Lizzie Bowden

Marketing, writing, eating, interioring, reading, sleeping, smiling.

[anna melissa 🏀✨ @annamelissa]

i can’t believe y’all thirsted over that mediocre mayo man on tiktok so much that y’all got him a netflix special where his first joke was about how if a woman could cook, she wouldn’t have a black eye

[Taylor Swift @taylorswift13]

✨🫶 My name is Taylor and I was born in 1989 🫶✨

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[Lizzie Bowden @Lizziet124]

@laurenbutland Oh my goodness! I’ve been ill since September! I’m up to five bugs back to back 😂 this is savage! Sending healing vibes my girl

[Lizzie Bowden @Lizziet124]

I’m already at the stage of having a child where pieces and bits of toys are being misplaced/ lost and my OCD is taking a real bashing over it 😵‍💫

[Lizzie Bowden @Lizziet124]

@LettersOfNote @laurenbutland 😂

[Lizzie Bowden @Lizziet124]

You’re still here to me, Nana💕

[ari @AriannaDantone]

girl math is taking an entire shower just to wash your face because it’s easier

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Friends give friends space. Some of us are emotionally exhausted. We’re taking time to self isolate and recharge. It’s not personal. Authentic friends welcome you back when the time comes.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

THIS IS GOING VIRAL SO I WANTED TO SHARE IT HERE TOO:

A bit from my past:

My first job after getting my PhD was working as a therapist for people from low socioeconomic backgrounds.

Almost all of them were diagnosed with depression, GAD, bipolar, or BPD. Most were highly medicated— some to a point that still sticks with me years later.

As I got to know their background and lives 3 things were very clear:

1. A vast majority had been emotionally neglected, emotionally abused, or physically abused as children.

2. A vast majority had experienced domestic violence or were currently living in it.

3. Basic needs were never met. Life was an hour by hour struggle. Treatment was an attempt to allow them to get to work in most cases. To just continue to surviving.

It was the start of me questioning the field I had been trained in. One that diagnoses people with disorders without taking a look at the whole picture. It began my path of holistic understanding.

A person cannot be well when one unexpected bill will have them fall behind on rent. When they lay their head on a pillow and all they can think about is expenses piling up. When a bill at the grocery store is almost double what they paid last year when their income has stayed the same.

An entire family unit deeply struggles within survival mode. When a job is lost. When daycare needs to be paid, but so does the light bill— what do you choose? When parents can’t even think about the emotional needs of their children because they have to figure out where their next meal is going to come from.

In 1942, 10 years before the diagnostic manual of mental illness was released Maslow knew what was once just common sense: we have a hierarchy of needs.

At the bottom are basic needs food and shelter. Then safety (resources, security). Then belonging (connection, friendship, intimacy.) Without three things we *will* be sick, period.

I get pushback for questioning the status quo. And I’ll continue to do it. The status quo is keeping people sick. It denies their experience. And it says we should bandage people’s symptoms so they can return to the environment that made them sick.

May we wake up, heal ourselves, and build conscious communities to help each other.

Retweet if you feel this is true in your body 🙏

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

People pleasers were raised to believe that they have to emotionally monitor everyone around them. They struggle most with letting someone feel bad or have a negative emotion. They believe their role is to make everyone feel good and be happy.

[Lizzie Bowden @Lizziet124]

As fast as I buy a new pair of REPLACEMENT shoes my dog eats them. Literally going to be barefoot 24/7 soon. Every single pair.

[Lizzie Bowden @Lizziet124]

Things I’ve learnt as a first time mum: Baby can have all the toys in the world and will prefer baby wipe packet/ nappy / sunglasses to play with.

[Lizzie Bowden @Lizziet124]

@lauraejayne Don’t work too hard, gorge! 💕

[Lizzie Bowden @Lizziet124]

@SnapfishUK I have had two sets of photos printed - both are shockingly bad. I’ve tried to speak to your customer service team countless times and your live chat is awful. I’m not one to complain but I cannot be arsed to use your site again.

[Lizzie Bowden @Lizziet124]

Having a baby is the best thing that has ever happened to me,but my brain has fallen out of my arse 😂

[Donna Ashworth @Donna_ashworth]

I like to think that the dogs of rainbow bridge, will be lining up to greet the wonderful Paul O’Grady today. Waiting to welcome a beautiful man who did so much good for their kind. I like to think he will be rolling around with dogs he lost, dogs he saved and dogs who simply heard of his kindness. Covered in fluff, smothered in kisses and loved, loved loved.

Thank you for making us laugh till we cried and for making a true difference this side.
You will be missed, never forgotten and always loved.

Rest in peace wonderful man.

#paulogrady #rainbowbridge #RipPaulOgrady