snow

[Text: This system has done wrong in the past but is working really hard on being better and unlearning things.]

[Text: This user is tired of dealing with the aftermath of trauma.]

wax your legs and/or armpits

paint your nails

draw where you want to hurt yourself

put moisturizer all over your body

ask someone to distract you

put makeup on 

pluck your eyebrows

run until you’re extremely out of breath

take a very hot or cold shower

go for a bike ride

hold ice 

break something

If you're a system in therapy, I'm proud of you. No matter how long recovery takes, or what healing looks like for you, taking the steps you need to with a specialist you can trust is always, always worth it.

For those of you whose trauma overwhelms them,

Who feel isolated from their own system due to the trauma,

Who feel that it's unfair that you hold the trauma whilst others in your system are unaware of it,

Who are working hard on healing,

Who want to heal but feel scared to lose this part of you,

Who want to heal but feel scared about how knowledge of the trauma would affect the rest of the system.

It's also for those of you who are angry at your system for not knowing about what you've been through, even if you know it's not their fault,

Who aren't ready to heal or those who feel like you're stuck with your trauma,

And every other trauma holder or type of trauma holder.