so it goes

everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

[beanleaf]

[sustancy]

[makinginfinity]

The Neptune Hotel by Geoffrey Bawa, Sri Lanka 1976

[sseoulful]

[edellweiss]

by mydomaine

[luthienne]

Jennifer S. Cheng, from So We Must Meet Apart

[Text ID: Maybe what I’ve been trying to say all this time, as an explanation and apology, is that I sense a mass of white noise in front of my face wherever I go. It stands between me and the world, between me and other people. More and more I am finding myself lost in it, unable to make it through to the other side.]

[anancientheart]

Be sad but get up. You don’t have to shower. You can put on the same clothes you wore yesterday. Nobody will care. The sky is blue, wildflowers are blooming by the side of the road. Strangers have stories to tell. Go for a walk, go for a drive, go to a greenhouse, a bookstore, a movie theater. You can stay in bed but nothing is going to happen there. Sometimes you’ve really just got to get the fuck up.

[2othcentury]

Dr. Martens ad, 1988

[lifeinpoetry]

I [forgive] myself for loving

those who have harmed me    for cooking them dinner & burning the rice    forgetting to add pepper    or make myself a plate     I [forgive] myself for staying     I [forgive]

myself for staying      until I left my skin

— Brandon Melendez, from “Standing at The Mirror, The Author Writes A Poem for Himself in Which the Word Hate Is Replaced with The Word Forgive,” published in Frontier Poetry

[love]

by Joa Stenning

[thoughtkick]

“I no longer have to set myself on fire to keep other people warm.”

— Sade Andria Zabala, You Make Me Feel Human

[simena]

[lucasregazzi]

[lifeinpoetry]

in the morning i’ll be ten feet tall solid gold not sorry for anything

Nicola Maye Goldberg, from “One for Blair Waldorf,” published in Electric Cereal (via lifeinpoetry)

[oifelle]

2020 Film Journal - This Is Paris

Alexandra Dean | 2020 | USA | Documentary

You should live free, and I’m not talking about free to walk alone without people watching you. I’m talking about free in your mind and in your heart. From things that have happened in your life. One day.

[attainablerecovery]

Because traumatized people often have trouble sensing what is going on in their bodies, they lack a nuanced response to frustration. They either react to stress by becoming “spaced out” or with excessive anger. Whatever their response, they often can’t tell what is upsetting them. This failure to be in touch with their bodies contributes to their well-documented lack of self-protection and high rates of revictimization and also to their remarkable difficulties feeling pleasure, sensuality, and having a sense of meaning.

“The Body Keeps The Score” by Bessel van der Kolk

[defoluegolar]