The waiting room chairs at my therapists are terrible. However... This skirt is the best $1.50 I've spent lately. 🥰 True vintage find from the D.A.V. thrift shop, which is quite possibly my favorite place to thrift outside of my town. . I tried to use that old recovery trick of "fake it til you make it" when I dressed today. Sometimes I get wrapped up in just living through all the moments, I forget to check in with myself. You know, how the insides feel. Today's therapy session brought it all back into focus, and completely checked in. More mindful, so to speak. It occurred to me how many HUGE milestones I've silently celebrated recently. 9/14/17 was the day I overdosed and nearly died. It's been two years, and even though my clean date wasn't until months later, 12/5/17, I still feel like it is important to recognize that event as a catalyst for what was to come next. As I sat recounting the whole experience, how much I could remember, and how it felt when I did remember it. So many emotions that I really wasn't prepared to deal with. I didn't deal with them entirely today either. I started, and that's what all this is about. That forward momentum to the better parts of life. . All I've ever wanted was to be happy in life. I've always been that person looking for some answer to how to make everyone around me happy. Well, take away every one, who am I left with? Me. no matter where I go, there I am. I guess if no one else is around to focus that energy on, then, I get to focus on caring for myself. Focus on giving myself all I ever wanted...a happy life. . #recovery #soberissexy #mentalhealthawareness #waitingroomselfie #truevintage #woolskirt #plaidskirt #lovedthisoutfit #ootd #ineverdoootd #odaat #wedorecover #grateful #focusedenergy #fakeittillyoumakeit #insidesmatchtheoutsides #mindfulness #recoverywarrior #serenity #wisdom #milestones #lifeonlifesterms #selfdevelopment #howfarivecome #quietobservations #celebratingthegood #vintagestyle #pinupgirl #therapywaitingroom #emdrtherapy https://www.instagram.com/p/B3GIM9iFI5S/?igshid=1bfl28is7azcg
