“It Was An Act Of Self-preservation — However Misguided It Was”.

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“There is only one way and that is your way. There is only one salvation and that is your salvation. Why are you looking for help? Do you believe help will come from outside? What is to come will be created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.”

— Carl Jung

Shrinking the Inner Critic in Complex PTSD - Pete Walker (x)

Most anti phone advice is so inane and regurgitated to me but one thing I’ve been thinking about for days is “social media is okay, but the real danger comes in when you think your phone should be your go to during your limited pockets of leisure” like that’s literally the truest thing ever

False Memories: Trauma and Liberation by AURORA LEVINS MORALES

[image ID: When individuals take on such projects of recovery we often find it far more challenging than we may have expected. Herman writes, "Denial makes them feel crazy, but facing the full reality seems beyond what any human can bear." The heart of the challenge is to assimilate the terrible, the unbearable, transforming in into something that can be integrated; something that can nourish us and leave us with a vision of the world, of ourselves, of humanity, that is bigger than the horror.

What is so dreadful is that to transform the traumatic we must re-enter it fully, and allow the full weight of grief to pass through our hearts. It is not possible to digest atrocity without tasting it first, without assessing on our tongues the full bitterness of it. Ours is a society that does not do grief well or easily, and what is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. But mourning is painful and we resist giving way to it, distract ourselves with put-on toughness out of pride.]

from Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity

チリンの鈴 - ringing bell (1978)

virginia woolf's 1931 new years resolutions : "to have none. not to be tied. to be free & kindly with myself. sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. to go out, yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. as for clothes, i think to buy good ones."