J. Collins 🍓

“I can’t abandon who I used to be, so I carry her.” - - - - - - - - - “I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person that I am today.”

[spiritualseeker777]

[theambitiouswoman]

The other day I heard someone say that being humble as a woman is dangerous and it struck me as true. Humility when it’s taken too far, doesn’t protect you. It only serves the people who want to take advantage of you

Your appearance, your empathy, your creativity, your kindness… these are all forms of currency. They hold value in the world. Even if you don’t recognize your own power, others will. And if you don’t learn how to protect and leverage it, there will always be someone ready to use it for themselves

Shrinking yourself, dismissing your gifts, or pretending they don’t matter is not humility. That’s leaving the door wide open for people who don’t have your best interest at heart

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[theambitiouswoman]

The best way to treat yourself is to treat yourself in your love language. So for example, If your love language is acts of service, try doing small, intentional things that make your life easier because you deserve to feel supported by you. This is one of the ways you will feel most fulfilled. Also remember that we teach people how to treat us, by how we treat ourselves

Acts of service: Cleaning your space, prepping your meals, planning your week, booking needed appointments, taking your vitamins, setting reminders, doing what you said you would do

Quality time: Take walks, sit in silence, read a book you love, journal, turning off your phone, making time just for you

Receiving gifts: Buy yourself flowers, order your favorite food, invest in things that are meaningful to you, wear something special just because, gift yourself something thoughtful

Words of affirmation: Write yourself a love note, say nice things in the mirror, make a gratitude list, read affirmations daily, celebrate yourself

Physical touch: Apply body oil, yoga or stretching, warm baths, gua sha or face roller, hug yourself, get a massage

love yourself, you deserve it 🤍

[imagination-king]

[stigmata-and-the-light]

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[elizabethsinclair]

- 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚣𝚊𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚑 𝚜.

[inkpressedpetals]

[destroymylife]

[recaption]

[sawasawako-archived]

the way you can resent your parents but also sympathise with and ache for them… so sick

[moonstoast]

letters to milena by franz kafka // camouflage by ron hicks // the golden notebook by doris lessing // ? // a letter to galatea kazantzaki by nikos kazantzakis

[heavyrain-dc]

“It was good for a while, being empty. I didn’t hurt anymore. But as time went on, it was like I could hear myself from far away, begging for permission to come back.”

— Myra McEntire

[surqrised]

“I thought, lying there, that I might love him for the rest of my life. We did love each other—maybe we never said it, and maybe love was never something we were in, but it was something I felt. I loved him, and I thought, maybe I will never see him again, and I’ll be stuck missing him, and isn’t that so terrible.”

— John Green, Turtles All The Way Down

[surqrised]

“I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see.”

— Douglas Pagels

[danger]

35/52 | Some Things Just Can’t Be Fixed. by Jared Tyler  

[letsmakepoppunkgreatagain]

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