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may + a much needed self care page

18.02.17 • 15:21PM pretty happy with how this turned out, self care ideas in my bullet journal ~ click to see higher quality photo

Edit: I’ve since fixed the spelling mistake

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Last week is over so time to reflect which good things happened and what I’ll do next week. This week, I loved our book club meeting, going to see an opera with my mom, taking a bath in a waterfall back in Brazil and having starfruit juice in Ipanema, Rio. What did you like about the past week?

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my self care pages! theyre a little messy and unplanned but thats life!! activities to help soothe sore spirits:

light candles

sit out in the sun

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pull a blanket or big scarf tight around your shoulders for deep, soothing pressure

stretch! stretch yourself as big as possible and then curl yourself as tiny as possible. breathe

make a list of the things that bring you the most comfort. put them all together in a big box.

write down everything you need to get done. plan out the coming week. vaguely. in detail. whatever you need

sit in a coffee shop and people watch! make up stories for them. who are they? what do they do? where do they come from?

make a big, hot, sweet cup of tea

or hot chocolate with marshmallows and cream

change into some fresh clean clothes - or alternatively: some cozy pyjamas

take a walk for some fresh air. take pictures of anything that catches your eye

write out everything on your mind into a journal or on a piece of paper. scribble out all the words after.

bake something sweet. something not. make up some dough for bread and beat the air out of it. release all your pent up anger, sorrow, frustration. angry kneading = good bread also, my (personal) morning self care checklist:

water first, then coffee or tea

light lovely candle(s)

go through routine with softs (blanket over knees, bunny to hand, soft hoodie)

plan outfit night before, get dressed last.

eat something, anything (even if its tiny)

snakehipped

i want to make myself a self-care planner for the upcoming year. looking for inspiration

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se putx odia a los ratis

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“be gay! hate cops!”

the-sociologist

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In honour of National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, some of our favourite tributes to police from 2015.

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Remember Michael Whaley?

He was the black (discharged) marine that hates Black Lives Matter because Black people commit too much “black on black crime” and we need to stop being so violent towards one another…

Well he just threatened to kill me.

Lmao you seriously can’t make this shit up.

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hit dogs holler and he is HOWLING

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This man is crazy

snakehipped

wowwwwww

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Angry

I'm in disbelief, but still yet not surprised....that I just watched the news and a cop was shot by a black man during a traffic stop....the news anchor said "the man was involved in a minor marijuana deal" "this could have ended in a simple fine." Like.....I HIGHLY doubt you'd be reporting about the hundreds of cases where black individuals are murdered by a white cop and say the exact same shit. UGH

krusca

lol there are soulmates and then there are saltmates where u and another person have an unbreakable bond by being salty abt the same things

snakehipped

LOL

Rocking Gospel Guitar

badass, i admire women like this so much. its unbelievable how many wonderful women in this world go without much attention...i know who Jimi Hendrix is....but not the woman who pioneered rock and roll? not cool. more research to be done :]

#badasswomen #womenshistory #womenofcolor #empowerment #badassbitch

phreequea

all the highly empathetic people i know in my life have had abusive home lives and that’s because we were trained to read a situation at any given moment in our homes and learn how to react within seconds because if we didn’t and said or did the wrong thing, we’d get fucked up and beat and hurt

but like subconsciously always reading the mood of any atmosphere or space you’re in, always being able to gauge how people feel, it’s not a fucking gift, it’s exhausting. you can’t turn it off, even if you want to. you read the situation and if it’s negative, you freak out because if someone’s angry at you, it’s the end of the world

like we’ve internalized the scars from our childhood when an adult being mad at you was the worst thing ever and it’s carried with us into adulthood. it’s hard to unlearn all that.

so like a lot of us have mental health or anxiety issues because we also start internalizing all the energy from people, be it positive or negative, and so anxiety-inducing and frustrating to the point of tears

septemberpoems

#hello this is called hypervigilance#And is a symptom of ptsd#And the fear of fucking up or someone being angry at us if we don’t respond to the emotion correctly#is known as a ‘maladaptive schema’#Which means that when our brains were developing#the constant traumatic or abusive environment wrote some base code into our brains#that influence the way we can filter and assess any infortmation#So all information we receive goes through the panic centre first and then gets viewed through this trauma induced coding#Which is why even when we know theoretically that we are ok and safe#we still go into panic and act instinctively

…..I had no idea this counted as hypervigilance. no idea what so ever.

snakehipped

MY FUCKING LIFE. WILL IT EVER END? it feels like no matter what...no matter how hard i work to unlearn and practice self-care....that ill never escape the dreadful anxiety and panic that happens anytime someone is unhappy with me/something I've said/done, etc.