There Is No Timestamp On Trauma. There Isn’t A Formula That You Can Insert Yourself Into To Get From

“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.” Faith is the water that flows between the shores of uncertainty.

#voltaire #faith #strength #motivation #believe #empathy #vulnerability #uncertainty #lgbtq #pittsburgh #writer #psychologystudent #counselor #therapist #teacher #personaltrainer #lifecoach #menswork

7 Rules of Life

1. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.

2. What others think of you is none of your business.

3. Time heals almost everything; give it time.

4. Don`t compare your life to others`, and don`t judge them. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

5. Stop thinking too much; it`s alright not to know the answers. They will come to you when you least expect it.

6. No-one is in charge of your happiness, except you.

7. Smile. You don`t own all the problems in the world.

Source: Whisper of the heart.

People who identify as LGBTQIA+ don’t really play ourselves growing up. Instead, we act out personas that fit some sort of mold of who we wish we were or what kind of version of ourselves is the most pleasing to others. This is why visability and respect towards others is so important.

#growingupgay #queer #gayman #personaltrainer #psychology #mentalhealth #pittsburgh #therapist #actor #strength

THE POETS AND THE SINGERS AND THE AUTHORS WRITE ABOUT ROMANTIC LOVE WHEN IT ENDS. BUT NOBODY TELLS YOU HOW TO GET OVER A FRIEND. (x)

oscar wilde / antoine de saint-exupéry, the little prince / the social network (2010), dir. david fincher / @jspark3000 (x) / ocean vuong, thanksgiving 2006 / stephen king, the body / house of the dragon, 1x04 / @s4pphoiduser (x) / the fray, how to save a life / radiohead, life in a glasshouse / succession, 1x08 / @ritikajyala (x) / richard siken, the worm king’s lullaby / hozier (x) / hannibal, 3x04 / fredrik backman, us against you / maggie nelson, bluets

🌊 Sometimes, the waves of emotions crash harder than expected. Feeling deeply can be a blessing and a burden, all at once. It’s okay to embrace the highs and lows, to let the tears fall, and to cherish the moments of pure joy. Every emotion shapes our journey and makes us who we are. 💙

#FeelingDeeply #EmbraceYourEmotions #HighsAndLows #EmotionalJourney #HeartfeltMoments #purejoy #strength #echoesfrombehindthemask #johnschesslerjr #pittsburgh #writing #psychology #selfrealization #feeltoodeeply #journey #siempreamor

GOD I wish the minimum wage was a living wage.

I'm not flipping burgers, I'm cleaning litterboxes and doing basic vet care like checking weights, administering medicine, bathing, using IVs, keeping records, making lists, doing photography, and way way more. But the point is even if I was just cleaning litterboxes... I love the work. I wish I could pay rent. Shouldn't I be able to clean litterboxes and feed cats who were rescued from the streets and do that fulfilling wonderful work without wondering where I'm going to live?

Shouldn't someone be able to flip burgers, make art, clean up trash, care for the oceans, teach your children, or rescue animals without being forced to choose between their job and their bills?

What if I don't WANT to climb the ladder and use my degree and search for high stress high pay jobs in order to live? What if I want the high stress job of seeing a kitten crashing below survivable temperature and bringing them back from the brink of death, knowing that I'm the only thing standing between this homeless, unwanted kitten and an early grave?

Shouldn't that be enough? Shouldn't I be able to afford food and rent by doing that?

I don't want to work at a vet office that can give me steady pay increases. I want to work here, with cats who have no owners, nursing them back to health and helping pick their forever home. I want the infrastructure to support me in doing that. I want the laws to say I can and have programs in place to make it so my shelter CAN support me. I want rent to reflect wages. I want wages to reflect rent.

I want to help the world and be able to survive doing it. I want to thrive doing it. I want that for everyone.

The concept of ‘Show, Don’t Tell’ is a writing technique to convey drama to the readers or viewers of a book or movie. This is a scene from The Greatest Showman and in it, PT Barnum the kid, is singing A Million Dreams. If you look at the picture, I’m the right side, people are working in an office and on the left, there’s a cemetery. Without using words, the showrunners have painted a picture of what millions of us do from generation to generation.

Each of us have dreams and goals in this life and whether or not we recognize it, time moves fast and before you know it, 60 years of your life has passed. Those hopes, dreams and aspirations and the time to accomplish them are pretty much gone. The bottom line is this: if you have goals, act on them NOW. You may think you have enough time but the time is going by at an exceptional pace and before you know it, it’ll be gone and all those dreams and goals go up in smoke and disappear.

Procrastination can be something that can hurt us while we’re waiting for things to happen OR you can take life by the balls and make it happen. If you do the latter, you’ll be able to see those million dreams come to fruition.

#amilliondreams #thegreatestshowman #hughjackman #goals #goalsetting #showdonttell #forcedperspective #actor #writer #podcastersofinstagram #procrastination #grablifebytheballs #personaltrainer #development #dramaticinterpretation #pittsburgh #lgbtq #pride #perspective

And you may ask yourself, well...how did we get here?

With Handy-Dandy Visual Aids.

And well, here we are.