#LearningtoLive

[selkyle24]

Caring for You Spouse After a Brain Injury

Often, the hardest part isn’t the brain injury itself, it’s everything after. 🤕💔 When your spouse suffers a brain injury, it can feel like you’re both learning how to live again, together and apart.

The recovery journey is messy and unpredictable, but just being there can make all the difference. Sometimes, it’s sitting in silence with them. Sometimes, it’s reminding them of their strength when they forget it. But remember to take breaks. Your well-being is part of their recovery too.

[deathssubbymoondust]

Caught Between Moments and Madness

Done with uni, and it’s finally sinking in. there’s this strange sensation, like a door closing behind me and another one barely cracked open in front. i’m happy, sure, but there’s this emptiness too—a hollow space that used to be filled with the certainty of what comes next. now it’s just this vast, open question, and i feel like i’m already lagging behind, like life’s this marathon and everyone else is a mile ahead. how do you just exist in the moment when the future feels like it’s rushing at you, full speed, and you’re not even sure you’ve got your shoes on the right feet?

i saw my partner again, finally, and there’s something so grounding in our connection. i love the duality of us—the way we can slip between the sheets..., but also just be together, two souls tangled up in something deeper. it’s like we’ve built this world where i can be my messy, chaotic self, and he still looks at me like i’m something worth holding onto. i love him so fiercely, it almost scares me. but sometimes my feelings get all tangled up in knots, and i don’t know what to do with them. i shut down, like a machine overheating, and my mind whispers maybe it’s easier to break it all apart. it’s not him, not really, just this weird, temporary numbness that washes over me when i’m overwhelmed.

and work. god, the whole thing with the sexual harassment... it’s like, do men even hear themselves? he apologized, sure, but then he had the audacity to deny it all happened, to put the blame on me for not saying ‘stop.’ as if it’s not basic decency to know you shouldn’t touch someone without their consent. fuck that. fuck you, seriously.

right now, i’m just here, my thoughts a whirlwind of contradictions. i feel like i’m standing on a tightrope, balancing between happy and sad, good and bad, and it’s exhausting. adulthood is this weird, endless maze, and sometimes it feels like there’s no exit.

i keep telling myself i need to learn how to savor the moment, to find joy in the here and now, but my mind is always spinning with a hundred different ‘what ifs.’ i need to find new things that light me up, need a routine to steady me, need to get better, healthier. but it’s all so overwhelming, this constant pressure to do more, be more. sometimes i just want to scream into the void because it’s like i want everything and nothing, all at once.

so maybe, for now, i’ll just try to be. to sit with myself and all this messy, complicated stuff that makes up who i am.

it’s my life, after all. just mine. and maybe that’s the most terrifying and liberating thing of all.

[positiverootslv]

I’m no longer learning to live with it, I’m living to learn from it.

M. Miller 1/2/2024

Photo credit: <a href="https://www.vecteezy.com/free-photos">Free Stock photos by Vecteezy</a>

[stochastique-blog]

I can do Better

Now is a beautiful opportunity. Yesterday, now was filled with opportunity, and tomorrow, now will present even more opportunities.

Now is all that there is. It’s OK to have goals, dreams, aspirations, and plans. But if you aren’t finding joy, growth, satisfaction, awareness, and release… then all of now’s moments will present overarching vibrations of overwhelm, disappointment, frustration, and general misalignment.

What’s happening right now for you? Look up from your phone look around the room that you’re in. There’s only one person there in control of how good you can feel right now. It’s you. In this moment find one thing that feels good. Doesn’t have to be poignant, it doesn’t have to be inspirational, heck, it can even be mediocre at best!

I’m looking around my room and finding joy in the phrase on my coffee mug because every time I see it it makes me smirk and laugh just a little bit. It could possibly be one of the most accurate statements about me. “I have the vocabulary of a well educated sailor.” See? Pretty simple when you tune your mind. The hardest part… The tuning!

What do you see that you can take satisfaction in right now?

#AbrahamHicks #NowIsDelicious #ThereIsOnlyNow #LiveInThePresent #MasterYourMindset #ChooseNow #LearningToLive #LivingAgain #CelebrateToday #Carpediem (at Greenwood Village, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnpGov5rwFj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thecpdiary]

The Virus the World thinks Has Gone

I once wrote a blog entitled ‘My life after Covid.’ A little premature perhaps, two and a half years in, I am ‘four walled,’ confined to my home, and confined within my mental and emotional disability, and the virus isn’t finished.

The virus the world thinks has gone, hasn’t gone. Not talking about and addressing something doesn’t means it’s gone, it just means they’re not talking about.

It is important the world learns its valuable lessons, through a global crisis, and act accordingly. The pandemic isn’t finished, and unless the world conforms to what it knows it is dealing with, this can come back to bite. In 2022, we are seeing cases in the UK increase again.

Aristotle, Greek philosopher, once said, “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” The light is accepting it happened and finding a way through that works for all of us, not just a select few.

