Welcome to the other side of sanity.

[1617]

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[thoughtkick]

“Despite how open, peaceful, and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you as deeply as they’ve met themselves.”

— Matt Kahn

[guerrillatech]

[yvessaintlesbienne]

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give yourself time.🌱 if it takes longer for you to do everyday things, it’s okay. if you need longer to make a decision, it’s okay as well. if it takes longer for you to get out of bed or to gather motivation to do things, it is okay. please do not rush yourself, please do not feel bad because others need less time than you do, it is okay. you decide how much time you need and you set the pace. and guess what? that is totally okay. give yourself time.

[coffeepeople]

I find it endlessly fascinating that most humans just want someone who will get up in the middle of the night to close the windows with them when it starts down pouring. We want someone to dry our dishes after we wash them. We just want another person to do mundane activities with. We want to tell someone how the copy machine broke at work and we want to listen to how Debra is causing office drama again. We just want something so simple. We want human connection and honesty and to be bored with someone else instead of bored alone. 

[owlmylove]

no one tells you how much of life takes practice. not just writing, painting, running, singing, etc, but practicing how to make friends. how to make the right ones. getting practiced at how to be a good friend, a good sibling, a good person. practice identifying when people haven’t earned that. learning to recognize your right to rage and, eventually, how to offer mercy. so much of life is muscle memory, and i’ve begun to realize there are so many more parts of ourselves to flex and stretch and strengthen than those we’re taught in anatomy lessons

[lilmamabeyellin]

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[mayessta]

[luxurybrownbarbie]

If you establish boundaries, be ready to defend those boundaries. People are tricky and often feel as though they are entitled to access to you, and some will see your boundaries as a test.

I have cut some people out of my life, people I loved more than anything, who didn’t listen to me or keep my boundaries in mind.

Trust yourself, trust your instincts, and you will be so much happier in the long run. Temporary pain is worth it for permanent peace of mind.

[aidashakur]

Paint me however you want. I know my heart good & solid.

[perrfectly]

“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won’t mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever…. connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”

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[aidashakur]

Becoming less reactive is a big part of growth & decreasing stress. Sometimes this type of avoidance can be looked at as lack of interest or uncaring, but it isn’t. If you let everything get you worked up, you’re damaging your mind, body & soul

[remanence-of-love]

[half-baked-biscuit]

*sighs* oh, shit.

[scarletrain1724]

Bold of you to assume post that I have and can forgive myself

[dependent-boy]

to anyone enduring a depressive episode: it’s ok. you’re not being lazy or selfish. your productivity doesn’t define or devalue you. you’re coping. you’re doing the best you can, and that’s ok!