the feminine urge to release a gut wrenching scream from the depths of your soul

you’re doing a good job. even if no one notices, you’re doing a damn good job.

having an old memory resurface or a trigger come up out of the blue sometimes doesn’t mean you’re not moving forward and moving on. it’s just a part of the process, and it likely won’t ever fully go away because it’s a part of you and your past. but you are still growing and healing.

you deserve so much good in this life. i know that’s hard to remember, to accept. it’s a much easier thing to argue when you know your flaws and your mistakes. but i just want to try to give you even a little reassurance that you do deserve a healthy, happy life. you shouldn’t need to settle for anything less than that.

days don’t have to be great to be good days. good days can be calm and relatively uneventful, a small rest from seemingly longer days. those are the ones i find myself overlooking and then missing. there were days when i tasted really good fresh fruit or bought a happy little bee plant or took a nice nap or had lunch outside under the sun. those were good days i should have given more credit.