k.e. @katherinehenson - Tumblr Blog

It’s been my reminder for years, but especially true lately... Someone’s opinion of you is not a direct correlation to your worth. Your story is not written in their walking away. Your value is not found in their choice. Do not weigh yourself down with the opinions and pain of others. I’m a people pleaser. It’s problematic. I will change anything and everything about myself for approval of another. Even if it’s painful, I would rather feel loved and accepted than be myself. No more. No more. I cannot please everyone. Everyone will not love me. And the only thing I can do is be me. The right people show up. The right people raise me up. The right people see that worth in just who I am. That will always be more valuable then conditional acceptance. Again, your worth is not dependent on another’s view or opinion of you. (at Stefari Café)

jasmine-scented

I need to have a picnic on a lavender field in France during a sunny midsummer afternoon at least once in my life

anancientheart

how i’m feeling lately

crawling out of my own skin. the world just doesn’t feel present or tangible. my days happen, but what really happens? my body is not my own I swear. I cannot stop my hands and arms and legs from wanting to move, but what they want to do I do not know. my veins are racing under my skin and I cannot control what happens underneath. I feel like I am suffocating, but from what I do not know. life is happening all around me, but I don’t remember all of it, any of it. my days are not marked by anything I can hold on to.

I am restless, but it is so much more than that. I am unfocused, but it is so much more than that

I am a million different emotions and movements in a singular moment, and yet none of them feel like they belong to me.

#katherine henson

theliteraryjournals

She wanted to say ‘Don’t leave me,’ but she couldn’t do it, not again. She was so tired of begging people to love her.

Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale (via wordsnquotes)

wnq-writers

I was born, shaped, molded, broken, repaired by life experiences.

christiancurrypoetry, writing prompt #65: write a ten-word-story (via wnq-writers)

My (our) thoughts are detrimental. “By our thinking and choosing, we are redesigning the landscape of our brain.” FRIENDS - our thoughts quite literally shape our brain - good and bad. “Research shows that 75 to 98 percent of mental, physical, and behavioral illness comes from one’s thought life.” *raises both hands with* “DNA actually changes shape according to our thoughts. As you think those negative thoughts about the future - the week ahead, what a person might say or do, even in the absence of the concrete stimulus - that toxins thinking will change your brain wiring in a negative direction and throw your mind and body into stress.” WOAH. How are your thoughts affecting your mental health? When I’m asked that same question, my only response is this: chaos forms chaos. The chaos of the thoughts I ALLOW to form, bring more chaos in how I live my life. Chaos forms chaos. Get your thoughts straight. Because guess what?? “The positive attitude, the food choice, rewired everything back to the original healthy positive state.” We can be healthy again. We can renew our minds. We can take back control. Your mental health matters. Self care matters. Take the time to rewrite. Switch On Your Brain, @drcarolineleaf

onlinecounsellingcollege

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

Thich Nhat Hanh (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

through-it-all-it-is-well

We need to stop making what people did to us bigger than what Jesus did for us.

Christine Caine (via through-it-all-it-is-well)

twloha

I don’t think the lack of feeling ‘fixed’ after attending therapy should cause me to consider myself as weak or forever broken. Therapy isn’t about that, it doesn’t leave you feeling brand new. It gives you the tools to better understand yourself, to call your struggles out by name and take away their power. Before therapy, I tried to avoid anything that would cause me turmoil. But now I know that I can survive it. I am strong, and asking for help doesn’t change that, it emboldens me.

Courtney Bunting, “The Reality of Therapy” (via twloha)

perrfectly

You ruin your life by desensitizing yourself. We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us. Caring is not synonymous with crazy. Expressing to someone how special they are to you will make you vulnerable. There is no denying that. However, that is nothing to be ashamed of. There is something breathtakingly beautiful in the moments of smaller magic that occur when you strip down and are honest with those who are important to you. Let that girl know that she inspires you. Tell your mother you love her in front of your friends. Express, express, express. Open yourself up, do not harden yourself to the world, and be bold in who, and how you love. There is courage in that.

Bianca Sparacino (via perrfectly)