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Even if you are at your lowest right now and you feel like you are failing at every aspect of your life. Please remember that there is something that you're doing right now that your inner child finds amazing and always aspired to do. Seriously! Think through your day and I assure you there is something you did that your inner child would have thought was so cool. Something you they couldn't wait to do when they became an adult. You are never doing as bad as you think you are doing, you are still here, still able to create the life you want and deserve. And guess what? Still making your inner child proud if nothing else. If you ever feel that you can't go on, remember the spark of your inner child that is still within you, counting on you to make your/their dreams come true. Just relax, everything is falling into place.

- Erika, The Clumsy Witch

I have been dealing with so much back pain recently and I'm tired of being brave about it

For those concerned in the notes, I am working with health professionals, but the holidays kinda mess up that whole schedule

A new year can sometimes feel like a lot of pressure to make big things happen! But you don’t have to make big plans or resolutions if you don’t want to! Live your life the way you want, and make changes at a pace and style that works for you! 💛

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As we enter a new year, take a moment and consider the many reasons it’s good to be a thinking, feeling human being living on such a special planet.

Bats can hear shapes. Plants can eat light. Bees can dance maps. We can hold all these ideas at once and feel both heavy and weightless with the absurd beauty of it all.

you are good even when you are unemployed.

you are good even when you need to rely on others’ help.

you are good even when you are depressed.

you are good even when you are hurt.

you are good even when you are scared.

you are good even when you are overwhelmed.

you are good even when you are not tidy.

you are good even when you are confused.

you are good even when you have difficulty performing tasks.

you are good even when you feel like you’ll never measure up to being an adult.

symptoms are not morality.

@nutmegan17 on tiktoks eating tray hack

By keeping a tray full of no prepare necessary food, in the fridge it can be used to aid neurodivergent or fatigued people.

By putting food like, cheese and crackers, or whatever is a safe food for you personally on the tray, it can be taken easily to the couch or bed to be eaten from whenever you are hungry.

This prevents executive dysfunction or fatigue and any reason preventing you from eating. You need to care of yourself because everyone needs food to stay alive including you.

You deserve to eat even when on a bad brain day and are unable to prepare a meal for yourself.

If not having a full meal doesn't satisfy you, a snack may even give you the energy to make a full meal afterwards!

in this new year I want you to be alright. I hope you move out. I hope you have enough money to feel safe. I hope you abandon shame and forgive yourself. I hope you get enough sleep and some good news. I hope you laugh a lot and the heaviness of the world eases a bit. I wish you to be alright.

It’s okay to fall apart. It’s okay to want to give up. It’s okay to feel like you are back at square one. 

Healing is a messy process and it does not operate in a linear fashion. 

Please keep trying. You’ll get there.

*through gritted teeth* you are not a child taking a test with the purpose of getting the highest score, you are an adult trying new things and finding ways to enjoy your life, make mistakes, be a beginner, be mediocre, be where you need to be, be unlikeable, just. be.

it's not "am I good enough to do it?", it's "do I like it enough to be bad at it?"

it's okay if you get confused easily. it's okay if you forget things easily. it's okay if you lose track during conversation easily. it's okay if you have to ask for clarification often. it's okay if you struggle to parse information or sensory unit. you're not "playing dumb" or "doing it on purpose". it's okay to be disabled, some people just refuse to be accommodating.

wishing that life were "what it used to be" nullifies your ability to craft right now into something worth being nostalgic over one day

allow yourself time to mourn but do not let despair make you negligent

that task you’ve been putting off? that chore you’ve been procrastinating? whatever responsibility it is that you’ve been ignoring, try this: set a timer and dedicate 15 minutes to doing it, and when the timer stops, so do you. you may not complete it in that time frame, and that’s totally okay, because now you’ve made some progress. and guess what? a small victory is still a win.

Ouch

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self isolating to cope is great until you look up one day and years have passed and you realise no one knew you when you were 18 or 19 or 20 or 21 and now they never will

the great thing about un-isolating yourself is that you can literally start making friends whenever you want, and most people will continue to do so through the rest of their lives. you will meet new people at 28 and 37 and 43 and 56 and 61 and 72 and 85 and 94 who will love you.

you will spend the rest of your life meeting people who will love you.

I'm gonna give you guys a really easy way to meet people. Go somewhere, a Cafe or a bar or even a music shop. If you see someone else that is alone but doesn't look particularly closed off with headphones and a book, draw a little doodle and just hand it to them and then go sit nearby and drink your drink or something. Ball is in their court, if they think being handed a drawing is weird they'll just look at you oddly and then go back to their business, if they are down to chat they'll comment and then you just have a conversation. I do this often because it's fun to give people silly little art and I've never had anyone not engage in a conversation from it, no matter their age, style, or whatever, and I have met some really cool people from it. Also now my doodles are hanging up on bar mirrors and Cafe pin boards and such and hopefully bringing more little fun to the world.

It doesn't have to be a drawing, but basically almost everyone wants to play or have fun or chat but we get so hung up on needing a reason to talk with people. Try starting a game of tic tac toe with someone, I promise you'll at least get a game and a chat out of it.

There's tons of ways to meet people and initiate conversations, but that one is really easy for shy or anxious people because if they talk to you, it was their choice so you know they are down to and you aren't bothering them.