Given some of the decisions and undertakings by Governments around the world, you would have thought it was finished, but the UK is recording new cases of Covid, therefore it would be prudent for us to live with more caution and continue to wear masks.

For more inspirational, life-changing blogs, please check out my site https://www.thecpdiary.com

[historiassimples]

Forgive

ENG

Something that really cost to me everyday is forgive, I'm admire people who in just seconds forgive the hurts that others did, for one simple reason: I don't allow myself to forgive quickly.

I don't know why my heart is so vulnerable, through small things I feel sad, desperate and hurt, this is terrible because constantly wounds that I thought they were healthy, actually are bleeding.

I don't like this feeling of resentment, although I don't change it and I recognize not letting go it continues to hurt me, for this I need to learn how forgive everyone, included myself.

[becomingthedreamversionofme]

Important

Yung_Pueblo ~ Twitter

[callmequeenkate]

Shorts + sweater = my favorite combo #lovinglife #learningtolive #shortsandsweater #thursday #yourlocalseattlelesbian

[becomingthedreamversionofme]

Try. Risk it. Reach out. You never know what magic might come from a single step forward. Failure doesn’t matter when you’re still moving toward something that matters.

[mrittunjoypaul]

To fulfill the dreams by waking up in the morning light👀 Gives the opportunity to debut❣️ Some dreams can be fulfilled and some cannot💔 So let's keep trying💪 You have to make it Yourself🙂 #selfcare #selfimprovement #dependenttome #learningtolive #growth #sunrise #pictureoftheday #mobilephotography #cellphonephotography #freelance #freelancing #freelancer #motivation #inspirational (at Kakran - Nolam Bridge) https://www.instagram.com/p/COmogGsnjfT/?igshid=12qmxuz8pxam

[becomingthedreamversionofme]

how do you handle it tho?

“Self-improvement never ends. Once you fix one problem, you discover another area that requires an upgrade. This continues until the day you die.”

— Ed Latimore

[whisperingwillowssds]

Daisy Doodle is out with her siblings investigating after breakfast! She's so much more alert and interested in her surroundings!! She crawled up into my bed last night and slept under the covers all night long. She needed some hugs 💜 #DaisyMae #seniorgreatdane #seniordogs #seniordogsofinstagram #seniordogsdoitbetter #whisperingwillowsseniordogsanctuary #whereloveiswhisperedtothelastbreath #rescuedandloved #learningtolive #healingwithlove #greatdane #exploring #seniordogrescue #retirementlife #gentlesoul #endanimalabuse (at Whispering Willows Senior Dog Sanctuary, Inc.)

[leahrecor]

Now is a beautiful opportunity. Yesterday, now was filled with opportunity, and tomorrow, now will present even more opportunities. Now is all that there is. It’s OK to have goals, dreams, aspirations, and plans. But if you aren’t finding joy, growth, satisfaction, awareness, and release… then all of now’s moments will present overarching vibrations of overwhelm, disappointment, frustration, and general misalignment. What’s happening right now for you? Look up from your phone look around the room that you’re in. There’s only one person there in control of how good you can feel right now. It’s you. In this moment find one thing that feels good. Doesn’t have to be poignant, it doesn’t have to be inspirational, heck, it can even be mediocre at best! I’m looking around my room and finding joy in the phrase on my coffee mug because every time I see it it makes me smirk and laugh just a little bit. It could possibly be one of the most accurate statements about me. “I have the vocabulary of a well educated sailor.” See? Pretty simple when you tune your mind. The hardest part… The tuning! What do you see that you can take satisfaction in right now? #AbrahamHicks #NowIsDelicious #ThereIsOnlyNow #LiveInThePresent #MasterYourMindset #ChooseNow #LearningToLive #LivingAgain #CelebrateToday #Carpediem (at Greenwood Village, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnpGov5rwFj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[llenori]

I need #myhappypills every day! 💊 #Thusdayvibes #Coronavirus has #proved that #everything #aroundus is so #temporary. Things #ourlives revolves around... #work, #gym, #malls, #movies, #society have #allgone for a toss as #weare #learningtolive #without them. It has #taught us that #intheend it's #yourown #homeandfamily that #keeps you #safe. #positivevibes #positiveenergy #HappyThursday!!💋 https://www.instagram.com/p/CFiZwzwM7cC/?igshid=1ai7azrkqulxi

[jesserazo]

Spending time with @simplyalchemy is all about creating memories that will last a lifetime. From the first one to the last I hope they are as breathtaking as these ones. . #teamrazo #shareyoursunshine #napastrong #napa #loveyourpeople #learningtolive #blessed #makingmemories #brotherfromanothermother #sisterfromanothermister #familyfun #lovethesegirls #lovetheseguys #swingaway https://www.instagram.com/p/CBcEvkPhJ85/?igshid=19bhgfimrzpye

[southernbelletn-blog1]