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I love sufjan stevens music bc it‘s so peaceful. you can listen to it on a hot summer day while you’re laying in the grass reading some crappy book, your heart light. but you can also listen to it, while your head is buried between your knees, tears flowing and heart aching.

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And honey that‘s all I was made for, all I was meant to do. I‘m just something, something made for you.

- SOFIA ISELLA, Muse

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hold my hand through all of it please, for i am not strong enough to tell you with words how much I need to be held right now.

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sunsets with pink colored skies, gentle and caring people. a breeze running through my hair and a kiss upon my cheek. someone squeezing my hand and laughing, adrenaline rushing through my veins. wanna hold on and let it go again. I wanna soak it all up.

I’m gonna live this life with all I got and I’m gonna love as bright as I can.

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book so good you need to put it down during the most gut wrenching, thrilling, heart tearing part to just take a few breaths and calm down

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social media has left us to believe that self care means putting on a face mask and some expensive lotion and binge watching a random tv show. and while that can be very self soothing and I won't deny it's effects, I would like to give my perspective on some other things I consider to be self care. the things social media doesn't talk about enough in my opinion:

crying your eyes out, when all feels too much and you're so overwhelmed you need to literally let it all out

picking yourself back up again after failure, loss, hard times in general etc.

taking a shower on those days where you really don't feel like it

lighting a candle or placing some old fairy lights in your room to have a little bit of light on darker days

taking the time to pick out an outfit for yourself or generally wearing something you feel comfortable and cozy in

asking people for help

journaling out your thoughts so they don't weigh too heavy in your mind

seeking help in form of a therapist, groups etc.

speaking up for yourself

taking care of yourself

cleaning your space, especially after you couldn't do it for a while because you didn't have the energy for it

accepting the fact that you can't do anything today other than just existing and breathing (and if you've been there you know how hard it can be to accept that without feeling ashamed or like a failure)

the list can go on forever but what I wanna say is: it's okay to not be okay, it's okay to seek help, you're not alone, you're doing your best and that's enough and if no one told you today: I'm proud of you, you got this.

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currently reading if we were villains and it‘s been great so far, I can‘t wait to keep reading but work is calling.. oh well

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It just occurred to me how cooking after a recipe is basically trusting this stranger you never met, that’s called something weird like „BananaBreadKimchi“ on a random cooking site, that your dinner will taste good.