STEPS TO CLEARING SPACE TO HEAR THE RIGHT QUESTIONS THAT ARE KNOCKING ON YOUR SOUL’S DOOR:

remove any object that no longer feels good to you. clothes, books, jewelry. empty the junk drawer of things you’ll never need. clear the boxes in the closet. honor sentimentality but let go of what isn’t yours anymore.
don’t fill the space with something new. allow the space to just exist. let it breathe.
have conversations you have been putting off.
reflect on the stories you tell yourself about who you are and your limits. write a list of these limits.
write a list of the opposite of these beliefs. let yourself imagine what you could be capable of if you trusted yourself. keep these lists together as a reminder.
delete old text threads & emails. unsubscribe from things you’re no longer interested in. clean your camera roll.
buy a small journal to carry around with you. leave it blank until you feel called to write in it. it could be a day from now, a month from now.
don’t feel that you need to answer every question you are asked. get comfortable with “I don’t know yet.”
write a list of things you learned you should want for your life (type of relationship, career, lifestyle, etc.). get specific on what you feel isn’t your dream but maybe someone else’s. release them back into the ether. let them go.
forgive.

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My 10 Step Anti-Aging Skincare Routine

by Emery Allen

start with an expensive cleanser made of seaweed and ground up saltwater pearls. of a beautiful girl’s tears that can make you just as beautiful. double cleanse, quadruple cleanse, cleanse until your skin is empty of the whole life that you wear on your face.

use the acid that comes in a gold bottle to remove the damaged layers. become as new as birth. become even newer. here, I’ll show you how.

turn into cheekbones and skin and lose all roundness. forget the glow of your moon face, one once worshipped for its fullness. that’s better.

become smaller and smaller until you are nothing but a little spirit of light dimming. then, maybe, you can fit.

use micro currents to tighten your face for only $499. wear a red light mask, too, become red light if you can afford it.

drink a gallon of water a day to avoid wrinkles. drink as much as a pond. become a pond and forget the body all together. be as smooth as an undisturbed day. windless, motionless. still, quiet.

forget yourself. do everything less, live outside of your body and watch it like a stranger. bury your intuition in beauty products and a pile of trendy jeans.

and god forbid, don’t get old. never get old.

never get loud, never get angry, never get something in your teeth, never let your eyeliner smear, in fact never wear makeup that looks like makeup. never let your skin grow pale, grow dry, grow lived in. hide your pores, hide your sadness, hide your ambitions. never turn a man down, oh just ignore it. never ask for more than a crumb. never want the whole dinner, and dessert too. never want more than they are giving you right now. be grateful to have any of it. never drink more than two drinks, never go a day without sunscreen, never forget your retinol even when it leaves you raw. it’s doing its job. never sleep on your side, never want more for yourself, never be selfish, never grow. never forget to moisturize your hands, too.

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