#progress and setbacks

[miraclesthroughmayhem]

Embracing Change: Resilience Amid Life's Transitions

Embracing Change: Resilience Amid Life’s Transitions Losing my mother has been a heartbreak like no other. It leaves me feeling as though the ground beneath me has shifted entirely. At the same time, my family and I have been confined to one level of our house during basement renovations. It’s been cramped, chaotic, and overwhelming. Now, as I see the basement taking shape, I’m caught in a mix…

[in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine]

Growth isn’t always constant. Relapses happen. It doesn’t erase all your success.

[bambiraptorx]

one of the fun things about 2003 stockman is that his character arc is a constant game of going "oh wow he's really reached a new low point here huh" and then he pulls out a shovel and proceeds to start digging

[blorb-el]

just posted a slightly belated series of 100-word drabbles for @kryptonite-week :) 1k exactly of various kryptonite fragments, mostly bonking clark in various ways through different continuities

[chipmunkweirdo]

I don’t want to be premature, but the fever’s finally been down for a while and I think I feel better.

I can’t think too clearly though, probably from the 6 solid days of panic and anxiety attacks on/off.

I’m a hypochondriac and it was impossible to tell what was caused by the virus and what was anxiety. 😭

Still in misery but praying I recover and can still DO ALL THE THINGS I LOVED BEFORE GETTING SICK!

I miss running, and drawing, and talking clearly.

[emahriel]

i just found my first digital artwork and had to share the progress... been drawing since I was a kid (like early 2000s), but I think most of my progress was done within the past 5 years.

— 2014 vs 2023!

[overwhelmedfernfrond]

Two rice cakes for supper is better than nothing </3 😭😭

[itsdiamondlove13]

6 month hair growth challenge long time no see.

[ink--theory]

cut it a little too close for comfort with like 25 mins to spare but I did it :]

now it's time for eat and then sleep 😴

[pepprs]

i had a scarily bad depression moment (if you catch my drift) at work on thursday during a meeting where the topic of conversation and the things ppl were saying were directly (and slightly intentionally?) contributing to my distress and im past that moment now but i feel so haunted by it. by the thoughts i was having and the fact that i had them and the fact that i was witnessed in that moment but they didn’t know how bad it was. and im also feeling vulnerable to being back in that place again

[heartshattering]

Very much hoping I don't mess up tonight :')

[alphalesbian]

Occured to me but moments ago Ive seriously not done a thing in my life I have not thought of at least ten times over

[ungiorno-nellavita]

Dreams Have No Deadline

Dreams don’t have deadlines because everyone moves at their own pace. Life happens—things get in the way, priorities shift, and sometimes, the path takes longer than expected. But what truly matters is that you keep going, no matter how long it takes. It’s easy to feel like you’re falling behind when you see others reaching their goals, but there’s no set timeline for success. What’s important…

[friendlyloner]

I had dinner with one of my oldest friends (24 years!) the other day. We only see each other a couple times a year, and sometimes have gone years without even that. We were catching up as you do and I was filling him in on one of the bigger self realizations I'd had in 2024 (masking - and my relationship with it) and he commented something along the lines of being impressed with how linear my progress with my mental health journey seemed to him. It was just as we were having to say goodbye at the train station and I remember having a jumbled mess of thoughts and emotions in the moment that never had a chance to sort themselves into a coherent whole before we parted ways.

Something caused that interaction to pop into my thoughts yesterday and I guess the time it had to percolate in the back of my head sorted my response out into the concise "it only looks that way because I keep going" and maybe it's just a pseudo deep shower thought but it hit me like a ton of bricks. Because that's it. You keep going. Healing, progress, whatever, it can be a lifelong endeavor if you let it, but in the best way.

Healing can be linear - if you keep going

So I'll keep going. I hope we all will.

[descriptionofaruby]

literally dont wanna get out of bed