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May the month of May

Feel like a bandage to our wounds.

A dating journey

What about yours? @Letstalk.mentalhealth (edited)

How to end a relationship?

Last time, how did your relationship end? Mine, in the pandemic, we set up a video call for it, hoping it woud be 6 and 7. It turned out as 3 since he was too carried with work to show up. (edited)

True color or one color?

Anger inspires change in behaviors. Anger is ok as long as it does no harm/doesn't lead to destruction I guess.

Dark Romance

do you have any book recommendations of dark romance?

How can we tell if we fall for the person or the feeling of love?

1. Take a step back and evaluate your feelings. Try to differentiate between your affection for the individual man or woman in question, and evaluate if you would still love them without being in a relationship with them. 2. Ask yourself if you really know this person well. If you don't know this… (edited) read more

Self-soothing vs. Distracting

Look into our hand

To me, my mom and all other moms ♥️ Happy Mother's day 🌷 "I have a friend who is an artist. Before he left Vietnam forty years ago, his mother held his hand and told him, “Whenever you miss me, look into your hand, and you will see me immediately.” How penetrating these simple, sincere words!… (edited) read more

Keep up our hope/dream/standards?

Expectation is about others. Standard, us. ☔🌧️🌂⛈️ (edited)

Comfort seekers

Thinking to make a book readers community. Who's in!?

3 objects of love

“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.” ― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

Attachment style state

Just a reminder we could be any of those up to the bond/situation.

Trauma-informed thoughts

Not just PTSD but all mental disorders it may apply to. Hopefully we find inappropriate reactions/behaviors, rooted in traumatic events, of us or others, less annoying or more tolerant than before.

Abandonment wound

To anxious/ambivalent hearts. Feel youuu. (edited)

Happiness comes in cycles. It will find you again

A reminder for you and for me :)

There's a connection, there's a miracle

Happy healthy search 🌷 To you and to me.

Platonic friendship

How many platonic friends had you found in life?

Ego vs. Soul voice

1. EGO = the conglomeration of beliefs about who you need to be to be safe, loved, & OKAY. We live in human form, which has relative consequences (pain/pleasure), & we therefore need to learn how to get our human needs met. >> How to understand ourselves as something bigger than our mind & body?… read more

Difficult topics or hard conversations

How calming and beautiful to deal with it in safety. (edited)

In case we are at the corner (edited)

Commitment to what matters more than commitment to comfort

A reminder for me 🌷💦

Lullaby

I wish us well until then.

What do you want for your life now?

Purpose. Conviction. Emotional moments & support. Transformation. Therapeutic presence. (edited)

What a life to chase ☀️

A bad day has ending & a good day has beginning

To everyone and to me

Hypersensitivity

How important is curiosity/a learning mindset to us?

"Look for people who are always seeking more self-awareness, people who are curious about life (and you). It's the people who think they already know all they need to know about themselves, life, and YOU that stagnate in relationships and stop growing." Mine, extremely important. A… read more