Accept Your Lot. Count Your Blessings. Be A Big Girl.

I've seen people fall apart before. They start to crack, and eventually they separate to tiny pieces. Then they crumple into nothing but a brokenness too fractured to mend. They wither away, until someone grows the courage to take their pieces.

As Audre Lorde once said, “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation….” Check out our master list of ideas, inspiration, tips and tidbits to help you find the kind of self-care that works for you. 

Do you ever feel sometimes like you don’t belong? Like everyone else is swimming downstream and you’re the only one trying to make it against the current?

Jocelyn Davies, A Fractured Light

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FUCK CAPITALISM! This didn’t cost tax payers anything. You don’t need to be a governing body with a police force to do decent things.

Charities/organisations to avoid:

PETA: They’d rather spend their money on publicity campaigns than on the animals in their care. PETA killed 73.8% of the animals in their care in 2015 (x)

FCKH8: Is a for-profit company that exploits oppressed groups for money. They’re also wildly uninformed, and spread misogyny, cissexism and bi/panphobia, as well as stealing their posts/designs (x)

Autism Speaks: They spend most of their money on researching a way to eliminate autism, heighten the stigma against autism and don’t have a single autistic person on their board (x)

Please support other, better charities, and feel free to add any others you can think of to this.

You define you.

Aimee Carter, Goddess Interrupted

They ask him why he prefers to live in fantasy worlds. They ask her why she keeps wasting time playing games that wouldn’t really matter in the future. They ask her what she finds so appealing about unrealistic endings. They ask him what he finds so special about the poetry...