I was overthinking and listening to music while doing the dishes when it happend. But ive been there before, it had a nostalgia to it, and it had a sort of "flow" to it that i could navigate as if i knew the place like the back of my hand.

Were getting closer to where were trying to go.

I am still *technically* an atheist because i personally dont believe in "gods", i work with spirits and i commune with them

Release whats not working, try coming back to it later

Not everything you just learned about right now, is something you should talk about right now

Gossip is unregulated information sharing, primarily used by women

Are most people living life as real as reality gets?

We dont have to suffer for our art, but we cant abandon the parts of ourselves that have.

All aspects of myself are restorable if I take a trip to visit them and acknowledge what theyve tried to do to keep me from harm

Dont do anything to make cishet men comfortable ever

Dont analyze or intelectualize grief. Feel it.

Every shadow has a purpose

Spirits associated with death may help guide ppl through their journey into the shadow, beckoning all that needs to "die" within them. They can also be an ally in ancestral healing.

People have different experiences with any given spirit, because spirits are people too; my relationship with one person is going to be different than my relationship with a second person, and a third person is going to have a different relationship with the second person than i do.

Humans, spirits, deities, goddesses, and demons are not confined to boxes that you try to put them in.

BeING kind to yourself is not the same thing as *making an effort* to be kind to yourself. "Being" kind to yourself implies a constant state thats easy to forget, while "making an effort" to be kind to yourself is an action.

Lighten up; having a sense of humor about something adds an intellectual factor; it shows cleverness and shows the capacity for seeing different perspectives. It also helps you detach from things, while also encouraging other people to be lighter, to speak lighter, and to react lighter to conflict.

My identity does not need to be consumable