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Be the person that cares for others, and if they don’t know what they need, then just be there! ❤️

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Was feeling kinda down and lonely the past few days, getting upset and having a lot of intrusive thoughts (everyone hates you, you have no friends, no one cares about you bla bla bla).

Then I realised I hadnt left my house in about a week but I had some plants that needed repotting so Ive spent the past few hours outside in the garden (fighting the wind because holy heck is it windy today) repotting the plants and checking on the flowers and letting my hands get covered in earth and quite literally touching grass...

...and i feel SO much better.

I know its super annoying but its very correct. Going outside and doing things for your stupid mental health is a necessity and you should do it. So this is your reminder to step outside into the fresh air and ideally get your hands dirty in the ground. Literally touch some grass or other plant life. Its Spring after all (in the northern hemisphere anyway) and its time we said hello to the flowers. If you're in the southern hemisphere go step on some crinkly leaves. That always makes me happy too.

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While I like to talk about the benefits of therapy, it’s also important for people to recognize when therapy is harming them. It may be because the specific therapy is wrong for them, the therapist is wrong for them or they aren’t in the place for it, or any number of reasons.

Therapy can be a wonderful tool, but finding the right type of therapy and right therapist and navigating it all can be so complicated.

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One of my favourite WWI anecdotes was one British soldier recalling the start of the war when the first trenches had only just been dug—back when barbed wire wasn’t laid and steel helmets hadn’t even been issued yet—and said he and his comrades watched the Royal Engineers pull up unannounced with a reel of barbed wire and proceed to lay what looked to be a “clothesline” in front of the trench so tall a “giraffe could walk under it” and I could not stop laughing imagining the RE just standing back after proudly laying their Single Line of barbed wire to defend against the Entire German army like

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WHO NEEDS MIDDLE BITS WHEN YOU CAN HAVE ✨ 𝒔 𝒄 𝒆 𝒏 𝒆 𝒔 ✨

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i believe you can always get back to yourself. you can always soften into being again. no matter how long you might be stuck in a pattern of unhappiness, of being jaded, of feeling guarded from the world in some way. there is always a path back. give yourself a chance to find it.

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This machine kills AI

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𝖠𝗊𝗎𝖺𝗋𝗂𝗎𝗌 𝖼𝖺𝗇𝖽𝗅𝖾𝗌𝗍𝗂𝖼𝗄 𝖻𝗒 𝗅𝗂𝗏𝖺𝗇𝖽𝖽𝗈𝗆

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“Welts, scars, cuts, tattoos, perforations, incisions, inlays, function quite literally to increase the surface space of the body, creating out of what may have been formless flesh a series of zones, locations, ridges, hollows, contours : places of special significance and libidinal intensity.”

— Elizabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies

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You have to stop ruining things for yourself preemptively because you believe they’ll fail anyway. Give yourself a chance to succeed.

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I’ve stumbled across an online community of women (mostly) who alter those Precious Moments figures

And I’m obsessed

I love everything about it

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i cannot emphasise enough how much you need to create something. anything. it doesn't matter if you suck. you don't need to monetise it, or make it your career. you can restart an old hobby; you can start from scratch. it doesn't matter. you just need to hold something and be able to say "i did that". baking, drawing, painting, writing, coding, crafts, whatever. make something ! you cannot have all your hobbies be a form of consumption. it's fun, it's great in its own right. but the single best action to make yourself feel better, to calm your mind, to gain self esteem, is to Create

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David Shrigley, This huge cat (2022)

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