Your relationship with yourself cannot be built entirely around improvement. At some point, you have to become someone you are allowed to enjoy being. You get to be proud of who you are. Present tense.
Months into my grieving journey, I came to the realization that this had been other people’s reality too, long before it was mine. All those days I was living richly and happily, someone’s world had ended, that day was just my turn.
Pastor preached on Jezebel and Ahab and talked about how Jezebel couldn’t make Ahab do shit he didn’t wanna do and can’t no woman pull a man to do anything that he hadn’t already decided to do and the church house got REAL QUIET ON THE CREEK
Stop trying to save people from the consequences of their actions. You enable their patterns. You take away the lesson they need to experience to grow and evolve. You train them to rely on you. You drain yourself by carrying their burden. You're not the "fixer" of their lives.
a man makes time for what he wants, he spoils who he wants, and no matter how dumb he pretends to be, he is aware of what you need romantically. the truth is, a man will give you as much or as little as he feels. so, why are you accepting the short end of the stick
The real flex is not taking things personally and not giving others the remote control to your inner state. Let them blame. Let them play the victim. Let them make you the villain. Let them have their story. You have your mission. A lion never loses sleep over sheep's gossip.
my mom once told me “accountability will always feel like an attack when you are not ready to acknowledge how your behavior harms others” and that shit is real.
Did y’all read the comic section of the paper when you were little? I tried to talk to someone about this popular comic and he was like “Who tf read the paper as a child???” I thought the comic section was for kids and all of us read it???
Stop gaslighting your own nervous system. You're not too sensitive. You're not overreacting. If something feels off, it's because it is. You're responding normally to something unhealthy. Your body is the first to know. Trust your body. It reads the signals you've been ignoring.
as the floater friend i was always the one being confided in so i would know as i seen this in every friend group. don’t even try to gaslight me like this isn’t a common occurrence. having friends doesn’t mean you’re a good person lmao at all