Mt St Helens eruption 1980
BALLERINA (2023) dir. Lee Chung-hyeon
Kill Bill (2003)
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River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves in My Own Private Idaho (1991) dir. Gus Van Sant
Lady of the Flowers (1895) by Odilon Redon
Since I'm therapist-posting recently:
Legitimately self-compassion is the biggest mental health life hack of all time. I'm NOT talking about self-esteem. You do NOT have to like yourself one bit. You don't have to believe that you're a good person who deserves good things. You just have to believe that you're a person who deserves the things all people deserve.
You can't get from "I'm the Worst" to "I'm a worthy and lovable person" without passing through "I'm just a regular fuckup like everybody else."
Try it on. If you're really addicted to being mean to yourself, you can start by framing it as I'm Not Special. Embrace being a regular fuckup like everybody else.
βThe man who lies ill in bed sometimes discovers that what he is ill from is usually his office, his business or his society and that through them he has lost all circumspection with regard to himself: he acquires this wisdom from the leisure to which his illness has compelled him.β
β Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 289
"How is that I come to find my cousin in this nest of adders, ser?"
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