learn to be okay on your own. people can love you, support you and show up for you but you should still know how to pick yourself up, enjoy your own company and keep going when no one is around
one of the greatest things you can build in yourself is the ability to just figure it out. you don’t need to know how. you don’t need the answer yet. you just need that little voice that goes, fuck it. I’ll figure it out. then you do. over and over. eventually you stop being so afraid of what you don’t know.
When I got my new job and wanted to celebrate, my ex told me at dinner “we not finna be doing this every time you decide you want to change jobs..” like oh! I know what you are.
The presence of intimacy.
The hug after a long day, the forehead kisses, cuddles, laughs, conversations.
Intimacy really improves your everyday mental wellbeing.