Hey. It’s super valid to have big feelings about boundaries your loved ones put up. It’s super valid if you feel hurt or caught off guard by an unexpected change.
But please don’t take this out on the other person.
Them putting up boundaries is something they’re doing because they want to keep you in their life. Boundaries help build healthy and fulfilling relationships. It isn’t a personal attack at you.
It’s okay if you need to ask for some reassurance, or something like that. But please don’t guilt them or make them responsible for your feelings.
bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”
Imagine poor Rory trying to deal with Eight
2024 : Getting carried away by the latest fad :: 2025 : Getting carried away by the latest fae
I started watching Ducktales
What if the negative consequence is people being slightly upset with me
biggest mindfuck is the fact that it can be so so difficult to tell the difference between when it's time for "do it bored/scared/stupid but by jove just do it" and when it's time for "if it sucks hit the bricks"
little miss awful body temperature regulation is taking his hoodie off again
ouppy…. ❤️💙