cardinalroots

[cardinalroots]

The Grinch 💖 #grinch #cardinalroots #christmas #holidays #christmasmovies #myboys https://www.instagram.com/p/BrzMrAZg0TR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=bfb9q59e9zil

[cardinalroots]

Um. 🎤 dropped. ✩・✩・✩・✩ #PNWwife #DogMom #Warrior #ItGetsBetter #CardinalRoots #NotAlone #Awareness #EndTheStigma #BreaktheSilence #BeWeird #EndtheAwkward #Brave #Strong #YouCanToo #TheJourneyChoseMe #hope #letitbe #justbreathe #bpdisbeautiful #theStruggleisReal #morethanmybpd #borderline #dbtskills #UpperLeftLiving #LivingwithHope #itdoesnthavetobeperfect #tenderisthenewtough #NoShame #advocate @cardinalroots ✩・✩・✩・✩ https://www.instagram.com/p/Bro8Cq9ghZT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=sac2snnd87k5

[cardinalroots]

My kids are cuter than yours. I love these monsters so much I can’t even stand it sometimes. #cardinalroots #bigdogsofinstagram #boxersofinstagram #muttsofinstagram #george #griffin #pnwlife #upperleftcorner #colife #oregon #dogsofinstagram #thejourneychoseme #morethanbpd #mykidshavepaws #merryholidays https://www.instagram.com/p/BrozG0Vg0hl/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=79qtfbc3fah3

[cardinalroots]

I am moderately...really grateful for facebook memories. Apparently I needed to be reminded of how far I’ve come in the past two years. ✩・✩・✩・✩ #PNWwife #DogMom #Warrior #ItGetsBetter #CardinalRoots #NotAlone #Awareness #EndTheStigma #BreaktheSilence #BeWeird #EndtheAwkward #Brave #Strong #YouCanToo #TheJourneyChoseMe #hope #letitbe #justbreathe #bpdisbeautiful #theStruggleisReal #morethanmybpd #borderline #dbtskills #UpperLeftLiving #LivingwithHope #itdoesnthavetobeperfect #tenderisthenewtough #NoShame #advocate @cardinalroots ✩・✩・✩・✩ “If I wasn’t crazy, I won’t be great.” Tyson Fury https://www.instagram.com/p/BrmPAu0A4XV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1pep0l7ebg67j

[cardinalroots]

Therapy is hard, change is hard, making choices is hard. Let’s face it - LIFE is HARD. it is not impossible to ask for help, it is not impossible to change, it is not impossible to make a choice. When it comes to asking for help, I did it. When it came to making a change, I fought it but am working on it. When it came to making a choice, I chose the one that I’m going to have to work for - not because I’m a gluten for punishment, because I want to be the best me for myself, my family, my babies (🐶🐶) and my friends. You guys, change is freakin’ hard. Things have been changing at 🏡 because I have a hard time with certain things. I asked for help. I am starting to re-wire the neurotransmitters in my brain. Do you have any idea how hard that is???? To create new pathways in your mind and try to break the old ones? However, with the changes, I realized that my partner still (and always) has our best interests at heart so we can have a better future - the one we are working are butts off to have (I think I might have not always believed this or forgot it for some reason 🤦🏼‍♀️ I dunno - that’s where therapy comes in). I have to have help managing a few things because we realized without him taking on that extra responsibility we were heading down a path we’ve been on before that just didn’t really work. He stepped up. I didn’t fight the change, instead I’m embracing it. (Are we adulting or something now?!? 😉🤔) I think what I’m trying to say is: changes of any kind are hard, you have to be the one to decide if you are worth it (YOU ARE). You have to be your own parent, but might have to have someone(s) co-parenting with you along the way - a spouse, a therapist, your best friend, your 👩🏼‍⚕️. It is ok to ask for help. It is ok to change. It is ok to make a choice that might scare you. You matter. You can do this. You aren’t alone. ✩・✩・✩・✩ #selfcare #PNWwife #DogMom #Warrior #ItGetsBetter #CardinalRoots #NotAlone #Awareness #EndTheStigma #BreaktheSilence #BeWeird #EndtheAwkward #Brave #Strong #Capable #YouCanToo #TheJourneyChoseMe #hope #letitbe #justbreathe #bpdisbeautiful #theStruggleisReal #morethanmybpd #borderline #dbtskills #UpperLeftLiving https://www.instagram.com/p/BriuGZuAcmX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=heswpa5jen67

[cardinalroots]

