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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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"The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them"
— Thomas Merton (No Man Is an Island)
Intimacy is that safe and comforting feeling you get when you can bask in the knowledge that this other person truly understands and appreciates you. You can relax in this person’s presence and let your guard down. Your mutual sense of trust, perhaps reinforced by your commitments of loyalty to each other, allows each of you to be more open with each other than either of you would be elsewhere.
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/28/love-2-0-barbara-fredrickson/
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
You know how it feels, you’ve done it before. The warmth and joyful feeling when you open the heart of someone with selfless acts of love and kindness. It seems to be the best thing you can do for yourself; to turn on the light in people’s hearts, because when they shine from deep within…you are embraced by the Light.
(via seedeeply)
I actually forgot this was on Something-Fishy but here are some photos of my coping bank. I used bright colored sheets of paper folded in half and filled an old aromatherapy stress relief body scrub jar (it still has the scent… BONUS). I put the text from Something-Fishy to make it easier since I’m not great at explaining things… they also give you some examples of things you can put in your coping bank but in the end it’s really up to you… put in anything that helps!! And have fun!!
Text from Something-Fishy
A Coping Bank is the same — we take what we learn about coping alternatives and put them away, in the backs of our minds, for when we needs them. But during recovery that can be difficult, and during times of crisis it’s often hard to think of what we should do.
Make your own Coping Bank and you can go and make a withdrawal when you are feeling stressed, overwhelmed, confused (etc.) and in need of healthy ways to handle it.
How to do it:
1. Use a shoebox, an old piggy bank, a tupperware container, a juice bottle — it should be something you can cut a slit in to make your deposits, but that is easily opened so you can make withdrawals when you have to.
Decorate the item you chose with magic markers, crayons, paper, buttons, ribbon, photos of loved-ones, affirmations, fabric, cartoon characters, anything you like!
Cut a small slit somewhere in the top or side of your item — this is where you will make deposits.
Write a whole bunch of healthy coping alternatives on small sheets of colored paper (like construction paper, stationary, old greeting cards, index cards). Here are some examples…
Write in your Journal
Listen to your favorite music
Write at least 5 affirmations
Color in a coloring book
Play your favorite instrument
Tell one person how you feel
Pop or stomp on bubble-wrap
Have a water balloon fight
Paint a picture
Take a long hot bath
Go berry picking
Take a long drive
Take a leisurely walk
Rent your favorite movie
Take a trip to the toy store
Fingerpaint, Doodle
Build with blocks. Build a tower and knock it down
Build with Legos
Spend time with your pet
more ways to cope…
Come up with your own too!
Take all these little sheets of paper and deposit them into your bank. You can always add more as time goes on, you can make deposits whenever the mood strikes you! You should initially try to get at least ten to fifteen ideas in your bank.
Place you Coping Bank on your dresser, next to your bed, in your china cabinet — someplace easily accessible and where you’ll know where it is.
Make a mental commitment to yourself to go to your Coping Bank when you need to!
Next time you are feeling sad, angry, overwhelmed, confused, or stressed-out, and need to find healthy ways to cope, go to your Coping Bank and make a withdrawal. Pull out one of those sheets of paper and do what it says! (remember to put it back in your bank after you’ve read it, so it’s there for the future).
Remind yourself… “I am taking care of ME!”
“Saudade”, it’s in portuguese.
When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works not only because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for.
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I know the branch is safe, I know it holds you still, but if you cannot take the leap, then fly you never will.
Starlings Leaping From Tree (by TylerKnott)
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.
Kurt Vonnegut (via elige)
You don’t need another human being to make your life complete, but let’s be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn’t see them as disasters in your soul but cracks to put their love into is the most calming thing in this world.
Emery Allen (via licorne-)
The truth is that the more intimately you know someone, the more clearly you’ll see their flaws. That’s just the way it is. This is why marriages fail, why children are abandoned, why friendships don’t last. You might think you love someone until you see the way they act when they’re out of money or under pressure or hungry, for goodness’ sake. Love is something different. Love is choosing to serve someone and be with someone in spite of their filthy heart. Love is patient and kind, love is deliberate. Love is hard. Love is pain and sacrifice, it’s seeing the darkness in another person and defying the impulse to jump ship.
The Great Kamryn (via memonite)
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coup de foudre
thebestfeeling: unicornology: amandoline: wordjournal:
noun • /ku.də.ˈfu.drə/ • 1) a thunderbolt. 2) a sudden overwhelming feeling of love for somebody; love at first sight.
