#self permission

[thrivingwhilemultiple]

I give myself permission to exist within my body, within my mind, and to treat myself with kindness.

I give myself permission to cry, to rage, to wilt, to laugh. Permission to have emotions and empathy, opinions and impressions. To have desires, deference, and defiance.

I give myself permission to live my best life and be my best Self.

[solymandros]

Nobody is coming to give you permission.

Not your parents, not your partner, not the version of yourself you're waiting to become before you start. The permission you are looking for does not exist anywhere outside you, which is why you have been looking for so long without finding it.

This is not a tragedy. It is the most liberating thing there is.

It means the waiting is optional. The door was never locked. You were always the one with the key.

What would you do first, if you genuinely believed you didn't need anyone's permission?

~ Solymandros

[onespacewithyurko]

Even a Cat Knows: You Don’t Have to Fix Emptiness Right Away

 “You don’t have to rush.”

I once watched a cat sit inside an empty box for hours.

No phone. No drama. No plan.

Just… sitting. Staring. Doing absolutely nothing.

And then, suddenly, it jumped out, stretched, and calmly went on with its day.

No explanation. No transformation arc. No “lesson learned.”

Maybe that’s the point.

Maybe emptiness doesn’t always need fixing. Maybe it needs space. Time. Permission.

You don’t have to rush your way out of it. You’re allowed to sit with it for a while.

And move on when you’re actually ready — not when you think you should be.

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[cose-belle]

Speak to your darkest and most negative interior voices the way a hostage negotiator speaks to a violent psychopath: calmly, but firmly. Most of all, never back down. You cannot afford to back down. The life you are negotiating to save, after all, is your own.

“Who the hell do you think you are?” your darkest interior voices will demand.

“It’s funny you should ask,” you can reply. “I’ll tell you who I am: I am a child of God, just like anyone else. I am a constituent of the universe. I have invisible spirit benefactors who believe in me, and who labor alongside me. The fact that I am here at all is evidence that I have the right to be here. I have a right to my own voice and a right to my own vision. I have a right to collaborate with creativity, because I myself am a product and a consequence of Creation. I’m on a mission of artistic liberation, so let the girl go.”

- Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic

[andsoshespins]

Written Permission

I have expressed in these digital pages before about my constant and annoying need for permission.  

Today, I think I realized that until I write about whatever is plaguing my brain, I do not give myself permission to move on with it or move past it.  It is a strange self-inflicted process to which I have subscribed for quite some time.  

I also think this self-prescribed process answers questions I often ask myself such as, “Why have I not been writing?” or “Why have I put off writing about this topic or event for so long?”  Because once I do, I know I need to move forward with the issue.  And sometimes that is a scary endeavor, and we like to postpone the responsibility of whichever thing beseeches us and our attentions.

Writing grants a kind of freedom I have not been seeking lately.

Looks like I will be trying to make more time for granting myself some more written permission. 

[chanelle-white]

What permission do you need to give yourself to be, do, or have what you want?