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yesterday marked my 6 months in therapy and i felt inspired to draw a little about my recovery! I used to be someone who thought therapy, self help books, and changing habits was just not for me and wouldn't work no matter what I did. I was having panic attacks, stomach aches before work every day, and slowly starting to feel resentful towards everyone around me. I think it's true that you can't receive help unless you want it, but I also think sometimes the best way to show others it's worth it to ask for help is simply to do it in your own life first! I'd be lying if I said everyone will stick around when you learn to uphold boundaries, and there is a lot of mourning that goes into learning how to grow and change... but ultimately there's nothing more loving you can offer yourself or the world than getting the help you need and learning how to ask for what you need and how to walk away when it is not respected. It's always painful to lose friends, opportunities, or even the satisfaction of being seen as selfless and giving... but anything you give away that you didn't have enough of for yourself is not an act of kindness it's an act of self betrayal!

hope someone who needs this message as bad as I did sees it and knows I am cheering them on!!! love u thank u

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I am too precious to sit still and let people use their cookie cutter behaviours on the landscape of my heart. I always loved creating. So now I will continue but this time I will create boundaries too. Aesthetic, sure. But so very functional. And the target audience, the person I have to understand the needs of and satisfy, is not any one else but me. I will be polite, yes. But bro, I started to use the words “fuck off” at the tender age of seven to keep seniors from messing with me so I will channelize that badassery now at twenty five if politeness is not a language your brain processes. TL;DR, it won’t take too long to tell you to fuck off from now on.