Artists tend to be pretty lopsided people. I don’t think there’s anything balanced about us. We have passions and obsessions and predilections. We overreact to the world. ...I don’t think people who are truly balanced need recourse to artistic expression.
—Mary Ruefle
It’s eerie when you think about how many males are still free simply b/c of Women’s silence. I’m not even talkin about celebrities. I’m talkin about ya grandpa. Ya favorite uncle. Ya father.
you sabotage your happiness every time you disguise your spirit to fit into spaces that require you to dress up your authenticity; you’ve poured too much into your growth to be forced into wearing costumes that you aren’t familiar with just to make people feel more comfortable.
You deserve to be in your own energy and not holding onto
anyone else’s pain. You have permission to let it all go. It’s not yours to carry and never was. Forgive yourself and release it.
we need safe spaces and safe people to CO-regulate with in order to learn emotional regulation for ourselves individually… you can’t teach yourself emotional regulation *by* yourself if it was never taught or modeled to you.