Most suicidal people do not want to die, they simply cannot live with the pain anymore. Do not underestimate your ability to help someone.
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Look how far you’ve come
It’s important to remember that we got through the most difficult times in our past. We’re still here. It’s so empowering to recount the difficult paths we’ve been forced to take.
Reoccurring dream
The four of us sat in the living room listening carefully. My mum and dad were sitting on the couch and my sister was on a tall stool, her eyes fixed on the floor.
Grounding exercise
For me, feeling grounded is being connected to my ‘true’ self and being fully engaged in the present moment.
Selective amnesia
Isn’t that interesting? The past is just a story we tell ourselves.
Being a “flâneur” in France
“The flâneur observer.. whose aim is to derive the eternal from the transitory and to see the the poetic in the historic. A person who walks the city in order to experience it, discovering it as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world ‘picturesque.”
10 things to let go
We hold on to so many things that cause us unnecessary pain, stress, and suffering.
It’s okay not to be okay
There is simply no way of having a meaningful career, or a loving relationship, or just being a regular human without feeling some level of negative emotions. If we hide from them now, there will always be a new opportunity for them to come back again. Facing difficult emotions is a fundamental part of healing.
Understanding thyself(ves)
I imagine emotional triggers like waves crashing over me in a rough ocean. I’m swimming in a beach, somewhere with warm water and white sand. The water is just deep enough for my feet to reach the bottom. I float like a buoy, in rhythm with the water.
You are a different person to everyone you meet
Isn’t it strange that the person you are to yourself is different to what everyone else thinks of you are?
Art Therapy with Kimberly 