Critter-litter - I'm Just Here

Peep of my graduation back in May + a new friend i got a week after

Peeps to the little guy I found while I took my dog out

+ the mushroom growing in

my one skill is expertly manipulating the shape of the eggs I’m cooking so that they fit perfectly onto my toast every time

So fashionable

Jellycat of the Day | 11th May 2024

↳ Comfy Coat Mouse

"Snuggled up to scurry about."

My time at the Cal Poly 3-day summer transfer program : Thu 25 - Sat 27

Animal crossing theme ~ 🍃

Food options I had

New beanie baby acquired ft: Cheezer + Squeaker

Peep of the figurines at the Boba shop my group and I went to

Nice morning breakfast ~

candles  (by color) ✨🔮

✧ black: to banish bad energies, protection, to remove bad energy of yourself

✧ white: divination, harmony, purification, in honor to a spirit of someone long gone, strengthen the soul

✧ pink: love, friendship, emotions

✧ silver: moon and all its qualities, intuition and femininity

✧ red: courage, sensuality, strenght, the physical

✧ blue: intuition, serenity, health, interiorization, good against fear

✧ orange: energy, joy, thanksgiving, solar forces, encouraging, creativity

✧ gray: represents old age and the past

✧ golden: sun and all its qualities, action and masculinity

✧ green: fertility, good luck, cleaning, prosperity, rejuvenation and physical invigoration

✧ yellow: confidence, joy, learning, to bring order, reasoning

✧ brown: stability, good for outdoor rituals made for mother earth

✧ purple: power, wisdom, spirituality, to banish unwanted energies

just crying over how romantic Freddie & Jim were nbd

i see a lot of ya’ll self-depreciating over how much you cry and like…generally speaking, crying is a very healthy process. it’s an important means of 

expressing & processing strong emotions

relieving stress

experiencing catharsis 

moving on to a recovery period

this mindset that people just need to train themselves out of crying…that really worries me. bc the alternative is to repress those feelings instead of expressing them…and from firsthand experience i can tell you it is very much not worth doing that. i’ve been there, i’ve done it, i’ve bought into that mindset. i thought it would make me stronger and less vulnerable. instead i fell so out of touch with myself, it took years of therapy for me to learn to identify my own emotions again. i literally forgot how to tell when i’m upset or sad, bc my body had been trained out of expressing it. that’s an extreme scenario but it’s not uncommon, and if you spend too much time criticizing yourself over your own emotions, it can creep up on you.

i like to think we all know how harmful it is to tell children to just “stop crying, dammit.” turns out, the same is true for adults.

 just. please change the mindset that being visibly upset is somehow shameful. if you find yourself crying a lot, that probably means something in your external and internal experiences needs to change: you don’t deserve to feel angry, frustrated, frightened, sad, or upset so frequently that it distresses you. those are only supposed to be sometime emotions. 

but telling yourself to just. stop crying, or to stop feeling what you’re feeling? that’s harmful, and it doesn’t work. no one controls their emotions out of sheer will–at best we shut them down, and then pay heavily for it later. if we want our minds to feel better, we need to give them assistance, not threats. threatening or bullying our bodies and minds to behave the way we want them to will always backfire.