positiveautistic:

Be gentle with yourself, you are healing.

mytherapeuticthoughts:

This is common in people who have endured childhood trauma. In order to survive, we become so adept at hiding our feelings that denial becomes a way of life. But over time, the denial of our true feelings and experiences prevents us from growing and moving on. We stay stuck in the past. Michelle Stevens

retroowl8:

No one will know the violence it took to become this gentle.

imaginethisinstead:

things you need calories for:

• solving equations or writing poems
  
• to fight for things you care about
  
• keeping yourself warm
  
• to sleep well at night and stay awake during the day
  
• to be happy
  

sunflowergrowing:

Fuck diet culture.

clem-style:

heart-of-a-wildflower:

ED: you need to be underweight!

Me: why?

ED: because then you’ll have accomplished…something,

Me: what?

ED: …something

noorskitchen:

One of the most challenging things I’ve had to learn is that healing must be intentional. There is no one golden day that comes and saves you from all your misery. Healing is a practice. You have to decide that it’s what you want to do and actively do it. You have to make a habit out of it. Once I learned that, I only looked back to see how far I came.

trinidadienne:

“Jessica has a forehead scar from the deep end of a pool. I ask Jessica what drowning feels like and she says not everything feels like something else.”

— Angie Sijun Lou, “Jessica gives me a chill pill,” published in Muzzle (via bostonpoetryslam)