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Through it all it takes enormous courage & strength to stay true to who you are & want to be. It isn’t the speed but the distance covered 🐢 learning to live 🫶

[blank @_patchworkgirl]

I go at my own pace and I take the path I wanna take 🐢 if that means going arse backwards then so be it. Maybe I have a good time, maybe I learn something, maybe nothing at all.

[🦪 @marygaitspill]

my problem is I think you should still do bad things that ruin your progress or just give you unnecessary pain because im a very plot-driven person. like I think you should wake up at 5am every morning for a month just to see what it feels like to be a person that wakes up at 5am every morning, I think you should restrict meat intake to once a week not for any moral or religious reasons but just to imagine what it would be like to live like that, I think you should meetup at some random hotel with that fifty year old "artist" from craigslist who's looking for a life model to sketch.

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

THIS IS IMPORTANT!!

[gomi @parveen__tyagi]

writing will genuinely change your life more than motivation ever will. not in some cringe “manifest your dream life” way. i mean in a very real, practical way. most people never actually stop long enough to understand what’s going on inside their own head. they just react to life all day. scroll when they feel uncomfortable. distract themselves when things get quiet. jump from one dopamine hit to the next. but writing forces you to slow down for a second and actually look at your thoughts instead of running from them. and the weird part is you usually don’t even realize what you truly think until you start writing it down.

writing doesn’t just record your thoughts it creates them. ideas start flowing that you didn’t even know were there. patterns start showing up. emotions start making sense. problems become easier to solve because they’re no longer this giant fog floating around in your head. writing organizes your mind. every high performer, every sharp thinker, every person who just gets it, they all write. It keeps showing up as the common thread. not the expensive stuff. not the complex stuff. Just pen and paper. they write because feelings are vague but words are precise. every time they sit down and search for the exact word to describe what’s inside them, they become a sharper, more powerful communicator.

“people follow the person who can say what they mean and mean what they say. writing every day is how you build that muscle until it becomes second nature.”

over time, all that accumulated writing becomes a resource you can draw from forever. the more you write, the more material you have to solve problems, connect dots and think bigger.

the better you get at putting thoughts into words, the better you get at communicating in general. and honestly, communication controls a huge part of your life. like relationships, opportunities, business, confidence, influence, all of it comes down to how clearly you can express yourself. and no, you don’t need to be some amazing writer either. your grammar doesn’t need to be perfect. nobody cares. half the benefit comes from simply getting thoughts out of your head and onto paper.

some of the best writing advice i’ve ever heard was:

“write badly. just write.”

because the moment you stop trying to sound smart or perfect, your real thoughts finally start coming out.

even 30 minutes a day changes something in you. you become calmer because your mind isn’t carrying around a thousand unprocessed thoughts anymore. you become more self aware because you start noticing your own habits and emotional patterns. you become more articulate because you’re practicing turning feelings into language every single day.

if you write every day, your future self gets to sit down and read exactly how far you’ve come. i think that’s more valuable than any photo album.

who knows maybe one day all that writing becomes a book, a course, something you give your children. at the very least, it becomes proof that you were here, that you grew, that you tried.

that’s one of the coolest parts about it. writing lets you watch yourself evolve with time.

seriously. start writing. doesn’t matter if it’s in a notebook, your notes app, twitter wherever. just sit, think about your thoughts and write.

just sit down for 30 minutes and let your mind speak for once. and watch yourself becoming unstoppable.

[waliu @idek_tb]

If you are emotionally more sensitive than others, please do yourself a favor and date people who won’t judge you for experiencing emotions to the degree that you do. If your trauma has shaped you to possess great depths then date people who aren’t afraid to reach them.

[blank @_patchworkgirl]

Mostly I just miss my desk and I could do this magical thing called ✨clearing it off✨

[Agita Christie @pagan_hoetry]

Unfortunately Marie-Louise von Franz was very right about this

[ᴅᴏᴏᴍᴇɴɪᴄ @dinosaur_info]

I'm going to burst into tears

[blank @_patchworkgirl]

This house is fine, it’s me that’s the problem. As irritating as the hot water/heating system and pokey master is I’d miss the garden with its birds, bees and butterflies. My life here works, moving is just trying to run from why I’m permanently stressed again. It won’t solve it.

[Julia Kaye, prettiest girl in the world @upandoutcomic]

girlhood is everywhere for those with the eyes to see 🥹💜

[blank @_patchworkgirl]

Saving houses on rightmove again. I know full well now isn’t the right time for that but I’m in that itchy mood where I want my life to drastically change and don’t want to put in the slow unremarkable work that would actually make the difference I’m looking for.

[✰ @slowwlifee]

wishing u a relaxed nervous system xx

[horse dentist @equine__dentist]

can you come over and do this to me

[blank @_patchworkgirl]

I love my children more than anything in the world which is why it hurts to know that one day I will look back on their childhoods as one of the hardest, most traumatic parts of my life. And that, by far, is the thing I resent the most.

[blank @_patchworkgirl]

Rescue dogs really are the best people tho

[✧ 𝓢𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓮 ✧ @upshine3]

Women are lonely, too. But people don’t care because lonely women don’t murder, they go to grad school or get a rescue dog.

[blue @bluewmist]

one of my old psychiatrist's absolute greatest hits: the closer someone is to you, the more you treat them as you treat yourself. it's as though they eventually enter the sphere of your inner world.

we have to stop being cruel to ourselves or we will be cruel to others, in time. i don't make the rules and i don't obey them and my loved ones have paid the price.

[blank @_patchworkgirl]

Be careful what you wish for. I had a whole crisis around whether I’m a good person. Now, I am a good person even when it really does not serve me to be. Being a good person is still being good when no one is judging and your efforts are unrewarded. And it SUCKS. I HATE IT.

[blank @_patchworkgirl]

Nobody believes when I say I can’t do this anymore. They just ask me for more. I haven’t got any more to give but it’ll still be taken.

[blank @_patchworkgirl]

Gut feeling is loud tonight. I’m being lied to.

[blank @_patchworkgirl]

Needed this ✨

[gabitha. @igabitha]

i love tarot and astrology but if you are moderately to severely anxious and prone to rumination, paranoia and catastrophizing you need to exercise DISCIPLINE and FIRM BOUNDARIES around how you interact with these modalities. you can become reliant and it will further your obsessions and insecurities. reassurance becomes an unhealthy crutch for individuals with anxiety and OCD. so be careful girl, love you mwah.