When you’re growing up in abusive environment there’s such a strong feeling of “not belonging here”, “not being a part of anything” and feeling like you’re not supposed to be among humans at all, and only wishing that someone would come already and take you home. To another planet, where there’s people like you, where you wouldn’t be a burden or nuisance, where you wouldn’t feel guilty for just being, for existing as you are. It feels all wrong, being in a place where you’re so despised, as if it would be better if you didn’t exist at all. We all just want to go to our real home.

put oil in your hair, use that expensive lipstick you’ve been saving up for special occasions, take a hot shower with a bunch of candles, smother yourself in lovely smelling lotion, play your favorite game, go see a movie with your favorite people, or stay in today and do nothing.  Do whatever it takes for you to feel nice today, okay? You deserve it. 

Do me a favor okay? Stop trying to go back to who you were before. Before you were raped, before you got sick before an eating disorder took over your life. stop trying to be who you were five, ten, twenty years ago. Before the mental illness took over, before he died, back before your parents split or you lost your best friend.

You are NOT the same person as before. You never will be again. Give up the idolization of “before” and be who you are now. Be the you AFTER.

Thank you

no post on tumblr has ever hit me more than this whoa

It almost made me cry and there’s barely anything written

Fruity vs. Chocolatey

🍑🍌🍓🍍🍫🍫🍫

Fruity

BLEND:

½ cup frozen pineapple

½ cup frozen peaches

½ cup frozen strawberries

½ banana

½ cup almond milk

1 scoop Vanilla Protein powder (optional)

Chocolatey 🍫

BLEND:

½ cup ice

1 frozen banana

½ cup almond milk

1 scoop Chocolate protein powder

this is so easy, so delicious and so healthy! would highly highly recommend. 

falafel pitta salad with ranch dressing

ingredients: 

5 falafels 

1 wholewheat pitta 

1 head of romaine 

½ avocado

1 spring onion

¼ cucumber

handful rocket

tablespoon vegan mayo 

1 tsp fresh dill

1 tsp fresh chives

1 tsp onion powder

1 tsp garlic powder

½ tbsp apple cider vinegar

step 1: cook your falafel and pitta to packet instructions

step 2: chop your romaine, avo, spring onion and cucumber and toss together in a bowl, then sprinkle with your rocket (or arugula if ur american). 

step 3: in a small bowl combine ur vegan mayo, dill, chives, apple cider vinegar, onion powder and garlic powder. add water to make a runnier consistency. 

step 4: top ur salad with ur falafel and pitta and dressing and delve the heck in.

If this inspires you pass it on!🤔♻️📲

What’s so bad about periods

At first I was like “no don’t reblog it’ll weird people out” then I was like “oh right that’s the point”

STOP INCLUDING CRAMPS THAT MAKE YOU PASS OUT IN THESE LISTS AS IF THEY WERE NORMAL

THEY ARE NOT

IF YOUR CRAMPS ARE THIS BAD AND YOU’RE NOT A TEENAGER, SEE A DOCTOR

I REPEAT: THEY ARE NOT NORMAL. YOU COULD ACTUALLY BE ILL

YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO PASS OUT FROM YOUR PERIOD CRAMPS

I actually passed out at the start of my period a couple of times and three years ago I found out I have polycystic ovaries, but yknow. What’s so bad about periods.

Hey menstruating friends!

Sharing because I never found any information about it online, but I used to get cramps so bad I would vomit and nearly passed out a couple times. They didn’t hit every month, just sporadically, almost always in day 2, and they’d ramp up for a couple hours then for about half an hour I’d be in the bathroom on the floor - then I’d vomit and feel fine. Exhausted but fine.

I knew it wasn’t endometriosis or polycystic ovaries or anything else I could find.

Then I described it to a fantastic gynecologist just by coincidence and she said “oh, yeah that’s caused by clots.”

I have never found any information about this online even after finding out what it was, so here you go! If you sound like me, it might be clots. In my case, a copper iud actually solved things and made my cramps so much less severe. It might not work for you, but copper iuds are pretty harmless, less harmful than hormonal contraception, cheaper, and nearly as effective. I don’t know if it would work for anyone else, copper iuds are known for making cramps worse (they cause minor inflammation), but it sure as hell worked for me.

I'mma say this one time…

You can be full of love and light and still have bad days.

This needs to be said more than one time

convincing yourself that you’ll start loving yourself when you do X, achieve X, change X is unfair, and not love at all. you deserve your own full compassion and understanding right now, no matter your body, accomplishments, environment or circumstances

Water is healthy! - but it isn’t a full meal. 

Fruit is good for you! - but it’s not enough if that’s all you eat today. 

Cake is not a health food! - but it’s tasty and it’s more than okay to enjoy it every once in a while. 

Healthy eating is important! - but healthy means balanced, not restrictive. 

Lizzo at the 2019 VMAs

be patient, good things are coming your way :)

im just out here trying to eat fruit and stay moisturized and drink water and recover from childhood trauma and protect my vibes, man