recovery
We all have very good reasons not to trust ourselves. We’ve all betrayed ourselves badly, repeatedly, shamefully, and knowingly. Show me someone who hasn’t abandoned themselves, and I will show you a child. As we grow into adults, our world opens and we make mistakes. Ignoring your own needs and deserting yourself is a universal mistake.
Katherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
At a certain point we’re gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by by people
... See moreMost people live their lives in between these 2 emotions-
1. Hope that if they achieve something, they will find happiness.
2. Fear that if they lose what they have, they will never be happy.
The day you understand neither of them are actually true is the day you are free.
1. Hope that if they achieve something, they will find happiness.
2. Fear that if they lose what they have, they will never be happy.
The day you understand neither of them are actually true is the day you are free.
Joe Hudson • Tweet
Have faith: whatever the goal, the universe will provide lessons. Those lessons will either contain the growth to make you strong enough to accomplish the goal, or the wisdom to see a better goal.
Emmett Shear • Tweet
Often when people are stuck in life it’s because they’re holding out for the delusional possibility of a costless way of getting what they want, instead of just paying the cost
Sasha Chapinx.comForgiveness Prayer
In this moment of stillness,
I release the weight of past hurts and grievances,
Letting them dissolve like morning mist in the warmth of understanding.
To those who have caused me pain:
I acknowledge that you, too, were walking your own difficult path.
Your actions, though they wounded me,
Were born from your own struggles, fears, and... See more
In this moment of stillness,
I release the weight of past hurts and grievances,
Letting them dissolve like morning mist in the warmth of understanding.
To those who have caused me pain:
I acknowledge that you, too, were walking your own difficult path.
Your actions, though they wounded me,
Were born from your own struggles, fears, and... See more