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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

Aidan Chambers (via purplebuddhaquotes)

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5 years ago i was a fucking mess & now i’m a fucking mess but at peace with it and with cooler fashion sense

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Companies sell us soap to strip our bodies of natural oils and then they sell us moisturizers to replace the oils.

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i wish there was more talk on tumblr about hypersexuality as a response to trauma, tbh. i see a lot of talk about asexuality and sex-repulsion due to trauma, but i rarely see people talk about the opposite. idk, its a difficult subject i suppose

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Hypersexuality as a result of trauma can happen because you start believing you’re not good for anything else but sex. Because you believe you can’t expect love without it. Because you believe sex is the only way anyone could possibly connect to others. Because sex is the only kind of intimacy you’re “any good at”. Because you don’t know how else to get attention. Because it’s easier to get sex than love. Because cuddling after sex is the only way you know how to get nonsexual physical touch. Because you’re high/drunk all the time. Because you have no libido/desire/attraction anymore and keep hoping that having sex will kickstart it. Because you’re good at sex and it’s the only way to get recognition and respect. Because you were told that you’re “bad at sex” and you feel ashamed and are trying to “get better at it.” Because you have flashbacks if you abstain from sex. Because you feel wordlessly desperate/scared/anxious if you don’t have sex for a certain period of time. Because you associate sex with danger and you don’t believe you’re allowed to be safe. Because you feel so bad so much of the time that sex/orgasm is the only way to calm down or feel good anymore. Because you’ve been re-targeted by other abusers/perpetrators who can tell you don’t know how to say no. Because you’re still with your abuser/rapist/perpetrator and the only way to prevent “worse” violence is to initiate sex. Because sex is physically or emotionally painful for you and you’re using sex to self-harm.

Hypersexuality after trauma is way more common than anyone wants to believe, and it can happen for so, so many different reasons. These are just a few.

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In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

Mitch Albom (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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I never thought I’d be the kind of girl who would float like a hundred dandelion wisps on a nostalgic breeze of uncertain promises. But there I was. We were slow dancing. Heading straight for the sun.

A scribbler // Not That Kind Of Girl (via scribblingwithstardust)

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Thomas Cian

Piercing through the surface of artwork, the sitters in artist Thomas Cian’s portraits confront the viewer with their gaze. In their silence, they grant permission to the explore the surface of their skin in an effort to piece together the scars from their journey through life. In the shadows of their form, we catch a glimpse of the reality they inhabit. Painstakingly capturing in photo realistic quality the details of these subjects, Cian aims simply to function as a narrator for a glimpse at one moment in time.

from the scratches series, Graphite on schoeller paper, 25,5 x 36,5 cm, 2015

JD, Dalila and Juri graphite and viarco artgraf on 2mm schoeller paper, 2015

from the Friendsbook series, 2012

Flowers, 2014

from the scratches series, Graphite on schoeller paper, 25,5 x 36,5 cm, 2015

The City, graphite on paper 25.5x36.5, 2014

turquoise, graphite and gouache on schoeller paper 25,5 x 35,5 cm, 2015

nightwalk, 100 x 70 graphite + watercolor graphite by viarco, 2015, images posted with permission of the artist.

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