🌙lillianne✨

✨25✨USA✨spoonie✨may all who enter this blog do so with a heart of pure intent✨

[healing-is-cool]

You are going to laugh until your stomach hurts again. You're going to be in awe of a sunset. Watch your favorite show while you eat your favorite food. Find money on the street. Discover a great band you haven't heard of before. You will find your way back.

[slfcare]

Do not hide away the part of yourself that’s unhappy, bothered or hurt just because you feel like doing so will make others feel more comfortable. You don’t live to make others comfortable, you live for yourself, which means you owe it to yourself to be honest about your true feelings. The only way to let an open wound heal properly is to take care of it, not to ignore it.

[lorsanbitch]

bruh if people want me to stop sympathizing with villains they need to stop making the villains the ones who want to change broken systems

[rfarrokh]

R.E.C.O.V.E.R.Y. Love the acronym ❤️💖❤️ #recovery #alcoholrecovery #drugrecovery #substanceabuserecovery #depressionrecovery #anxietyrecovery #anorexiarecovery #bulimiarecovery #arfidrecovery #osfedrecovery #atypicalanorexiarecovery #codependencyrecovery #abuserecovery #bullyingrecovery #adhdstruggles #ticrecovery #bingerecovery #bingepurgerecovery #ocdrecovery #bipolarrecovery #depressivedisorderrecovery #traumarecovery #borderlinepersonalitydisorderrecovery #ptsdrecovery #complexptsdrecovery #dissociativedisorder #ednosrecovery #rachaelsroadtorecovery #impulsecontrol #caffeineaddiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CRDvSDDJ1Zk/?utm_medium=tumblr

[redsmileyco]

Sobriety isn’t just about drugs n alcohol… it’s about anything you do to “escape” or harm yourself…. sex, toxic relationships, toxic behaviors, self harm of any kind, etc. 🫂💜💙💚💛🧡💛💚💙💜🫂 #sobriety #ptsd #sobrietyjourney #ptsdrecovery #addictionrecovery #selfcare #cptsdrecovery #sexaddictionrecovery #alcoholrecovery #drugrecovery #sobrietyjourney #emotionalsobriety (at Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ccx4jMMLBtv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[selfhealingmoments]

at the end of the day it’s just you and your silly little life. so go on, enjoy it, be the person you want to be.

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

Add a Crow for aerial tricks and I’m so in

[nochiquinn]

I feel like the line between “fluffy uwu self care” and “get your shit together self care” is thinner than people seem to think. Like, sitting in a quiet space with a book and maybe some twinkly fairy lights gives me the spoons to go call my damn doctor like I’ve been meaning to. Bath bombs or shower steamers make me feel content and/or sparkly, which gives me confidence to go out in public. (Plus, I bathed.) I dye my hair funky colors so if I feel like people are staring at me I can say it’s at that instead of whatever my anxiety wants it to be. 

The two are not mutually exclusive, is what I’m getting at, and I never see that mentioned, just either “self care is being nice to yourself” or “self care is kicking yourself in the ass to function for a few hours”. Kick yourself in the ass with niceness.

[aspecpplarebeautiful]

It's OK if being ace or aro has been hard for you. It's OK if you've had difficult experiences because of you're ace or aro identity. It doesn't make you bad ace or aro person or mean you've done anything wrong at all.

[lillianne-lovesthemoon]

ive been practicing witchcraft over half my life (currently 25, started at 13)

i am a beginner

i am a baby witch

i need witch tips and advice

read that again.

[jojobaastudios]

Depression and The Craft

When I first started on my witchcraft journey, I thought that I was doing everything wrong. I thought that I could never be more than knowledgable and that my power was stifled by my depression.

I would ask all the elders and so called experts if my spells would work or if my manifestations would actually come if I was depressed. I got no responses, and when I did, it was to say that I was defective.

There was one mentor I had, who I eventually stuck with, that taught me that my soul and the will of my heart was more powerful than my illness. She taught me that I could still manifest great things while being in a depressive episode.

