Let your bad thoughts be bad thoughts and your bad feelings be bad feelings. Let "I feel so worthless right now" turn into "I want to do something that'll make me feel better" instead of "the fact that I feel worthless must mean that I am". There is so much power in actively refusing to tie negativity to the way you see yourself, without ignoring it altogether.
we’re gonna be ok btw
you don’t talk too much. you aren’t too loud. you aren’t too needy. you aren’t too sensitive. you aren’t too this, or that. you aren’t too much anything. you will never be too much: you are you, and you are allowed to take up space. you are allowed to exist however you choose.
@ ritualofheart
i am so fucking sincere about this.
Mind you business:
Focus on you:
Achieve your own personal goals:
Let others live their own life 🙏
If you do not spend time getting to know yourself, you will end up absorbing everyone else's random and conflicting ideas about you.
Knowing who you are on a very deep and intimate level is the best way to protect yourself from internalizing disempowering opinions from others.
One of the most profound messages I think you can learn as a people pleaser in recovery is that even if you police yourself every single moment as to not offend anyone and to be generally likable, some people will hate you and want you to be unhappy anyways simply because they can inflict harm and want to so you really might as well voice your opinions and live life loud and proud so you can attract people who will love you and understand you too