Misanthrope

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, "DEPRESSION [VERB]", Lord of the Butterflies

[weltenwellen]

Glennon Doyle, Untamed

[wetheurban]

The intimacy of "for you, I would."

[scorpionlafemme]

[haverst]

[xanaxfarts]

[weltenwellen]

Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

[thehiddenhill]

[drunkoflove]

Eye to eye

[dsamuelsonart]

Embrace III

Oil on panel, 6 x 6”

[wetheurban]

How to Return to Yourself Stop performing. Don't overgive. Choose peace over proving. Reclaim the parts you abandoned to be loved. Let it hurt. Feel it fully. Release it. Do your spiritual work. Forgive yourself for surviving in ways you had to. Try not to take anything personally. Zoom out. Remember who you were before they made you doubt it. Protect your energy like it’s sacred, because it is. Choose you... again and again.

[wetheurban]

Universe, please keep me soft, but hard to fool. Surround me with energy that pours back into me. Expose what’s not real. Elevate what is. And when I forget who I am, bring me home.

[20th-century-man]

Photo by André de Dienes.

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “The Telescope”, Instructions for Traveling West

[aidashakur]

[weltenwellen]

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from “Of Love”, Red Bird

[rickinmar]

Dune Shacks. Truro. detail of a George Grosz painting. 1940, Cape Cod.