affirmations/reminders
The more self-regulated you become, the more you realize that communicating your feelings isn’t an emergency. You can sit with it. Sleep on it. Let the wave pass. You don’t have to rush into expression just because the emotion feels loud.
from @njavwastevens on threads | a reminder that you can work towards & change what feels impossible to, don’t let yourself fall into personal stagnancy.
“overwhelm shows you that the system doesn’t fit.”
@jurrassiic on instagram
"I thought I wanted to be a mountain, but why not the moon?"
— A quote from the book A Natural History of Transition by Callum Angus
“She had had the great fortune of being ripped from the tedium of the everyday.“
— A quote from the book A Natural History of Transition by Callum Angus
we are simply incapable of imagining ourselves on the other side of a profound change, because the present self doing the imagining is the very self that needs to have died in order for the future self being imagined to emerge.
This is why the profoundest changes tend to happen not willed but spawned by fertile despair — the surrender at the rock
... See more— a reminder to glance back and look at how far you’ve come. be proud of yourself <3
Cut a chrysalis open and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly… No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.
— Pat Barker
— Pat Barker
