#filling your cup

[sunrisethoughts02]

How to tell when your cup is empty:

in the next few days, we'll be going through a series on filling your own cup in fulfilling and healthy ways, starting with journaling ideas and finally picking our own activities. but first -- how do we know when our cup is empty? it's a little different for every individual, but there's often a few things you can familiarize yourself with to understand in your own physical and emotional space.

-- what is your 'cup?' your cup is your emotional, energetic, and often physical energy. think of waking up well rested and energized for a new day! now compare that feeling to the sensation of coming home after work after a long day, complexly drained and exhausted. this is the feeling of an empty cup. you might also feel....

~ fatigue. this is the most common symptom! often when your cup is empty, you're drained by emotional and energetic events. you have very little energy to give to yourself and others, which is why self-care becomes much more difficult when we're working on empty (often this translates to the physical as well -- we crave sweet and salty things to help boost our adrenal glands and combat fatigue.) this also leads to irritability, because our energy is so drained we revert to internal and external negativity.

~ a felt weight. when my cup is empty or dangerously close, I can feel a heavy sensation centering in my chest; almost this huge emptiness. it's good to create mindfulness around these sensations, because it helps heighten awareness of warning signs.

~ worry and anxiety. you might feel as though you're being helplessly pulled in different directions, without the time or energy to finish anything. you're trying to pour from a cup you haven't replenished!

questions to ask yourself:

~ when do I often feel empty?

~ what activities drain my cup?

~ do any of my own habits help drain my cup?

~ how do I give my energy away and fill other people's cups?

~ how do I feel afterwards?

~ what's my usual habit when my cup is running low? how do I instinctually try to fix it?

~ do those habits serve me well?

in the upcoming weeks, we'll be discussing ways to fill our cups and tweak our individual habits to serve us better :)) have a lovely day, and tune in soon!

drop any questions in the askbox :))

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[kimbazee]

What to do in Uncertain Times

How are you feeling concerning what’s happening in the world right now? If you could settle on one emotion, to get to the root of all the other emotions you might be experiencing, is it fear? It seems to me, from listening to people over the past couple of weeks, that fear is very strong. Many of us are living in survival mode and in that state of fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. I am mostly…

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#chaos #Comfort #filling your cup #loving yourself #Self-Care

[thepeacefulgarden]

#kindness #self compassion #self care #be good to yourself too #you matter #fill your cup #self care is not selfish #self care is not an indulgence #mental health #you are enough #you are worthy #self love #self respect

[saintmachina]

#step right up and fill your cup with sapphic longing #hades #persephone #sapphic #poetry #writing #sapphic poetry #ancient greece #dark academia

[unpretty]

Wait wait what did your boss do with the sweet potato??? I'm trying to imagine how you'd eat a raw sweet potato, they are so solid. You could shave bits off I guess??? Did they microwave it?

he slowly sawed it in half with a plastic butter knife, put one half back in the lunchbox (presumably for tomorrow) and then microwaved the other half

#original #this isn't even getting into the reused mcdonald's promotional cup for the movie maid in manhattan #it wasn't a special cup or anything it was just a giant mcdonald's cup with the maid in manhattan poster on it #that movie came out in 2002 #he has an enormous stack of giant mcdonald's cups in his office that he fills with a mix of fanta and some kind of cheap fruit punch #the butter knife may also have been from mcdonald's. i don't know and i don't want to know. #zero waste icon i guess but also that sounds like a great way to be full of microplastics #i need you to imagine the experience of eating your onigiri bento and your boss walks in #sets down his maid in manhattan mcdonald's cup full of fanta juice cocktail #reaches into his lunchbox with the name of a pharmaceutical company on it bc his wife got it as free swag #and pulls out a single whole raw sweet potato #i just had to sit there frantically googling when maid in manhattan came out trying not to make eye contact as he sawed through his potato #it took like ten minutes #i take my lunch at a different time now so we don't overlap

[martyrbat]

harley quinn (2000) #35

[ID: a sequence of three panels focusing on an abandoned cup of tea as drops of blood drip down into it. Harley Quinn's internal narration boxes reads, ‘I was a tomboy growing up. Tackle football with the local boys? You bet. Under a car hood changing a filter? Sure. Dances? No. Pedicures? Pass. Sewing? You have to be kidding.’ The panels expand, revealing Harley hunched over. She's shown in a profile view and from afar, her face hidden by shadow as her blonde hair is in a slightly overgrown pixie cut.

