Working To Be Better

For all students of all ages, I know midterms have been difficult and have most likely taken a toll on your mental health.

Make sure that in between your studies and essays, you’re taking time to hydrate, eat, sleep, and care for yourself in ways that make you feel good and content!

Best of luck with the rest of midterms, you’ve got this!

Friendly reminder that it’s OKAY if you’re incredibly productive one day but can’t get out of bed the next. That does not necessarily mean that you are regressing with your progress.

Our energy comes and goes, and it takes a while and a lot of practice to find a perfect balance. Take time to recharge yourself without feeling guilty for it!

Chores can wait, friends can wait. You are the most important person in your life, so feel free to take your time to heal.

Good things most definitely come to those who wait. Stick around a while longer.

Hello loves! Sorry, been busy working like crazy. Making money and gearing up for the school year though! I’ve got my 20th birthday dinner coming up tomorrow and I’m honestly only feeling excitement rather than worry or nervousness about eating out at a restaurant. Furthermore, I’m wearing a bodycon dress!! Tomorrow (if it goes smoothly) will be a major win for recovery. Hope everyone is well!

Reminder that when you receive a diagnosis of any kind…

That does NOT mean you are broken.

That does NOT mean you are incapable.

That does NOT mean you are not worthy.

Diagnosis can be a positive and powerful thing. Receiving help, either through talk therapy, medication, or other methods, just means that you don’t have to carry that load all by yourself anymore.

Sending love to all.

Happy Saturday, loves!

I’ve been thinking, and I think it’s worth it to make a comment regarding the upcoming ‘bikini season’ and the mindset around it.

Please remember that you are not supposed to change your body to fit your clothes, but rather, you should buy clothes that fit your body (and make you feel good as hell).

Wearing swimsuits shouldn’t be daunting, but rather should be an indicator of a great time swimming with friends, or boating, or whatever insert-water-sport-here you do!

All of you are truly beautiful and handsome and amazing and worthy of feeling wonderful in your bodies, no matter what!

TL;DR: FUCK diet culture! You’re a baddie!

Making pancakes this morning, and I’m super excited for it! I don’t think I’ve eaten proper pancakes in a very long while.

What’s your favorite breakfast food?

In quarantine and they’re delivering meals from the caf. It’s sorta guilt-tripping me into eating because of the hard work that everyone puts in (cooking, delivering, etc.) so it’s an incentive to eat normally again.

Things are sort of looking up? Mentally not in the right headspace but we’re definitely working on it. Hope everyone is well!

Gonna try working out tomorrow morning for the sake of moving my body in a way that represents self love and compassion. I’ve been pretty sedentary and it makes me feel grubby just in the way of fatigue and lack of motivation. Hopefully a little morning cycling will work to counteract that!

Gonna be paying attention to my mental state especially. No compensation for any recovery intake, just good ole’ movement and meditation!

What’s a fear food of yours that doesn’t make any sense at all?

Mine is avocados. BUT I’ve recently been eating them more, so *win!*

When your safety blanket is a gift from your ex’s family and you’re upset about your ex so u try to find comfort in the blanket but there is none because it reminds you of him :^)

To make matters worse, his clothes were the only ones I felt truly safe and comfortable in and now I am stuck without them.

Trying to find safety in myself now.

Sometimes the only thing that can make you feel better is a bag of popcorn and some cookie dough.

You truly are beautiful.

If things suck right now, we can suffer together. You’re not required to be on your A-game all the time.

Allow yourself to feel all emotions, even if they hurt for some time.

You are worthy of so much. You will accomplish so many wonderful things in your life, some things you haven’t even thought of yet. Stick around for a bit longer and see how things go.

I can promise that it’ll get better. Maybe not immediately, but things will improve.

Something useful my therapist taught me was that we should view certain thoughts as though they’re clouds.

When you’re cloud-gazing, you don’t compare a cloud to a dog and then think “dog, dog, dog” and obsessively watch it cross the sky.

In that same way, you shouldn’t dwell so hard on a maladaptive thought. You aren’t required to act on your harmful thoughts.

Recognize it and move on. You’ll be okay.