ificannotfly:

randomslasher:

160zm:

spillywolf:

If courage isn’t the absence of fear but doing the right thing regardless of it, maybe confidence isn’t the absence of insecurity but knowing you have real worth despite it

this is beautiful

By this same token, maybe goodness isn’t the absence of bad thoughts or impulses, but the conscious choice to behave according to your moral ideals in spite of them. 

I love this.

recklesspanic:

Trauma takes a toll on a person. No one gets to decide how big or small your trauma was. If it significantly affected you more than someone else, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t that bad. Everyone experiences, processes and reacts to situations differently.

You’re not sensitive, overreacting or dramatic. It takes time to heal. You’ve got this, you’re going to make it.

survivor-positivity:

you are allowed to have needs. you are allowed to have boundaries.

don’t let this world’s obsession with youth rob you of the big and small joys of adulthood. i spent most of my teenage years and early twenties struggling with my mental health. but there’s no timeline for happiness. for many people, getting older and growing up means having more chances to redefine their values, find their path and stability in life. some people go to college in their forties. some people marry in their sixties. some people recover better after their thirties. there’s no timeline for this kind of stuff. your childhood and teenage years won’t be the only chance you have at experiencing freedom and joy.

i know we have an insane amount of resources, positivity, affirmations and whatnot for mental health, but it’s ok if they don’t work for you. it’s ok if you don’t feel positive or confident or hopeful. you don’t have to force yourself into it. there’s a lot of toxic positivity around & it’s understandable if these affirmations or quotes have the opposite effect on you. there’s no easy or wrong road to what’s best for you and the hard truth about any mental health condition is that you didn’t chooseto have it. you can’t magically think or feel your way out of it and it’s ok to just embrace it, feel it and deal with it in the best way you can!!

i know you might not believe this but there are ppl in this world who genuinely love you and will love you!!! with all of their heart!!! and they won’t take pleasure in seeing or making you suffer!!! they’ll want to work with you and grow with you. love and affection and companionship in all of its forms are possible!!! that’s what human beings are best at!!! forming bonds and supporting one another!!!

maybe there is no best version of myself. just me, right now, vulnerable and tired and hopeful, willing to show up regardless of what it looks like.

I miss when I could get reassured :/

Today’s lesson isn’t on how to write, it’s about how to accept the fact that your story will never be viewed as 100% original. To give this lesson, I’m going to tell you about how I almost stopped writing.

When I was a little kid, I loved the idea of characters who could control the elements. I even spent time figuring out what nature’s “true” elements were and one of the first stories that I ever thought up was about a group of girls with magical powers who had to save another planet.

Then this was published: 

For those of you unfamiliar with W.I.T.C.H., it’s a series about girls with magical powers who control the elements and have to save another planet. It was pretty popular in the early 2000’s and they even made a TV show based on the books.

But that all happened well after this story reached its end, so let’s get back to little me, who picked the book up on a whim and was heartbroken by the time she’d finished it. Someone had stolen my idea and got a book about it published. Now I’d never be able to write my story. What was the point? It would just be called a knock off even though I’d had my idea long before W.I.T.C.H. had hit bookshelves across America.

I won’t bore you with the soul searching and sadness experienced by little me. Instead, I’ll just get straight to the point. Straight to the lesson I had to learn to be a good writer: it doesn’t matter if people view your work as original. What matters is whether or not they enjoy it.

Every book you’ll ever read, every show you’ll ever watch, every movie you’ll sit and gasp at will remind someone, somewhere of another story. Any new magical school books or books about young wizards will be likened to Harry Potter for years to come. The new Pixar movie, Inside Out, has already been compared to the 90’s TV show Herman’s Head for having a similar idea about personifying a person’s emotions and let’s not even mention the dozen or more reboots and based-on-a-book films that we’ve seen in the past few years and will see in the not-to-distant future.

There are 7 billion people on the planet. At least one of them has thought up a story that’s similar to the one you’re writing right now. A fact that was true even when the earth’s population was a mere fraction of that number as evidenced by the fact that so many different cultures have fairytales and folklore that are shockingly similar. But you know what? I bet that your story has something that sets it apart from the others. I bet that you have some clever line that will make people laugh or maybe you’ve got a character that people will connect to in a way that they don’t in the other versions. Or maybe your uniqueness comes from the setting, you’re telling Cinderella in steampunk or Star Wars in the old west.

What I’m getting here is that unique is more important than original. Take 5 stories and blend them together and you’ll get something that the world’s never seen before, even though it’s seen all the base ideas 1000 times.

So don’t give up when you see similarities in other stories. Instead, let those things inspire you to make your story even better than it was before so that it shines, not for being the only one of its kind, but for being one of the best.

And, hey, if you really do have an idea that’s 100% original, definitely get that thing published. The world hasn’t had one of those in millennia.

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

https://bookshop.org/a/12010/9780156787338

Good morning queens

thepowerwithin:

“You and your body are not meant to work against one another, but to work together in harmony. You’re both a team. A single unit.”

— Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin

justseveralowls:

These are some of my go-to mantras/affirmations for anxiety, panic attacks, stressful or triggering situations and even daily as a maintenance activity. I hope these provide help or solace to anyone who needs these. Please feel free to use, edit, adapt, or even add to the ones I have listed here.

• As scary as this feeling is, I know I can get through this.
• I am safe
• This is a feeling and that is valid, but I know I am okay
• I may feel out of control, but I still control my actions
• I am more than my anxiety
• The past is over, the present is in my control, the future will be okay.
• I will calm down
• I can calm myself down
• I am capable of solving the problems that come my way.
• I am not doing this on my own
• This feeling is temporary, I will feel better soon.
• My brain is just trying to keep me safe
• This stress will pass
• This trigger will pass
• These feelings will pass
• I will be okay
• This is not the end of the world.
• I have survived, and I will do it again
• This will not be how I feel forever
• I have felt this before and it does end
• I am safe and in control
• I can relax my body
• I will persevere
• I am capable of being calm
• I am allowed to make mistakes
• One mistake will not define me
• One bad day will not define me
• I can and I will push through
• I can do this

All those who are struggling with stress and anxiety right now: Please now that you are stronger than these feelings, you can get through this and you deserve to feel safe and calm. You are not alone, you are deserving and capable of a calmer, happier life. Keep fighting!

R

I hate how OCD makes me questions everything. Myself. My identity. My goals. My thoughts. My emotions. My actions. My memory. Other’s actions. Other’s memory. Life.

I absolutely hate it.

im-glad-you-exist:

Friendly froggy reminders

Credit: Maybell.Eequay on Instagram

recoverr:

maybe there is no best version of myself. just me, right now, vulnerable and tired and hopeful, willing to show up regardless of what it looks like.

being cringe is cool if it makes you happy!!!!!

eee plis hold me close, n uhm uhm rub my back, warm up some milk for me n reassure me that everything will be alright n that nothing will harm me as long as you’re there, tell me u will never ever leave me n that i’m your princess

dun let me go until i fall asleep,, i need sum lov,, > <

friendly reminder that it’s not a bad thing if you switch between hobbies a lot! some people like to stick to a handful of hobbies over years and others like to try out a different hobby every other week. it’s ok!!! hobbies are meant to be fun and you don’t have to feel bad for losing interest or changing your mind regularly!

Text: you can still achieve meaningful goals with a psychotic disorder

You can achieve. It might not be what you originally intended, it certainly hasn’t been for me, but you can still achieve things worth doing and make a meaningful difference in this world even with a psychotic illness.

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