The blood continues to drip as her narration resumes, ‘I remember watching my mother. Sewing. Sitting in this old chair with a pile of clothes my dad or brother needed fixing. A rip, a tear, a patch. Just kept a smile on her face as that pile got higher and higher. I resented her so much. Sewing. I vowed I'd never learn.’ Her hand comes onto panel, revealing she's holding a needle as she yelps, ‘Ow!’ We finally see her bloodied face when she looks up at the suddenly ringing phone, it being revealed that she had to give herself sutures to close a large gash on her forehead. END ID]

#i think thats a cup of tea?? it looks like it with the sugar cubes? maybe. its not the point #love love love this little sequence and when her character and background is expanded on #i disagree with some of the choices (like her sleeping with & blackmailing the dean to get into a college) #but im a sucker for messy homelife and having that filled out more. her own personal resentment to her mother for doing the needlework #and being a housewife with a (forced?) smile and how it plays out to harley wanting to be so fiercely independent but how she #still struggles with it. from staying with the joker and that toxic relationship and the way its different than her mother's yet is #repeating the same cycle just with different mistakes #to her and pam and wanting and begging her to go with her. to being scared of being alone in a sense #she can manage fine. shes smart shes strong shes clever. but the abandonment issues run deep #how much is she aware of? how much does she resent herself for it? telling yourself as a little girl over and over you wont be like #your mother just to find out youre her if not worse? #again. repeating the cycle just with different mistakes. #also love when women are cringefailures and damp and pathetic looking #c: harley quinn (2000) | i: 35 #crypt's panels #harley quinn

[beenjen]

The Eclipse ended up being on Monday, which is my day off. The teachers posted that parents were welcome to join or it would be a free day to stay home. It didn’t work out to keep the kids home, I did make it up to the school for go time as the madness unfolded in the field. I’m so glad I made this a priority. My oldest nephews daughter also goes to school with our kids and it was just so much sweetness and soul soothe -

It was overcast and only snippets came through the clouds. We sat up blankets on the grass and had moonpies, the kiddos dogpiled me, it was epic 🌙

Fill your cup my beauties. So much love 🤘💚 xx

#fill your cup #core memory #eclipse #my kiddos

[marzipanandminutiae]

The Stanley cup thing wouldn't be bad, except it's just been released that they contain lead solder in them which can be exposed if the cup is damaged.

Oops. Well, that's definitely not good.

(Says the woman who wants to raise children in a Victorian house with, among other old toys, a dollhouse made by her great-great-grandfather in the 1920s)

(But I WILL take pains to make sure no lead goes into their mouths, which seems like a step above giving them Convey Drink Into Mouth vessels with a lead risk)

#...okay there might also need to be a 'no drinking from Mama's fancy tea set until your brain is sufficiently developed just in case' clause #BUT THOSE CUPS HAVE NO CHIPS OKAY. AND I USE THEM INFREQUENTLY #the only possible risk could be tannins in the tea causing leaching from the colored glazes #and that can be minimized by not filling the cups past the decoration line #ask #anon #lead #stanley cup #I'll properly seal the dollhouse and make it a Play With When Supervised toy #and also just tell them 'if you eat this paint you could die so don't'

[darthschabba]

" Give me Your cup...

And

I shall fill it with Tea."

#4444.4 #classic #Tea #Give #me #your #cup #cupp #and #i #shall #fill #it #with

[ladychlo]

#fill your own cup and let them fall in love with the overflow #my art #I just miss drawing 😭 #hlcreators #stylesedits #hljournal #tracksintheam #trackinghome #harry fanart

[brehaaorgana]

People joke about ADHD all the time, even swear up and down they totally think they also have it, but then if you ask for an accommodation, to please please please provide things in fucking writing, EXACTLY what they want and need, you will even work it out WITH them, like they promised they would do — repeatedly over and over, and then you don't get it people really will fucking be like:

I am using the incorrect bathroom (TM) to place my shelving and store my things. Homegirl literally removed various sundries and toiletries from a CLOSED CABINET and SHELF because she's interested in boundaries and accountability for my mess.

I said months ago I wanted to improve things for her comfort level and needed a written list of what precisely that fucking looked like in order to achieve it and not miss anything she deemed important. I explained how ADHD works, why I needed a written reference. Why I had to have it laid out, and if something needed changing we needed to write it all out. I would've made the list myself, but they said they would make it for the whole house to hold up their end of things. And, thinking this was a very reasonable adult solution to keeping the house in good shape, I said okay, come up with the list of expectations and what is needed and that way we can update how we handle chores. Awesome. I will do that to uphold my end.

No list ever gets made or drafted or anything despite my bringing it up, knowing we need to do it, but I DO get berated for failing to meet expectations and boundaries that were never fucking provided or delivered and include "don't store toiletries in this particular bathroom because I don't like it."

I can't believe I am a goddamn adult who gets treated like an idiot child for expecting adult communication instead of snide ass passive aggressive bullshit and basic respect for my things.

Because when I fucking get home, my shelving has been removed and a cabinet emptied of my things and placed in the "correct" bathroom.

🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

Oh shit she solved it, this doesn't look cluttered at all!

What a vast improvement to storing things in appropriate storage!

