Date night! Make healthy choices! ♡

Tips and more are welcome!!

Shout out to the people who are on a road to a better self!

stayprettyandsmile:

Do it for yourself

Words to live by

introvert-unicorn:

• Holding hands.
• Resting their heads over my shoulder.
• Lying on their lap or chest.
• Kisses on the forehead.
• Playing with my hair.
• When they give me that look of admiration.
• Them making me laugh.
• Giving compliments.
• Putting their arms around me.
• Making me feel heard and seen without even trying.
• Random hugs when words aren’t needed.
• When they remember the things I am passionate about.
• Buying me food.
• Them checking on me constantly.
• When they respect my boundaries.
• When they talk to me about things that reminds them of me.
• When they speak their truth.
• When they say they love me.
• When they lift me up, support me and make me feel valuable and capable when I least believe in it.

anxious-and-in-pain:

Some chronic illness hacks from my worst times:

- take your pills with something. I know it’s good bragging that you can take pills dry but it really sucks to get esophagus problems from that. If you have trouble washing them down or psyching yourself up to swallow, try it with food! Oatmeal, prunes, or banana were my favorites

- take it ten steps at a time. Literally. If you don’t know how you’ll manage to get through an hour meeting or a long distance, count your steps or breaths. Focus on the pattern, walk to syllables to your favorite poem or song, count in French, whatever gets you through that small chunk of time. Then do it again

- have a distraction. Your brain can’t face your symptoms all the time. Watch or listen to something for everything

- sit down. Sitting usually hurts less than standing for me. Sit while brushing teeth, showering, sorting laundry

- switch your media. You will build negative associations to a song you listen to when you are in pain. Some take longer than others. I constantly cycle through music and keep a playlist of music that seems immune to the associations

- take breaks. Pace yourself. There’s no shame if you need to take four days to cut your nails or read one paragraph at a time

- plan for rest days. I usually have a day before and after a task set to just prepare and recover

Please add your wisdom!

funnytwittertweets:

sharkpositive:

The truth is, sometimes you willhurt people. Sometimes, you will hurt people, and then life will move on, and you won’t have any way to apologize, or make up for it. But, your past mistakes do not define who you arenow.You are allowed to move on without guilt haunting you over things you might have done years ago. You are allowed to come to terms with the things you did that were wrong, to change, and to grow from those experiences; you will never be stuck in one spot if you will yourself to own up to it, pull yourself up, and start again.

softepilogue:

right now you might be in a situation that you think you won’t survive but six months ago you were in a situation that you didn’t think you’d survive and two years before that you were in a situation you didn’t think you’d survive and the point is you will always surprise yourself and you will always make it through

this-girl-can:

howilearnedtocope:

• We have very little control over how our bodies look
  
• How much you weigh is honestly pretty boring, and the world is full of so many more interesting things to think about 
• If you do gain weight, so what?
• You have no obligation to be attractive
• Physical health can be extremely complex & difficult to manage, and whether or not you can is not a measure of your worth.
• Mental health is important too. 
• You are worth so much more than the way you look.

Think about this and then give your mind and energies to more worthy ideas..

happyheidi:

oh to live in a secluded little cottage with a pretty garden somewhere in the countryside

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satans-classics:

punkenglishnerd:

Unpopular opinion: Being intelligent isn’t an excuse for being unkind.

Pretentious asshole is OUT! Pretentious Sweetheart is IN! Wearing dapper clothes and holding the door open for others makes you feel COOL AS H*CK! Glance up from your hefty books to give a stranger a smile!! Quote literature to inspire others! Be presumptuous in the way that you presume that everyone needs their day to be a little brighter!!!

howtobeapersonwithfibro:

friendly reminder that being disabled is a full-time job. don’t let anyone make you feel bad for not working when you are physically incapable. you work harder than anyone else just to keep up with your day-to-day life.

sleepydryad-blog:

“When you start to notice the mystical, the mystical will start to notice you.”

— Dacha Avelin
(viawolfofantimonyoccultism)