Faith Before Fear

Using my voice to share my experiences living with Autism, OCD and mental health issues caused by childhood trauma 💜

[Faith Before Fear @faithbeforefear]

Fear is a fiend masking as our friend.

It is a liar, a manipulator.

An extortioner, a blackmailer.

Fear is a toxin, a slow poison.

It will seem to be on our side for a time, but in the end, its true intention is revealed.

Fear wants to trick us into destroying our own lives.

[Faith Before Fear @faithbeforefear]

Everything seems to suggest that I'm currently experiencing a type of burnout, yet I still don't feel like I can give myself the rest that burnout requires 😕

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

Let them doubt. You just keep playing ✨

[Polar. @polar80a]

i mourn the version of me i never became.

[Faith Before Fear @faithbeforefear]

I've recently come to realise just how mentally unwell I am, both more severely and in more ways than I'd previously thought.

The positive thing is that having this self awareness means I can do something about it.

I'm determined to do everything I can to get better🌻

[purr.in.ink @purrinink]

🐈‍⬛🤍

[Faith Before Fear @faithbeforefear]

@Actually_Di 💜💜

[Faith Before Fear @faithbeforefear]

you raised me in darkness
force fed me your lies
too long have they consumed me
crippled me
no more will I walk the path you laid
it was always yours and never mine
i will detox from your posions
truth will be my antidote
and I will walk anew

[𝔬𝔯𝔭𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔢𝔡𝔰𝔨𝔶 @orphanedsky]

to be brave like the sunrise, to still show up when everything inside me wants to vanish into the dark.

[simplicity🥀 @gentlewords1202]

sometimes
the war within
her thoughts
makes her second guess
so many things

[𝓜𝓮𝓱𝓻𝓲💫 @meh_thinks]

Touch everything with your heart as if it was the last time.

[Faith Before Fear @faithbeforefear]

@Yoda4ever Cute cat antics aside, this is disrespectful to actual people with the disorder. Nothing about OCD is funny, fun or laughable. It's a serious, disabling and life destroying disorder. Please stop minimising it.

[𝕰𝖑𝖊𝖒𝖒𝖎𝖗𝖊 @elemmiressoul]

“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.”

—Seneca

[𝕰𝖑𝖊𝖒𝖒𝖎𝖗𝖊 @elemmiressoul]

"i will not get better out of shame
i will get better out of love.."

[Faith Before Fear @faithbeforefear]

a mother is warm, tender, safe
a mother is loving, encouraging, nurturing

but you chose contrary to these things

hating me from the beginning, you wished me dead

you failed

so I will be my own mother instead

[𝓜𝓮𝓱𝓻𝓲💫 @meh_thinks]

Some silences are heavy because they’re holding conversations that were never spoken.

[Philosophy Of Life @PhilOfLife_]

To win in life, kill your ego.

[Alykhan Asaria @AlykhanAsaria]

Please don’t make the same mistake that I made. Notably, back then I felt the same way that I do now, but to a lesser extent. The lesson? Don’t waste more time by being stuck in the past. Live life to the fullest (possible) in the present moment, however much time has already been lost. There are beautiful moments even in hardship. Cherish and nurture them.

[The Reboot Man @TheRebootPath]

You don’t ruin things because you want to.

You ruin them because deep down, you believe you don’t deserve them.

[𝕰𝖑𝖊𝖒𝖒𝖎𝖗𝖊 @elemmiressoul]

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

―Carl Gustav Jung