Finding Joy In The Journey

This is my emotional healing place. See aip-recovery for my physical healing journey :)

[the-memedaddy]

meirl

[suicideisnotanoption4u]

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[selfcarevibes]

You are 100% lovable, even when you are feeling depressed

[dawnsongs]

resist the urge to treat pain with pain

[journeytojoy]

I've been doing fairly well in recovery for a good while now, but then midterms happened. I was so overwhelmed and getting no sleep that I ended up relapsing and I'm basically down to my middle school weight, which was a good decade or so ago, and I've never lost so much before. I don't know how I fell so far so fast and I don't know how to get back

[bodyglitter]

how do people get yelled at without crying i dont understand

[journeytojoy]

Secret- we do cry, just later when there's no one around

[arandomthot]

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.”

— Alan Cohen

[luneloving]

here’s to everyone hitting a low point after doing really well. you’re amazing and so strong and your hard work is not erased. you will find happiness again

[a-hurricane-thundercloud]

To those of you that fear recovery because you’ve become so comfortable with your suffering:

You don’t notice it leave. It goes away slowly and you don’t even notice it’s gone until youre happy and content.

You won’t miss it. It won’t hurt. You won’t be empty. I promise it will be so much better than your head tells you.

[onfirewhenifoundit]

To those who worry you won’t be “you” anymore: You’ll be different, yes, but it’s a process of growing into the best version of yourself. You’ll stumble sometimes simply because some habit you developed to cope is now out of place, but you’ll be so much more able to pick yourself up again. And you will be who you were meant to be, without the distortion caused by illness. Be prepared for some grief for your old life, but don’t let that make you afraid to embrace the new one.

[sorion]

That voice that’s telling you to not get help, not take meds, to keep to yourself or it might change you? That’s a symptom. The depression doesn’t want you to get rid of it, and it’s lying to you to stop you from doing it.

Don’t listen.

[unwelcome-ozian]

[ohbutwebestmakepeacewithit]

you don’t need to punish your body in order to get out difficult feelings

[siickangel]

what’s the cheat code for stable mental health

[perrfectly]

[traumasurvivors]

It’s okay if you thought you were over it but it hits you all over again. 

It’s okay to fall apart even after you thought you had it under control. 

You are not weak. Healing is messy. And there is no timeline for healing. 

[estelles-remade-deactivated2018]

umm i need reassurance that my presence is wanted but i can’t ask for reassurance because that’s really Embarrassing and it wouldn’t feel genuine if i asked for it

[thepowerwithin]

Why is it that you are so quick to devalue yourself? You are such a blessing. A gift to the world. A precious part of life. You must not only realize this, but full heartedly believe it as well.

Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin