You can’t set anyone free if you don’t leave the cage

Me on my 31st birthday in my favorite sweatshirt and favorite glasses in my favorite place 🥰

If the news is dysregulating your nervous system, your first priority needs to be nervous system training. We are no good to the system or the world if we are dysregulated. They want us overwhelmed and exhausted - then we’re more compliant. So #heal your #nervoussystem first, the rest can follow.

Today’s art, inspired by all of the friends who are feeling overwhelmed right now and need to be remind to focus on what they can touch, to not lose hope, to keep taking one small step forward each day, and that it will be okay ❤️

#art #inspiration #digitalart #hope #arttherapy

Also just for the record I’m on day 61 of recovery and I feel SO 👏🏼 MUCH 👏🏼 BETTER 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Today, tomorrow, and the next four years 🤍 #art #hope

Have we all just forgotten that INTERSEX PEOPLE EXIST and make up almost 2% of the population - aka the same amount as red heads??? THERE ARE SCIENTIFICALLY AND BIOLOGICALLY MORE THAN TWO GENDERS.

Start your day with 60 seconds of deep breathing - in for four, hold for four, out for four, hold for four. Name five things you’re grateful for. Three small things you can do today to make you smile. We’re going to get through this, and we must take care of ourselves in the process ❤️

Living a more dynamic life - not following the traditional path, not excelling in just a single area, fighting to be your most authentic and true self - brings pain that the safe route does not. But remember, the people who fit in/ stay in boxes, while safe & comfortable, are often less fulfilled.

Mel Robbins: Your Life-Changing “LET THEM!” Tool for the New Year Podcast Episode · We Can Do Hard Things · 01/02/2025 · 1h 12m

Key takeaways:
- Focusing on things out of your control only creates stres
- The only things you CAN control are what you think, do, and how you regulate your emotions (not other people!!)
- The best way to love people? Stop trying to control them.
- Just LET THEM

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Actually do cry - in honor of today’s full moon, let it all out. Release it all, feel it all, move through it all 🌕✨

Start your day at home with yourself via a deep breath, a tiny check in with your body, and 3 things you’re feeling grateful for 🌼

Thank you!! x

Colorful abstract art painting of a woman in the moon’s glow, covered in loving, positive affirmations on the grass with flowers

Take what you need today ❤️

Daily non negotiables (especially on rocky mental health weeks):

✔️ Drink 8 glasses of water
✔️ Eat at least 3 times
✔️ Sleep at least 7 hours
✔️ Get outdoors for even just one minute
✔️ Personal hygiene (brush your teeth, wash your face, take a body shower if you can!)

Take care of your body & mind ❤️

Day 3 without smoking and let me tell you, sleeping through the night is WAY harder than I anticipated without taking THC before bed. Even more inspired to cut off this dependency 😓

my art keeps getting flagged as adult content :(

GOOD MORNING bluesky fam I hope everyone who sees this has the absolute most beautiful day so to start that off strong here's the first self portrait I ever painted after I came out and started the journey of learning to love and accept myself okay I LOVE YOU go crush it today I believe in you!!

sleep was hard :( but i did have a dream i was dating Ashlyn Harris at one point in between wake ups and that actually was alright

what a day. first day not smoking or drinking in five years. going to bed with a full heart and big hopes that I’ll sleep alright ❤️ goodnight #bluesky

Exactly!! Giving yourself the space to feel bored, be present, and sit in that.

And just after i sent that reply to you, i saw this notification pop up that I have a skip the line copy from the library of a book I must have put on hold at some point about dopamine balance!! 🤩 I’ll report back!

I have been thinking about implementing some sort of digital/ dopamine detox because yes this is too real and damn, i wanna be able to sit and read a library book i love without it making me feel anxious!!!

First, they came for the immigrants, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not an immigrant.

Then they came for the homeless, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not homeless.

Then they came for the...

Are we really going to sit back and just watch this?

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.

Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

I am committed to learning how to sit with the discomfort of my own feelings

without avoiding
without numbing
without running

to simply embrace the parts of me that hurt so deeply and say

“yes, I know. I see you. I love you. you are not alone”

thank you 🥹❤️

Update: I just finished my first night of #marijuanaanonymous meetings and I am filled with such immense gratitude. The humans in these spaces are so generous, supportive, kind, and understanding. I feel less alone, and more hopeful, than I have in weeks 🥹 #recovery

YES I always remind myself my multitasking is making me less productive and more anxious. Intentional is the way to go 💯

Tweet that says if your concern with trans women is that men might claim to self-ID as trans to gain access to women’s spaces and assault them, then your problem is actually with predatory men and not trans women.

All of this.

Someone in my recovery meeting just said that being a control freak quintessentially conflicts with being open minded and DANG that just challenged everything I thought I knew about myself 🤯