there's dykery afoot

Sam. 21. Scorpio. Lesbian.

[ohdoyouthinksodoctor-deactivate]

Removing the carpet on the stairs in my flat reveals arcane secrets

[bookoffixedstars]

Fabric sample ‘Ornito’ with a pattern of stylized birds that have been designed with an enlarged fingerprint to which have been added beaks, eyes and legs. Material: cotton,metal, paper, 1968. Designer: Heinz Edelmann (1934-2009). Produced by the fabric manufacturer Weverij De Ploeg. TextielMuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands.

[rabbitinthemeadow]

We plied through the days

[lesbianofshalott]

grocery store looks

[screenwriter]

[busylights]

ss 17 “modernization of soul” collection

[therapylesbian-blog]

Some distress tolerance DBT worksheets. It’s important to remember to only use these when you’re at the height of emotion and you need to bring yourself down to a level where you can actually manage the problem. If you use these when you’re able to manage the problem, they’re not useful and just a distraction. 

[claudemonet-art]

Vetheuil, L'Inondation 1881

Claude Monet

[lovberry]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BypsKadHxHf/?igshid=1nur7xpvb903w

[likeniobe]

you fools thinking shakespeare is about love drama death or humanity when it’s actually all about who can say the most and coolest words 

[movie-gifs]

Juno (2007), dir. Jason Reitman

[madeofwhitebone]

Margaret Howell is really it

[dyke-tm]

Pablo Picasso, baigneuses 1918

[emmadajska]

lazy girl’s dirty dream

[ancientorigins]

Bird Nesting At The Temple Of Horus, Egypt.

[therapylesbian-blog]

Letting Go of Painful Emotions

I’ve taken this from positivepsychology.com

Perhaps the most important emotion regulation skill, learning to let go can be very difficult but is worth the effort you invest.

Humans have a tendency to become stuck when attempting to process negative emotions. Instead of simply letting them go, we often hold ever tighter to them, obsessing over every little bit of our emotional experience and wondering why it’s happening to us.

It sounds paradoxical, but the act of accepting that we are feeling emotions we would rather not feel can be the key to letting go of them. When we accept that we are suffering, we stop running from the difficult emotions and turn to face them—and when we do, we might see that it wasn’t the big bad monster we thought it was, but a smaller and more manageable beast.

Follow these steps to work on your ability to let go of negative emotions:

Observe your emotion. Acknowledge that it exists, stand back from it, and get yourself unstuck from it;

Try to experience your emotion as a wave, coming and going. You may find it helpful to concentrate on some part of the emotion, like how your body is feeling or some image about it. 

Recognize that you are not your emotion. Your emotion is part of you, but it is not all of you. You are more than your emotion;

Do not necessarily act on the emotion; having the emotion does not mean that you have to act. You may just need to sit with the emotion. Often, acting can intensify and prolong the emotion;

Practice LOVING your emotions. This can be a difficult concept. Why would we want to love painful emotions?

We can learn to love our emotions just the way we can learn to love (accept) anything else about ourselves or our experience that we cannot change—our age, our height, freckles, the birds that sing early in the morning and wake us up, the weather, the size of our feet, allergies, etc.

Remember that acceptance (love) and approval are two different things. You don’t have to like your freckles, but they are there and you can’t change that, so if you just accept or love them, you will feel a lot better than if you keep fighting the idea that they are there (Dietz, 2012).

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