🖤 Non-appearance related compliments, use them: 1. You make people feel good about themselves. 2. You're such a good listener. 3. You're really going to make a difference in the world someday. 4. I'm so glad I met you. 5. I love how passionate you are about ________. 6. I never get tired of being around you. 7. You make people feel important. 8. You're so understanding. 9. I feel like I can tell you anything. 10. You're a strong person. 11. You're so good at being creative. 12. You can lead people without being bossy. 13. Your happiness is contagious. 14. You have really opened my eyes about _______. 15. Our conversations always make me feel better. 16. I can always count on you to be there for me. 17. It's amazing how far out of your way you go to help people. 18. You're a selfless person. 19. You are always so much fun to be around. 20. You can make people laugh on their worst days. 21. You're so good at making people feel welcome. 22. I couldn't imagine my life without you. #lifeisgood #dontbeshallow 😘 #sharethis https://www.instagram.com/p/BrZbDNKAjT1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dgapullgcp7r

[cardinalroots]

It occurred to Pooh and Piglet that they hadn't heard from Eeyore for several days, so they put on their hats and coats and trotted across the Hundred Acre Wood to Eeyore's stick house. Inside the house was Eeyore. "Hello Eeyore," said Pooh. "Hello Pooh. Hello Piglet," said Eeyore, in a Glum Sounding Voice. "We just thought we'd check in on you," said Piglet, "because we hadn't heard from you, and so we wanted to know if you were okay." Eeyore was silent for a moment. "Am I okay?" he asked, eventually. "Well, I don't know, to be honest. Are any of us really okay? That's what I ask myself. All I can tell you, Pooh and Piglet, is that right now I feel really rather Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. Which is why I haven't bothered you. Because you wouldn't want to waste your time hanging out with someone who is Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All, would you now." Pooh looked and Piglet, and Piglet looked at Pooh, and they both sat down, one on either side of Eeyore in his stick house. Eeyore looked at them in surprise. "What are you doing?" "We're sitting here with you," said Pooh, "because we are your friends. And true friends don't care if someone is feeling Sad, or Alone, or Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. True friends are there for you anyway. And so here we are." "Oh," said Eeyore. "Oh." And the three of them sat there in silence, and while Pooh and Piglet said nothing at all; somehow, almost imperceptibly, Eeyore started to feel a very tiny little bit better. Because Pooh and Piglet were There. No more; no less. ✩・✩・✩・✩ #selfcare #PNWwife #DogMom #Warrior #ItGetsBetter #CardinalRoots #NotAlone #Awareness #EndTheStigma #BreaktheSilence #BeWeird #EndtheAwkward #Brave #Strong #Capable #YouCanToo #TheJourneyChoseMe #hope #letitbe #justbreathe #bpdisbeautiful #theStruggleisReal #morethanmybpd #borderline #dbtskills #UpperLeftLiving #LivingwithHope #NoShame #advocate @cardinalroots https://www.instagram.com/p/BrXROsZg9eF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hk6mnemohf42

[cardinalroots]

Seriously though, have you? #SundayFail #chicfila #eatmorechicken🐄 https://www.instagram.com/p/BrXQpZHgAGL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=oxbn33lv6v5g

[cardinalroots]

It’s been said that mental illness is a state of mind, something you can just “get over” if you want to and care enough about your well being. The brain is the most complex organ in the body, providing us with some of the most complex forms of illness. Why is it still ok to treat an illness of the brain differently than the heart or lungs? You do things to make both better - you eat healthy foods, you exercise, you get enough sleep - but when one of them gets an illness you don’t tell someone to “get over it”...you help them find treatment and care. You tell them it’s ok to taken medicine if they need it to survive. You don’t tell someone with asthma for example to just breathe better. You don’t tell someone with an arrhythmia to just have a better heartbeat. You surely don’t tell the parents of the child who had a heart defect to just will their child to get better and that they should just get better because it’s just a state of body. WHY are people still treating others like their illness is something they have control over, like they chose to have bipolar, to have borderline personality disorder, to have anxiety, etc? No one chooses these things - any of it, mind or body. STOP treating people like they should be ashamed for taking a medicine that helps them produce chemicals their body doesn’t make enough of. STOP treating people who go to therapy like it’s something that shows weakness. STOP. It is ok to get help. It is ok to seek treatment. It is ok to take a medicine that helps your body do what it can’t do on its own. It is ok to not be ok. ✩・✩・✩・✩ #selfcare #PNWwife #DogMom #Warrior #ItGetsBetter #CardinalRoots #NotAlone #Awareness #EndTheStigma #BreaktheSilence #BeWeird #EndtheAwkward #Brave #Strong #Capable #YouCanToo #TheJourneyChoseMe #hope #letitbe #justbreathe #bpdisbeautiful #theStruggleisReal #morethanmybpd #borderline #dbtskills #UpperLeftLiving #LivingwithHope #NoShame #advocate @cardinalroots ✩・✩・✩・✩ https://www.instagram.com/p/BrW6iAYAQaN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=londabiqt61z

