For many trauma survivors, suicidal ideation isn't a desire to cease existing--it reflects a desire to escape a physical body or a social environment that make actual "living" impossible. It's paradoxical, but that desire to "die" is actually a desire to truly...
If you feel something calling you to dance, or write, or paint, or sing, please refuse to worry about whether you're good enough. Just do it.
I understand now that I'm not a mess, but a deeply feeling person in a messy world. I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often. I say, "for the same reason I laugh so often--because I'm paying attention."
You can be shattered and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece. But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong--but you...
The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one. We need to let go of the lie that it’s supposed to be.