It takes for that attention. This is what it means to heal. I use to think it was about destroying the past when all the past wants is to be integrated into your present so that you can make it to your future. Together. As a whole.

It isn’t letting them lead. It’s giving them, finally, the attention and belonging that they crave so desperately. The only reason your old wounds keep “sabotaging” you is because you haven’t taken the time to include them. Think of them as a child, desperate for attention and willing to do whatever

Staying with those old parts. Especially the ones you think are the most pathetic. Those are the ones that need you the most. And it’s painful. It’s uncomfortable. Trust me, you can’t out run them. The only way for you to get to where you want is to bring them along. But what does that look like?

It might seem easier to destroy those parts of ourselves, it’s normal to want to cut them off of ourselves so we can be free of them. I know I want to. But no matter how hard I try, that doesn’t work. So then what does work?

because the world just keeps going, moving, and it feels too harsh. i want the whole world to stop. i want to just lay here on olive’s old couch spot and cry forever. but i can’t. i have to shower. eat. the tedium of daily life is relentless.

lol at the comment about the pisces moon bc justin vernon actually has a pisces moon