Keeping Myself Together

Adding to this,

YOU ALSO CANNOT HATE YOURSELF INTO A BETTER PERSON

i repeat

YOU CANNOT HATE YOURSELF INTO BECOMING A BETTER PERSON.

REMEMBER THIS.

what im learning is that you cannot avoid your way into a life you enjoy

Nkondi figures are a Congolese tradition that resolves societal struggles. A figure, treated like any other member of the society with its own personality & living space, has a nail driven into it by the local spiritual expert/diviner in order to produce enough energy (or pain/sensation) to free the spirit from the figure for a time. This is done after relevant matter (things like dirt from a grave site, herbs with protective qualities, or blood) is placed into the compartment typically found in the figure's chest. Through this process, the figure's spirit engages with the unseen realm & ideally resolves the issue of interest. On the figure can be seen the village's history over the years in the form of sharp objects that have accumulated. In this image the Madonna & child has been treated as an Nkondi figure.

does anyone know what the first step of unlearning shame is. please say it’s substance abuse

Maskfly by A. Shipwright

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As the ground right under me crumbles as if it wasn't there.

It's too much, my heart's crushed, i'm not alive.

I don't know who to call, alone.

I won't die.

My life has succumbed to hatred and death, alone

in the snow.

Ruth Awad, from “Let me be a lamb in a world that wants my lion”

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yeah no i’m completely normal about this ofc i am