Radiate Positive Vibes

i just think that, most of the time, you really do need to teach people how to love you. and equally, you need to be taught how to love others. this can feel scary and hard and even like a failure, especially if you're approaching a relationship with trauma - shouldn't it be easy to love me? yeah ofc. but love is an act of translation between people across experience, geography, culture, memory. it's constant, purposeful translation. and though it can be hard, there is real joy to be found in the teaching and learning of love.

There is no final point in healing its a never ending process

please please please remember that no matter what your manager says, it is never that serious. unless you are literally performing surgery or defusing a bomb, it simply is not that serious

I tell anyone who works under me “we’re not saving lives” any time they get too anxious about their work. There are so many jobs that you literally cannot mess up in a way that actually matters.

Finally experiencing good things after being in a really shit place for a while can actually feel really destabilizing. When you spend years growing ever more convinced you can't be loved and then suddenly are, it can really screw with your conception of yourself and your experience. That's okay. It doesn't mean those things are bad. It doesn't mean that you're not meant for good things. It doesn't mean it's wrong. It just means that your perception of your life has been so deeply embroiled in the pain of your existence that realizing what's truly out there for you forces a massive shift in perspective, and any shift like that is going to be hard, even if it's good. Keep going. Keep loving. Keep experiencing all that is good for you in this life. One day you'll get used to being happy.

your guardian angel told me to tell you that it’ll be okay and that you should just take it easy for the next few days

Just because someone doesn’t like your boundaries doesn’t mean that you’re being rude or unkind. You do not have to make yourself uncomfortable to make someone else comfortable!!!!!

whenever i spend my day outside when the weather is good i’m like wow i’ve finally unlocked the secret to inner peace

one thing that so many students forget is that, a win is a win. if you planned on doing english homework but instead you finished your history essay, celebrate that, don’t be upset taht you didn’t sick to your plan, at least you got SOMETHING DONE. a win is a fucking win and don’t let anyone tell you different.

The way you change your immediate reactions to things is that you catch yourself having an uncharitable/bigoted/overly judgmental thought and you catch it and replace it and then you do that a hundred times a day for your whole life and eventually one day like five years later you realize that you think differently now and you’ll always be working on something but that’s how life goes and that’s fine.

I won’t wish for the universe to be gentle with you or me or anyone else. That’s not in our control. But, I will wish for us to learn to be gentle with ourselves and each other. That’s where our power is.