My Own Space

Acknowledge your emotions, then allow yourself to heal. You owe yourself that.

I’m doing this right now and its working????

biting into a lemon also works

The face of a hero

You cannot go back in time and change what happened. You cannot rewrite that chapter of your story. But if you can acknowledge that you were in the wrong and you wouldn't do whatever you did back then again, then you learned what you needed to learn from what happened - and that means this mistake doesn't have to define your present and your future.

someday when you’re at peace, you’ll be so glad you didn’t give up

[Image description: a digital drawing of a very fuzzy moth on a green background. The wings are a lighter green and darker red, the body is white with darker red stripes, and the antennae are light orange and fuzzy. The text says “Hey, no bad vibes needed. You are competent, you are capable, you are a bit of a badass.” And there’s a watermark next to the head of the moth that says The Latest Kate.]

[Image description: a digital drawing of a red panda with yellow, pink, purple, and grey stripes on a pale purple background. There’s dark purple text next to the panda that says It’s okay to not be okay right now. And a watermark in the bottom left corner that says The Latest Kate.]

[Image description: a brown guinea pig with a tan and white spot on her back. In the first picture she’s staring up at the camera, and in the second image she’s sniffing the camera so that all you can see is her nose, mouth, and whiskers]

[Image description: a digital drawing of a road stretching off into the distance followed by electrical lines. On the right side of the road grow purple flowers and some trees. On the left side of the road is a patch of yellow flowers and lots of grass. In the distance is a patch of mountains and there are purple clouds dotting the sky.]

Meanwhile, no person ever: “You should think about giving up your insulin/antiretrovirals/beta blockers/anti-rejection drugs/prosthetic legs/daily multivitamin, because using those your whole life is bad for some reason”

Oh no, they do that too.

I have a kidney transplant. A woman once told me she didn’t believe in organ transplants and that people should just die when they’re meant to. 

Sounds like a great set-up for a murder

People who are fully healthy, fit and neurotypical seem to think they are that way because they’re doing something right that the rest of us haven’t thought of, and not just because they got lucky

[Image description: a green tree frog chilling in water. It’s staring at the camera with lots of bubbles around its feet]

You are trying, and that’s enough

*makes subtle tweaks to my gender settings*

“You can’t heal what you don’t let yourself feel.”

[Image description: a digital drawing of a white stag standing on the edge of a large rock in the distance. The stag’s horns are getting zapped by lightning. The sky is dark and stormy.]