Please don’t let your big, beautiful heart cloud your vision. Remember: Not everybody has the same heart as you. Not everybody has the same pure intentions as you. To be in integrity with a big heart, means that we also must have boundaries.
Self respect is a core part of trauma healing.
This means: honoring your own word, making and keeping small promises to yourself, and quickly removing yourself from unsafe or toxic people.
Photographer Martin Le-May was walking through a London park with his wife in 2015, hoping to show her a green woodpecker for the first time, when he snapped this incredible photo: a weasel riding a flying woodpecker, but not in the sense you may think: https://t.co/0PD04PWwVx