#cycle breaking

[the-healing-mindset]

Some people see their actions as harmless. Or, they try to mask their actions by drowning you in endless gifts and attention, or by carrying out these grand gestures. In their mind, this is compensation for their inability to break their cycles of inappropriate behavior. However, you see it for what it is - an attempt to placate you so that you will stop calling them out on their "mistakes" that your are beginning to understand are a lot more than that.

Sometimes, you have to distance yourself from this if it continues to happen.

[throughthefogpress]

Hurt People Hurt People

They say hurt people hurt people like it’s a proverb you’re supposed to swallow whole— like pain is a permission slip passed quietly from one trembling hand to another. As if wounds are instructions. As if bleeding is a language that only knows how to say come closer so I can show you what it did to me. I have been hurt. Deeply. In places that still echo when someone shuts a…

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[tokoyamisstuff]

pretty random, but please

Share some fond memories of your childhood! ✨️

Were there any fun activities or traditions in your family? Did certain words or life lessions stuck with you? What influenced you positively?

tryna create a magical childhood for my kid but I have 0 positive experience to work with😩

[minotaurmerkaba]

[empathwitchliv]

[heulwenflower]

4. Lick

Lick

Lick

Lick it all up

Lick up the tears

Don't get sick on the salt

Atleast not infront of them

Lick up the blood

Don't let them see your pain

Lick up the love

Wether that's of once beautiful broken crockery or heart-shaped plates

It's rarely the latter

I'm used to the cuts when licking up the crumbs

Rarely getting served a slice

Lick up the hate

You made it yourself

Why shouldn't you taste it?

Lick up the shame

They made it specially for you

Why won't you try it?

Ya know what licking sucks

This ain't my dad's table

I don't have to eat everything before I leave

I don't have to try it to know I don't like it

And it's not a waste to admit I made the recipe the wrong and try again

It's my table now

I can be a safer cook

And a better host

Prompt from @nosebleedclub

[rowanhaletiuuwrites]

Picking Up The Peices

I started therapy again, and with it came this slow, hesitant return to journaling. Not the kind we did in grade school, where our biggest crisis was who sat woth who at lunch. This time its different. This time, its deliberate. This is me trying to meet myself where I’ve been avoiding myself. Journaling is still foreign. Therapy still feels like learning a language that I should have grown…