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When you do wake up one day and see all the reasons to keep living, don’t look back on the dark days with guilt. Don’t punish yourself for having depression despite all you may or may not have in your life. Don’t require a justification from yourself for something you can’t control. Don’t let others require a justification from you either. Just live and breathe and seek healing the best you can.

Nik Wiles, “An Honest Letter on the Inspiration to Keep Living” (via twloha)

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Change the way in which you react to the circumstances around you, even though the circumstances themselves may have not changed. This is such a marvellous evolution of your energy. Development of your mindset. Mastering of your being.

Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin (via thepowerwithin)

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As long as you wake up in the morning, you are still in the game. As long as you’re breathing, you are still a fighter. Nothing can stop you from moving forward. Absolutely nothing.

Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin (via thepowerwithin)

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I remember giving my heart to someone who doesn’t want it, it all comes back every time we see each other on the same old street.

ma.c.a // First Times (via vomitingwords)

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The deepest pain I ever felt was denying my own feelings to make everyone else comfortable.

Nicole Lyons (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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Be strong. You can get passed inthis. The first step, however, is to believe that you can.

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The women whom I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because their shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong, and they handled it. They handled it a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes.

Elizabeth Gilbert (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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Human connection is most definitely essential and a part of our life’s experience. With this it brings so many more emotions, feelings, and experiences that we may not otherwise feel.

Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin (via thepowerwithin)

This is something I have been having so much trouble with lately. I crave human connection; I can freely say that i have dependency problems and it makes it hard for me to be alone. I have a hard time liking people and becoming friends with people, yet I crave intimacy and deep connection and love. I am a very emotional person and I feel things so deeply; without someone to make me feel things, I feel like I have no who cares about me. I’m having to learn to be alone and to feel isolated emotions

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This is what internal calm looks like to me

Where I'd rather be | ( by Fabio Zingg )

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I decided my life was worth holding onto. I was choosing to believe I mattered enough to do the work that had to follow, even if those upcoming years looked daunting, even if the waves around me were more terrifying than ever before—those scary things meant I had hope. Hope that the waves wouldn’t look daunting forever, hope that my swimming skills were just good enough I might not drown. Those scary things meant movement. I was taking healing into my own hands because I deserved it. It’s OK that I can’t remember, it’s OK that I’m unsure of how it all started. Because I do know how my healing started. It began with a decision to stay. A decision to believe, against the odds, that hope was real, and maybe the mere existence of hope is defiant.

Kendra Larsen, “What I Do Know” (via twloha)

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I don’t think the lack of feeling ‘fixed’ after attending therapy should cause me to consider myself as weak or forever broken. Therapy isn’t about that, it doesn’t leave you feeling brand new. It gives you the tools to better understand yourself, to call your struggles out by name and take away their power. Before therapy, I tried to avoid anything that would cause me turmoil. But now I know that I can survive it. I am strong, and asking for help doesn’t change that, it emboldens me.

Courtney Bunting, “The Reality of Therapy” (via twloha)

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Rise to higher altitudes in your life. As you do this, you may feel the air around you getting thinner. It may become harder to breathe. The view below you may become increasingly daunting. But yet, you will be able to see more as you reach greater heights. The sun, stars, and sky will be that much closer. Everything would be that much more peaceful.

Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin (via thepowerwithin)

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Compassion arises when you recognize that all are suffering from the same sickness of the mind, some more acutely than others.

Eckhart Tolle (via the-red-lotus-blog)

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Early morning thoughts

Recently I have been going through some emotional wringers. It has taught me some valuable lessons and while I’ve made mistakes, I’ve realized I am better than what I thought I was and that I deserve love for who I am. I am a good person and deserving of good things. I’ve always felt like my mental health would take everything good away from me, and I have had times when I blame my disorder. But I take for granted the beautiful things it has given me. I am an advocate for bipolar disorder and ADHD, I am a more empathetic and compassionate person because of this, and I am stronger because of this. Life has hurt me, but I’ve known true love and passion and I am thankful for this.

1. I am grateful for my family and friends

2. I am grateful for my mental stability due to treatment that is responsive

3. I am grateful for musical artists and passionate authors who create works of art to keep me going and loving life