pingkeujin:

just a quick reminder to content creators: don’t be discouraged by other people’s works. your creative process is completely different from someone else’s, which means you will yield different results from others. we all have our own styles which will be redefined as we create more things. always remember that the work you see is the result of the creative process. and the person behind it may have had years of practise. 

keep creating the things you want in the style you enjoy. when you put in hard work, people will naturally see the time you spent to create something. and when you’re going through a creative slump, let yourself ride through it. don’t force yourself to create something because you have to. create stuff because you want to and enjoy doing so. 

narnia:

healing is not an overnight process. wounds will reopen, wounds will close, but always allow yourself to feel what you feel. it’s okay.

sheabutterbitch:

moving away from the ‘success is the best revenge’ ideology as I am realizing that loving myself through my failures is the true way to prove everyone wrong

lmaonade:

rude messages on anon mean absolutely nothing. you’re hiding yourself because deep down you know it’s wrong and you’re ashamed of what you’re saying. hostile words mean nothing when you cover yourself. they carry no weight.

semitics:

I honestly feel like re-traumatizing yourself isn’t coping it’s self harm and normalizing this as coping is not only maladaptive but harmful in that it makes people, no less minors, think re-traumatizing themselves is a good way to cope and then “I do x horrible thing” can be excused by the words “to cope” afterwards

sugarcoatoflove:

yknow the minute i learned that i needed to stop venting every toxic negative gross thought i had online was the day i really began to heal

when your only feedback is likes and reads you really do create an echo chamber that feeds you back your own thoughts

athenadark:

robotplant:

cleromancy:

depressionresource:

If you struggle with anxiety, overwhelm, or just plain feeling like a failure, I have a mantra for you that’s been really helping me out lately:

Just show up.

I used to skip class because the whole thing was so overwhelming: I had to get dressed in something clean even though I never had the energy to do laundry, walk to school, sit in class for up to three hours, plus pay attention, take notes, and participate in discussion. In reality, I was being a perfectionist, and life would have been a lot easier for me if I had Just Shown Up. By staying home because of my depression and anxiety, I wasn’t giving myself the chance to do any of that. I was such a perfectionist that being a “bad” or average student was unthinkable, so I stopped being a student at all.

If you’re having trouble getting something done, Just Show Up. You don’t have to be employee of the month. You don’t have to be valedictorian. Just Show Up.

ime it also helps to be like “you dont have to stay the whole time, you just have to go” bc most of the time once youre there it’s fine. a lot of things are like that, like… you dont have to finish the dishes, just start them. a lot of the time once you start a task it’s easier to finish than to stop, especially if you can trick yourself like “after five more minutes if i still feel bad i’ll go home” or “after washing two more dishes i can stop for today”

even if you don’t finish the task, you started it, and by completing part of it you lessened your future workload and ALSO taught your brain that things may not be as daunting as they seem

This is wisdom! Peace!

you know what years of therapy taught me - Redefine success

so what if no one else gets how the things you define as successes are victories because you have to

so you got to work - success

you used public transport - success

you went to the supermarket instead of ordering online and didn’t just buy things you dind’t want because you got scared - MASSIVE success

Redefine success, your body moved the goal posts, there is no shame in acknwoledging that