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Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

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the glittering sapphire (lasaia agesilas) | borboletasoestesc on ig

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Uminonakamichi Seaside Park, Japan by snowshoe hare*

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nowadays we've reached a somewhat neutral, at times even quite positive relationship. we're grown-ups, and there's open communication, I've set boundaries - you respect them.

but there was once this emptiness. and it remains.

there are still these deep and jagged wounds in my soul, this hole in my chest, left there by your absence, your cold walls.

there has been and there will be this constant, pathetic, humiliating longing for others that are better at your job than you, but can never be that for me.

#personal #daddy issues amirite haha

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Emily Dickinson, in a letter to Louise and Frances Norcross, written c. October 1871

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instead of asking 'is this normal?' try asking a meaningful question:

is this helpful?

is this pleasurable?

is this kind?

is this joyful?

just because something is 'normal' doesn't mean it is good, and just because something is good, doesn't mean it is 'normal'

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Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle Vincent van Gogh, Garden at Arles (1888)

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Painting from photographs I took during my travel in Scotland

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The Knight of the Flowers (1894)

— by Georges Rochegrosse

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sometimes we are childish. sometimes we do something our 16 year old self would have done, think something our 11 year old self would have thought, cry like our 7 year old self would have cried. why is this so embarrassing? why does it make us feel such shame? when you’re 20, 30, 40, are you not also every age you’ve been before? do all of your previous incarnations not still live inside of you?

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having siblings is all fun and games until they turn into the parent that tore your heart apart and start growing into a person with values that don't align with yours at all

#personal

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From Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s ‘The Cat with Julie Manet’, 1887

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Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Marina Tsvetaeva featured in Selected Letters

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A Mourning dove gets cozy, and settles in, to experience the sunset.

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#<3