The outcome is only uncertain for those who disbelieve.

if we could all stop pretending we are whole, and instead embrace our constant becoming…

…perhaps we could begin to love the process of growth and change, rather than anxiously awaiting the final form.

The whole self love thing is good and all but some people can’t fathom being loved. They can’t imagine there being anything good about them. So they can’t simply just stop doing unhealthy things, there’s a process.

Before self love you have to invoke self tolerance and self neutrality.

If you can’t say “I love my body!” say “my body gets me from place to place.”

If you can’t say “I’m beautiful,” begin by shutting down the “I’m ugly” thoughts and saying “I’m a person.”

If you can’t say “I’m valuable” begun by shutting down the “I’m worthless” thoughts and say “all people deserve basic respect, and I’m a person.”

If you can’t say “I’m important,” or “I’m kind” say “I am the one who waters my plant every week” or “I am the one who tips the kind barista down the street” or “I am the one who makes sure my dog does not eat plastic” or “I am the one who leaves long comments on people’s fan fictions.”

Recovery doesn’t mean being happy all the time. Recovery doesn’t mean having boundless energy and never showing symptoms and being a ray of sunshine at every moment. 

You can still be in recovery if you have bad days. You can still be in recovery if you show symptoms. Recovery is having fewer bad days, coping better with your symptoms. 

Recovery is having the coping mechanisms in place to deal with bad days when they come along so they aren’t as bad as they might have been before, and not falling into unhealthy habits that may have made them worse, made them last longer, or made them happen more often. 

Recovery is prioritising the energy you do have effectively, and doing things that help to maximise that energy. Recovery is forgiving yourself for being tired and allowing yourself rest. 

You don’t have to aim for perfectly, unfalteringly happy to be better, you just have to aim for better. 

Progress gif for this (x).

Jack Rackham and Charles Vane from Black Sails. (Anne Bonny in the background).

I was looking at my saved sketches (they work as previews for myself when I’m not actively working with the drawing) and thought they would look cool as a gif and tell a bit of a story at the same time. I changed the canvas size occasionally so that’s why this is a bit jumpy. Not quite sure what exactly happened before this (outside the tent), so have fun having your own head canons lol. Please, do not repost elsewhere :)

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aw this gifset is awesome thank you for the comments :)

Tennessee Williams: “Support All Bold Things”  (via commovente)

I actually sort of needed this

I don’t really have a process. I’m very much an in-the-moment actress. I suppose I just kind of wing it because I feel that as long as I know my character, I should be able to be spontaneous on set.

The constant process

Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami