a b e n d r o t

where heartaches and sunshine coexist

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“If you don’t love yourself you will always be chasing after people who don’t love you either.”

— Mandy Hale

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Glow up tips/ideas

Here’s my little guide how to glow up in your life:

First, get your life together:

Organise and clean your home -Having clean home will make you feel better and lighter and therefore you will be more positive.

Have a life admin day -Write down all the stuff that needs to be done, all the appointments you need to get and everything that needs to be fixed. Then schedule in a day every month or every two weeks when you tick off these thing off your list.

Do your damn laundry

Create routines -They can be long and strict or short and very opened

Fight procrastination in all the ways you can

Take your mediaction and have regular health check ups

Now it’s time for mental health:

Make sure you eat and drink water regularly

Get a therapist if you feel like you need/want one

Practise your hobbies or find new ones

Listen to your favourite music

Meditate

Create a happy atmosphere for yourself -Buy plants and flowers, let your favourite music play in the background, let in as much ligh as you can.

Warm beverages

Be as positive as you can

Try to complain less

Don’t talk shit about people, especially not behind their back -You spread negative energy and hurt yourself in the process.

Say nice things to people, compliment them as much as you can -Being nice to poeple will affect your own mood for the better.

Talk about what you love, not what you hate

Get enough fresh air.

Glow up your mind!:

Read more books -Does not matter the genre

Watch movies and series

Learn new language -Even if it’s just a few words

Watch documents

Talk to people smarter than you

Try learning random fact every day

Find a new hobby

Think of ways to make your life better and help your surrounding -Minimalism? Zero waste? Vegetarian? It depends on you.

Find a new friend

Help people

And lastly the physical glow up:

Find out how much sleep you need and stick to it -Usually 8 hours are the norm

Play around with make up -You will fail and it might look wonky from the beginning. And maybe you won’t even like it. I want you to experiment.

Make sure to go make-up-less sometimes if you wear it often

Drink water -It won’t magically clear your skin completely but it will get better.

Wash your face in the morning and in the evening, but no soap if possible

Use as little skin products as you can -Sometimes less is more.

Lip balm

Eat vegetables every day -Every. single. day. It’s the best thing I have ever done for myself.

Eat oatmeal -It did wonders for my hair.

Stretch regularly

Exercise -Find something you have fun doing and do it as often as possible.

Avoid food with too much grease and sugar -You can have it but try to reduce it.

Prepare your outfit the night before -It gives you time to think about what you’ll wear and it’s nice to have it ready in the morning.

Get clothes you feel good and confident in

Get your dream hair colour! -Get crazy if you want

Learn to be comfortable with your body

Don’t shower every day -I know, I know… but listen… It’s actually much healthier for your skin to shower every other day and wash your hair even less. Plus it saves a lot of water.

Get a perfume -Have a scent

Get enough sun -You don’t have to be tan but getting sun on your skin is very healthy and it’s visible in other ways than tan.

Smile and spread joy

If you’re happy, show it -It’s contagious

Remember that beauty comes from within. That is why I put these tips in that order.

I hope I helped and have a great year!

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“Some of the most poisonous people come disguised as friends and family.”

— Unknown (via meineluft)

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“F-E-A-R has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.”

— Zig Ziglar

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“It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling— that really hollowed-out feeling.”

— J.K. Rowling (via quotefeeling)

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“It wasn’t freedom she wanted. It was belief in something - a prize big enough to run for and to fight for and to keep on reaching toward no matter what.”

— Susan Dennard

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The Raven House Cabins Canada

© The Raven House Cabins 

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sunset announced that today is pass away.

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Watercolor Artist Marija Tiurina

For more: https://artwoonz.com/watercolor-artist-marija-tiurina/

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Glamping

© Kristen Cook

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Mont Saint Michel France

© m. siebert

[teacup13-deactivated20200319]

I apologize to everyone but

myself, as if the ballerinas

in my hands have folded the

sun into an exhale, when I

was young I didn’t know

that I would grow up to

be sad, but I’m not good

at staying in love, I’m good

at missing the loves I’ve

had, yet I’m the result of

living & I’m what happens

to a heart with stars in its

eyes -

they go out

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Castle Neuschwanstein Bavaria Germany

© M. Fikentscher

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[starlitstory]

and so it hurts. so it stings. so you’re clawing at your heart trying to make it stop aching. but tell me which is the lesser of two evils? to feel everything at once? or to feel nothing at all?

— S.Y. // take your pick

[illusionedlyrics]

the kids from yesterday // my chemical romance

in honour of their reunion :)

[teacup13-deactivated20200319]

But If I could find a person who gives me the same comfort that I find in the books that I read when the world comes crashing down, a person who makes me laugh and still makes the world look yellow on the darkest of days who understands that flowers were once seeds and that rain is necessary for strong roots to grow And I deserve the kind of kindness that feels like spring We all do.. (Continue this if you’d like to)

I don’t want perfection. I want intimacy and to love and be loved. I want to touch your scars and to let you touch mine. I want trust and freedom and forgiveness for both of us. And most of all, I want you.