[cardinalroots]

#Repost @safespacebpd ・・・ oh. That explains so much. ✩・✩・✩・✩ #selfcare #PNWwife #DogMom #Warrior #ItGetsBetter #CardinalRoots #NotAlone #Awareness #EndTheStigma #BreaktheSilence #BeWeird #EndtheAwkward #Brave #Strong #Capable #YouCanToo #TheJourneyChoseMe #hope #letitbe #justbreathe #bpdisbeautiful #theStruggleisReal #morethanmybpd #borderline #dbtskills #UpperLeftLiving #LivingwithHope #NoShame #advocate @cardinalroots ✩・✩・✩・✩ https://www.instagram.com/p/BrWtzkcgbLw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1anopvamnynir

[cardinalroots]

I am so grateful for everything I have today. I loved this list I read today..... Things to leave in 2018: •excuses •self doubt •toxic habits •overthinking •procrastination •negative self talk •swallowing your truth •living in your comfort zone •caring what other people think You truly will attract what you put out in to this world; mirror for mirror. Make it worth your energy.♥️ ✩・✩・✩・✩ #selfcare #PNWwife #DogMom #Warrior #ItGetsBetter #CardinalRoots #NotAlone #Awareness #EndTheStigma #BreaktheSilence #BeWeird #EndtheAwkward #Brave #Strong #Capable #YouCanToo #TheJourneyChoseMe #hope #letitbe #justbreathe #bpdisbeautiful #theStruggleisReal #morethanmybpd #borderline #dbtskills #UpperLeftLiving #LivingwithHope #NoShame #advocate @cardinalroots ✩・✩・✩・✩ (at Smith Rock State Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrRoo0Kj_Xo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=p9eijobosadv

[cardinalroots]

My whole world in one photo. #dogsofinstagram #boxersofinstagram #muttsofinstagram #furmom #pnwlife #upperleftliving #pnwbabe #hikerbabes ##23of100 #smithrockstatepark #hikerbabesorg100 #hikingpnw #myboys #myworld #george #griffin #bebrave #endthestigma #selfcare #selfcareSunday #bpd #beweird #brave #strong #itgetsbetter https://www.instagram.com/p/BrMSgaWAB3U/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hublyh0bi999

[cardinalroots]

Please use the Be My Eyes app. It’s free and you get to help a person. The calls I’ve answered are short and simple. Tonight someone just needed me to read the numbers on their blood pressure machine. If you aren’t sure how to help or think it’s an inconvenience- it’s actually not, it is really simple. Download the app. Answer when called upon if you can. Be someone’s eyes. Help them when they ask for it. #bemyeyes #blindness #blind #help #share https://www.instagram.com/p/BrMETFPgVIF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=soflg841keq3

[cardinalroots]

[cardinalroots]

My baby loves the fireplace. Georgie boy is a happy boy right here. ・・・ #selfcare #PNWwife #DogMom #Warrior #ItGetsBetter #CardinalRoots #NotAlone #Awareness #EndTheStigma #BreaktheSilence #BeWeird #EndtheAwkward #Brave #Strong #Capable #YouCanToo #TheJourneyChoseMe #hope #letitbe #justbreathe #bpdisbeautiful #theStruggleisReal #morethanmybpd #borderline #dbtskills #UpperLeftLiving #LivingwithHope #advocate @cardinalroots @scskier79 @granmarachel #George https://www.instagram.com/p/BrA5RU4gsli/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mmyha2ms1gtz

[cardinalroots]

Save your fucks for fucks sake. Really though. ・・・ #selfcare #PNWwife #DogMom #Warrior #ItGetsBetter #CardinalRoots #NotAlone #Awareness #EndTheStigma #BreaktheSilence #BeWeird #EndtheAwkward #Brave #Strong #Capable #YouCanToo #TheJourneyChoseMe #hope #letitbe #justbreathe #bpdisbeautiful #theStruggleisReal #morethanmybpd #borderline #dbtskills #UpperLeftLiving #LivingwithHope #advocate @cardinalroots @fuckologyofficial #fuckology #fuckologyofficial https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq_DYjbgnEd/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=61b94yas8lti

[cardinalroots]

I don’t drink much (or ever really), but I’m down for this tree...at least it isn’t killing a real out. It’s ♻️ #Scrooge #stopkillingtrees #whyarepeoplestillkillingtreesforthisday #christmascomplaining #cardinalroots #notafanofholidays #itsapagenholiday https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq9CzMfAFxK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1bef214sg37zz