Self love Sunday! And also summary Sunday! And Shame Free Saturday! I haven’t slept yet, so it’s kind of Saturday and kind of Sunday, but I wanted to get these in because who knows if I still feel feel okay enough to Tumble when I wake.
I felt like it was appropriate to post all three of these in one post. Shame Free Saturday and Self Love Sunday are really similar ideas and it’ll all tie into my summary of this last week.
I will admit that I love my eyes. Rob describes them as “the most beautiful color” because he doesn’t think brown does them justice. But you can’t see the color very well in this picture. My eyes are almost always shadowed. They sink in a little and tend to look dark around them because they catch shadows around me. When I smile, the bottom lid smashes up, like “bags” under my eyes a little bit. It makes my almond eyes look small, too.
I love how my eyes look like this because this only happens when I smile a real, true, happy smile.
This past week has kinda sucked. I miss my badger more than usual. I’ve been sick. I’ve been overstimulated from having a lot of people around me. My stress levels are rising from being around people and my family. I binged two days in a row. I didn’t exercise for two out of the four days in the New Year, too.
On the Tumblr scene, there’s been drama in the community because terms are being used?! I’ve gotten really down about it all- the whole goal is to support holistic health which includes LOVE! Not just self love but for everybody. But some people have to be “against” things just because they aren’t “for” them and some people just haven’t figured out how to love yet.
I’ve spent the past day feeling poorly because all I ever wanted was to spread love and joy along with health, and create a space where all people were welcome without worrying about triggers and negativity, and then here I am treating myself like this and being negative myself… And there are people taking things I’ve supported whole-heartedly and making them into something negative, too.
But I’m still able to smile, a real true smile, with my lower eyelid all bunched up, because I have hope it’ll all be fine.
We will make a space on tumblr where all people of all shapes, sizes, backgrounds, genders, sexualities, and abilities are welcome with open arms. We will make it a place where mental health is as valued as physical health, where appearances are fun to play with but beauty is found in everybody…
