[parenthacks-deactivated20220104]

Forgive yourself the next time you find yourself staring blankly into space. You aren’t wasting time. You’re catching up on your stillness.

Dr. Christine Carter in Feeling Starved for Time? Here’s a Surprising – and Easy – Solution. (via parenthacks)

[adventures-in-therapy]

Going back to structured meal times after a lapse like:

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Desktop wallpaper :)

[real-talk-recovery]

A reminder:

You weren’t happier when you were actively engaging with your eating disorder. If you were, you wouldn’t even consider recovery. You didn’t love your body more when you were engaging with your eating disorder. You deprived it of nutrients, of rest, you forced it to do things it didn’t want or need to do, you actively damaged it on a daily basis. You weren’t more confident and comfortable in your own skin while you were engaging with your eating disorder. Every day you were trying to manipulate you intake, body, weight, shape, or behavior in some way. You were perpetually self critical and self destructive. You isolated, you numbed out. You were anxious/depressed/angry/alone. You weren’t in control when you were engaging with your eating disorder. You were being controlled every moment by impulses and obsessions that whittled your life and cognitive scope down to food and weight and calories and exercise. You had given up all control yo your ED. You were not making the choices you wanted to make, doing the things you wanted to do. You weren’t safer when you were engaging with your eating disorder. You were in danger of countless, dangerous health problems, some irreversible, some life threatening. Your ED did not protect you from abuse, negative emotions, or change. The feeling that it did is an illusion that traps you in a dangerous place. It does not strengthen you, it does not protect you.

Don’t go back to your ED. Nostalgia is a lie.

[figtreepremed]

Truth!

[lifeinpoetry]

i think my body is afraid of being a body again. it was nothing for the longest time.

Meggie Royer, from Missed Connection (via lifeinpoetry)

[michellekpoems]

and between feeling the everything or the vast nothing, I am finally choosing the muchness, the too bright, the overly daring. I am finally choosing the living.

Michelle K., Finally (via michellekpoems)

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[mddiaries]

Words to live by.

[carpephuckingdiem]

Amen.

[figtreepremed]

[quick-nip]

(via Saturday Morning Cartoons: Baopu #15) by Yao Xiao

words to remember

[randomstudies]

I really wish my Chem study was as neat as psych was last week.

I find that putting the things I need to learn on my window makes me open my window giving me a more positive study space and by using sticky notes the colours correspond with certain areas (plus they stick better to the window than brick walls).

[amandagenine-deactivated2019062]

I’m tired of people romanticizing overexertion. Exhausted is not the new chic, coffee (though a delicious necessity) is not a food group, and running on fumes is not admirable. Why do we hold pedestals for sleepless nights, breakdowns, and inner turmoil? Are those really things to aspire to? Self-care. Balance. The ability to know when your body, mind, and spirit need to take a step back. Those are things we should admire. We have to stop blurring the line between ‘commitment’ and self-endangerment because too many people are burning out before they have a chance to truly shine.

my opinion on the way we envision hard work and the way we should live life  (via runningmandz)

[quilavastudy]

Time for some anatomy! 📚📖

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[wirestudy]

[studying-queen-blog]

I still believe that if you set your mind on something, and move towards it with persistence and hard work and unwavering determination. Nothing is impossible. It may take some time, but you will ultimately achieve your goal as long as you don’t stop trying to get there. You only really fail if you stop trying.

(via studying-queen)

[unistudydiary]

I feel productive

[ratgoat]