[dissociative-art]

[cottagecore99-deactivated202505]

Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life.

[itsbeenclaireified]

Me, a millennial: silence my phone for numbers I don’t recognize until I can google the number to see if I should answer

[snack-dealer]

Please remember to take time for yourselves. Remind your significant other that a break is NOT a trip to the grocery store by yourself or taking a shower. Our babies need us at our best. Do what you have to do to heal! Whatever it takes. ❤️

[dissociative-art]

Self-validation

I have been seeing a therapist for about 7 months now to help me heal from my childhood and abuse from my parents. I am still learning to accept the word "abuse" as what I lived through. It still feels like a very faint dream that I concocted myself, until I describe an event from childhood to another person. Usually people tell me "that doesn't sound normal" or they give me a look of concern and sympathy. I don't need sympathy; I just need to learn to move on and stop talking about my parents and how my life was then, because it is impacting my mental health in the now. 

[infpisme]

[healingchildhoodtrauma]

Going from, “I don’t deserve to set boundaries” to “Having a relationship with me is a gift not everyone is entitled to.”

[remanence-of-love]

[dissociative-art]

[jugurtti-deactivated20210925]

is this how you erase me?

[the-courage-to-heal]

Emotional Flashbacks:

They can be likened to free falling through the air with no ground in sight. You have the sensation of danger, hypervigilance, insomnia, night terrors. All the while having to function within your normal life. Know on the days you can just breathe it’s okay. On the days all you can do is make yourself eat something and cry that’s alright too. Focus on the small tasks you accomplished. Not the overarching lofty goals you haven’t reached yet. Slow steady steps will get you to your destination.

[infpisme]

[infpisme]

[lisasimpsonwannabe]

part of being neglected as a child is that you grow up feeling as though no one knows who you are on the inside, and sometimes when have low self-esteem you see yourself through the eyes of your parents and beat yourself down because you couldn’t meet their expectations. when in reality they caused you to split from your experience of reality and your needs and wants because they just didn’t accept you as you were.

[galactic-spec-of-dust]

Why do I still have empathy for you after all you’ve done?

[infpisme]

[infpisme]