Watching Physical 100 for motivation >>> Watching my 600lb Life for motivation

You have to let people love you. You have to let people get to know you. You have to let people help you. Being so completely selfless that you try to erase yourself off the face of the planet and never ask for anything and reject everybody's offers of support makes you very hard to love! Unfortunately. Emptying yourself out of everything that makes you, you is not actually what your loved ones want from you, generally. They want to make you happy! They will be so so sad if you don't give them the chance. It's not all selfish. I promise.

The goal isn't to "eat perfectly," it's to eat in a way that regulates inflammation, stabilizes the nervous system, protects emotional digestion, supports steady energy, avoids overstimulation, & keeps the body grounded.

“do i deserve this?” “am i good enough for this?” “do i want this”

you know what’s wild is that all these crazy standards we hold ourselves to are things that we don’t even value in another person? like i’ve never been like “wow I love that this friend of mine is too proud to ask for help and never complains about their feelings” or “my favorite quality about this friend is that they get straight A’s and never get overwhelmed and has never told me about a problem” or “i love that this friend has never been wrong about anything or slipped up and said something embarrassing once in their life” and yet here we are, pushing ourselves past our limits for and beating ourselves up over slipups of things that our friends probably wouldn’t even rank in the top 50 reasons they like us

Actually, you are enough. Even if you don’t work. Or study. Or go out. Or have friends. Or have family. You’re enough because you exist and your existence is enough to be enough because you are not a product. You are not a sum of output. You are not a task to complete. But because you are something the universe wanted and put here even if you’ll never understand why. Somewhere in the cosmos your existence makes a difference, even if it’s not the way others existences do.

as a night owl with an aversion to made up rules and hustle culture, i truly hate to admit this but maybe the elders chewed with their daily routine. getting their day started early, drinking coffee or tea, going shopping and running errands before noon, with a little nap as a sweet treat… cause now i have time to lollygag without rushing myself and frying my nervous system. is this…slow intentional living? like, life isn’t meant to be rushed? wow

if ever someone tries to convince you that there is only one path to success just remind yourself that miuccia prada earned a PhD in political science then became a mime then a member of the italian communist party then a women’s rights activist then became one of the world’s most iconic designers then opened an art gallery and is now the ninth richest woman in the world

Ladies make your own money and instantly your self esteem and standards will increase.

I can't put into words the high and immediate self-esteem elevation that comes from knowing that you are financial free, intellectually capacitated through higher education, and building a top-tier reputation. It gives you something that your nervous system can't argue against: proof that your competency and capabilities have real impact in your life and the world around you. Understanding that you have options and agency will make your self-concept evolve much more than any form of affirmations or visualizations will, and as result, everything else begins to fall into place because desperation, inferiority complexes, and other forms of mental roadblocks become automatically lifted.

Don't let a person's weird behavior turn you into a person with weird behavior.

Human relationships are not transactional but they are reciprocal, which I think many of you with your ‘i don’t owe anyone anything’ shtick are too happy to forget