#my mortal sins include a laundry basket in the kitchen which is where the laundry room is #doing something INCOMPREHENSIBLE to work with my adhd like use the downstairs bathroom to get ready in the morning #instead of the upstairs one because that works best for me and keeps me moving in the morning #storing hobby supplies i was using in the living room in a milk crate basket to clear space at night easily #i left an oil painting to dry on a tabletop easel on MY coffee table and she tried to clean it up causing some of the paint to come off #i used to keep an empty up placed on the mat next to the cat water fountain to remind me to fill up often #not a mess of cups not half emptied cups. a dedicated refill cup tucked behind the fountain #when it kept getting removed i switched it up and placed the cup on top of the cat food bin to clearly indicate it was a cat item #no this is UNACCEPTABLE #also all my coats were removed from the coat rack i feel insane #coats GO ON THE COAT RACK #have you ever had someone actively sabotage your tools to manage your adhd bc its not fun lol #'i can understand why it feels shocking now' literally the most vile snide snake shit when you didnt communicate boundaries at all #its not communicating an expectation to gather up my personal belongings and dump them somewhere else and then text me about it during work #this is how you know shes only ever lived with blood relatives before this lol the entitlement #adhd blogging

[feralchaton]

#nourish yourself #we cannot pour from an empty cup #can't be siphoned from either #still...fill your cup! #healing is a process #ullie kaye

[natashasregrets]

i feel like “uptown funk” is to future historians what shakespeare’s “hamlet” is to us and the best part about this is that “uptown funk” makes an absolutely BANGER pair with “hamlet”

#i wrote this while in a pit of despair #“fill my cup #put some liquor in it” #that is literally so hamlet #it vibes so hard you gotta believe me #guess how much sleep i had before i wrote this #girls hit your hallelujah amiright #horatio ft the guards #this shit SLAPS im telling you. #hamlet: “i’m too hot!” horatio: “hot damn!” #theater #hamlet #uptown funk #mark ronson #bruno mars #shakespeare #IT WOULD BE ONE HELL OF A COLLAB #get it because both hamlet and uptown funk is world changing art #okay i’m done

[arachnicas]

Here's another prompt for all you Parental Miguel lovers who want to write something new:

Peter B. Parker has to deal with a family emergency that requires him to stay home for a couple of months. Not wanting Miles to miss out on some super important Spidey lessons, Peter begs tasks Miguel with filling in for him until he gets back, a request grudgingly accepted. Even after the Spot is contained and Jefferson lives, things are still tense between the two, and Miguel is certain that being the kid's mentor will be an absolute pain...and then he realizes that Miles is a damn good mentee and that he has a lot in common with him.

5+1 Things

Fives times, Miguel mentored Miles, and one time he seriously considers staying on as Miles's permanent mentor.

#across the spiderverse #atsv #miguel o'hara #miles morales #if parental miguel isn't your cup of tea just keep scrolling #miguel filling in for peter and actually enjoying being a mentor to miles #and upon further inspection he sees that the kid is extremely good at what he does and has the high potential to grow stronger #because seriously miles is canonically the strongest #he can create a sword with bioelectricity #peter eventually comes back and miguel has a serious conversation with him on passing on the status of mentor to him #maybe they settle on co-mentoring #two spider-dads lol

[sweetpapercroissant]

actually sam’s the one that sunk his claws in dean. but y’all aren’t ready for that conversation.

#it’s ok tho #i’ll wait #neither of them are really actually as violently possessive of each other as fandom likes to frame them (and with good reason it’s !!!!) #or more accurately even though they may feel that way they don’t/wouldn’t act on it #but especially dean is framed as this crazy jealous bf who will chain sam to his dungeon to keep him from leaving #which is fine if that’s your cup of tea. but canon dean wouldn’t do that #he’d try to guilt trip him maybe maybe even ask him to stay but that would only go on for so long #before he’d give up and let him go. it’s what he does every time #obviously not when sam’s dying but when he wants to leave #and i don’t think canon sam would either #BUT. but but but. #something something about dean’s loyalties changing from john to sam #it’s kinda there in s1 but s2. god. #i also don’t think sam did it consciously like some evil mastermind #but i think some corner of his mind knew he wanted that. dean being sort of unquestionably loyal to him #see also: ‘you can’t just fill that hole with whoever you want’ #supernatural #sam and dean #dean winchester #.txt

[healthyselflovetips]

The little joys that fill my cup ☕📖🚶‍♂️🌞🏖️ What are yours? Share your joys in the comment section. 👇

#intentional living #healthy self love tips #self love #self care #self care tips #self love tips #self growth #mental wellbeing #personal development #self love intentions #self love journey #self improvement #fill your cup first #you can't pour from an empty cup #wellbeing #healthy habits #wellness #health and wellness #healthylifestyle #selfcare