[ojalla]

Anemone Armchair by Giancarlo

[distantvoices]

Shanina Shaik by Paul Morel for InStyle Germany July 2022

[rorronoa]

[raveneuse]

Tsuneo Enari, taken from his exhibition, “Japan and its Forgotten War”.

[twinkdrama]

the feminine urge to release a gut wrenching scream from the depths of your soul

[unreadable]

[a-state-of-bliss]

Naomi Campbell by Anton Corbijn (1994)

[fagunt]

Phelan spring 2016

[babeimgonnaleaveu]

Jimi Hendrix photographed by Ron Raffaelli in Hawaii, 1968.

[duskissed]

[lostincitylight]

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

tw: sexual assault

to the survivors who worry they overreacted, to the ones who brushed it off because they were in a relationship with their abuser, to the ones who never told a soul, to the ones who blamed themselves, to the ones who still won’t walk alone at night, to the ones who still have to hug their abuser at family gatherings, to the ones who still do a double take in public and feel their pulse shoot up, to the ones who are healing, to the ones who are scared they never will heal:

you are not alone. it was not your fault. your trauma is valid and real. you deserved and deserve so much better. i hope you’re doing okay and if you’re not, i hope it gets easier soon. i know it feels impossible but i also know it can.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

you’re doing a good job. even if no one notices, you’re doing a damn good job.

[heavensghost]

Patrick Ness

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

having an old memory resurface or a trigger come up out of the blue sometimes doesn’t mean you’re not moving forward and moving on. it’s just a part of the process, and it likely won’t ever fully go away because it’s a part of you and your past. but you are still growing and healing.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

you deserve so much good in this life. i know that’s hard to remember, to accept. it’s a much easier thing to argue when you know your flaws and your mistakes. but i just want to try to give you even a little reassurance that you do deserve a healthy, happy life. you shouldn’t need to settle for anything less than that.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

days don’t have to be great to be good days. good days can be calm and relatively uneventful, a small rest from seemingly longer days. those are the ones i find myself overlooking and then missing. there were days when i tasted really good fresh fruit or bought a happy little bee plant or took a nice nap or had lunch outside under the sun. those were good days i should have given more credit.