And while that may be common knowledge to most practitioners now, I know that there is a baby witch out there, thinking about the effectivness of their power. Wondering if it will ever amount to their knowledge on the craft, or if they’d just be a waste energy.

To that person, your mental health has no power over your own. It may feel like it leaks into all areas of your life and stops you from creating an amazing life where all your wishes are fulfilled, but you can do all that and more while still going through your sadness. You are not perpetually in 3D, you are not low vibrational, you are not spiritually defective.

You’re just a witch with mental issues.

[aspecpplarebeautiful]

You don't have to be aromantic to choose not to date. You don't have to be asexual to choose not to have sex. These things aren't mandatory for anybody.

[lillianne-lovesthemoon]

however, if u are aro or ace, you are welcome in my blog and my friend circle. you are valid and deserve a soft blanket and a warm (but not TOO hot) cup of tea.

[suggestionsofkindness]

If you have had off days/been sick/been super tired/something else, then try to take it slow this week. You can still be productive, but go at a slower pace than you usually would. It gives you some rest, a feeling of still doing something and yourself a chance to catch up with yourself. And sometimes it saves you from sick days, off days or more of the two. 🌸

[suggestionsofkindness]

Your health needs to come before your to do list and plans. It is good to take care of yourself, but it is also way smarter to catch things in the beginning rather than waiting for something to get worse, cause the worse it gets, the harder it is to get back from and the longer it takes to do so. 🌸

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

H/T also, it’s a great way to start a conversation about how you each identify (what you relate to about your sign, and what you dont), and demonstrates introspection.

[mamaangiwine]

"Lol Who cares if it's a closed practice? Who's gonna stop me? Who's gonna know? 🤣😝"

The gods.

The gods will know.

[mamaangiwine]

To clarify:

It's true nobody can stop you from "practicing" a closed spirituality behind closed doors.

But that's just it- you're not "practicing" anything.

Practicing a spirituality sometimes requires basic understanding, and sometimes understanding can't come from a book. Sometimes understanding is shaped by unspoken things that you have been taught through upbringing or initiation. Sometimes it is in the land; in its trees, it's earth, its water or even the way the sky turns to twilight. Sometimes it is in pain and suffering and in the way the world treats you.

These are understandings that create a foundation for spirituality. They are understandings that create a world view. Understandings that create a culture and it's people. With gods as an example, it is half of what informs the way they are percieved. It is half of what informs the way they are worshipped.

With some closed practices, it isn't so much that outsiders are not allowed to practice. It is that they literally can't, and to try is to further erode the practice's true nature. Which is disrespectful.

How can you worship a god if you lack the understanding behind that worship? If you fail to understand, or do not know, the offerings that they have become accustomed to? How can you worship a god if you cannot, or do not know, that you are meant to speak the language of their people? If tradition dictates that you prostrate? If tradition dictates you remain respectful but unwavering?

In this way, you are trying to interact with a god while simultaneously being unable to acknowledge key aspects of their godhood. How is that respectful? How is that devotion?

True, there are many open practices in which we cannot know these things- but that is because there is no one here to tell us. That is because many of those practices have been forgotten or syncretized so completely as to become their own new practice altogether. For some it is even because the culture is no more- its people scattered across the globe.

This is not the case with closed practices. Their people are still here, and everytime you choose to ignore them in favor of your own desires you are, in essence, treating them as though they are gone. You are treating the people, the people of the god you are worshipping, the practice you are implementing, as though they are ghosts.

So, once again, how is that respectful? How is that devotion? With many closed practices you are wandering into the spiritual domain of an oppressed people, and what exactly makes you think the gods of that domain would be in high supply of patience?

[just-shower-thoughts]

We’ve made flashlights but we haven’t made reverse flashlights

[heathyr]

artificial darkness would be funny as hell though i’d love to beam a line of night directly into someone’s face. go to the void