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Honeycomb Ceramics

Fira Workshop on Etsy

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hello_dongwon

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Botanical Knives

Pocono Mountains Forge on Etsy

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Stop convincing yourself you’re wasting your life away. The time you’ve spent resting and healing was and is necessary. You’re not a waste of a person if you find yourself struggling right now. Healing, recovering, sitting with your pain is foundational. It’s not a waste. You are still whole.

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if you need this, i hope you see it: i have both of these printed out, laminated, and taped on my door with expo markers nearby, and i thought this idea would be helpful for a lot of people with alexithymia, autism, or anyone with difficulty identifying emotions.

(i’ve shared an image of each of these separately in the past, but here they are together, with the printout/lamination/markers idea.)

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UH WHAT

UH...... WHAT.........

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Web Weaving: Ritual, bond, culture, and intimacy in hair-braiding

from r/NoStupidQuestions / “SOMALIA. Somaliland. Hairdressing, Somaliland,” 1900 antique photo / Robin Wall Kimmerer, from “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants” / Hannah Lock, “Braid” / Siraad Dirshe, from “Respect our Roots: A Brief History of Our Braids” / Jeremy Rodney-Hall / Schuyler Peck, from “Self-Love Comes Over” / “Never Too Old For Mommy To Do My Hair” from Facebook (retrieved from Yahoo! Life) / Paola Klug, from “Trenzaré mi tristeza” (Eng. trans.: “I will braid my sadness”) / “Four generations of women braiding each other’s hair,” mural in Longmont, Colorado

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🍓🦇

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Witch Hats

Evercrumbly And Witch on Etsy

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Your purpose in life is not to love yourself but to love being yourself.

If you goal is to love yourself, then your focus is directed inward toward yourself, and you end up constantly watching yourself from the outside, disconnected, trying to summon the “correct” feelings towards yourself or fashion yourself into something you can approve of.

If your goal is to love being yourself, then your focus is directed outward towards life, on living and making decisions based on what brings you pleasure and fulfillment.

Be the subject, not the object. It doesn’t matter what you think of yourself. You are experiencing life. Life is not experiencing you.

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Please remember that almost everyone around you is traumatized. I didn’t understand this when I was younger. I wondered why people acted so strangely and irrationally. Maybe all children wonder this. The author Robert Anton Wilson said (paraphrasing), “We have never seen a completely sane adult human.” No one makes it out of this life alive. It’s not their fault. Mercy, kindness, forgiving — these are what makes one human. They are other names for love. People break in the strangest of ways.

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September’s haze.

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*forms an emotional bond with the cool stick I found on a hike*

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"One of the most prevalent obstacles in our ability to heal and self-actualise is when our productivity is tied to our worthiness."

I think the studyblr community especially needs to hear this. You don't have to be productive all the time, you need rest. Recovering from internalised capitalism means unpicking all the messages from family, friends, school and workplace that have reinforced the idea that you are a commodity, and that your worth is based on what you do. Your worth is inherent.

Source: therapywithlee