Breathe

“When you’re in an abusive relationship, the abuse, in your head, is a blip. It’s something that happens between the good times. You trick yourself with “everyone has problems in their relationship” and assume this is what healthy looks like. You only realise too late it’s not. You realise too late how unhappy you really are. You see, the brain is a beautiful and terrible thing, it is sharp as the end of a knife, whilst staying soft as silk against your cheek. It is a paradox and it holds you hostage, it turns on you when it goes through trauma. It takes time to convince your own mind that you deserve better and what is happening to you is messed up and you must find a way out.”

There is a flower shop in Portland that had to close due to the COVID19 pandemic. Instead of ditching their entire supply of flowers, they decided to beautify the city and put gorgeous flower arrangements all over Portland.

““I want you to like me when i’m fucked up because that’s when you see the real me”