, or maybe you are a dick to other people, and maybe you want to be a dick to yourself, which is goofy as fuck, but if you’re still suffering, maybe ask yourself why the fuck you want to be such a dick, the answers may surprise you.

#read the whole thing ed

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“The dynamic of friendship is almost always underestimated as a constant force in human life […], but no matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.”

— David Whyte, Consolations (via exhaled-spirals)

#sniffle

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Virginia Woolf, The Waves

#virginia woolf

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Comme des Garçons: Poem Denim Jeans (2001) Designed By: Junya Watanabe

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