Three simple rules: honesty, respect, and clarity. 🖤 If your feelings change, say it. If your effort changes, own it. But never make someone question their worth because you were too afraid to be honest. Real connections don’t need games. They need truth. #SelfRespect #Boundaries #KnowYourWorth #TheQuietMind #InnerPeace

Hypervigilance in relationships often shows up as needing to know why someone's tone changed, right away, immediately, because delay used to mean the bad outcome had more time to arrive before you could prepare for it.

A lot of people with CPTSD develop an internal habit of pre-loading apologies before anything has even gone wrong, just in case. That's not weakness, it's a system that learned being first to apologize usually shortened how bad a situation got.

Hypervigilance in relationships often shows up as needing to know why someone's tone changed, right away, immediately, because delay used to mean the bad outcome had more time to arrive before you could prepare for it.

Social anxiety so bad i wonder if I'm welcome at places i was invited to.

Wo You'll feel like you want to die but you won't.

You see me after a long time and first thing you do is to point out something about my appearance. "Why are you so thin" "Why is your face rough" Don't ragebait me if not I'll rageee!!

Allow nau😂 Iwo yoo ko eko laipe 😂

I choose myself more and more each day. That's why my conversations with everybody else getting shorter.

I think very highly of myself, not out of ego but because of growth. I knew exactly what it took for me to get here and become me.

always be kind towards fellow humans regardless

I just be knowing stuff, feeling stuff and I’m usually always right.

Make your character so good, that a blind man can see your kindness and a deaf man can hear your good words. #kindness #goodcharacter #innerbeauty #quoteoftheday #goodvibes

Someone could be more successful than you and still envy you because your character carries more weight than their status.

l avoid confusion in my life by accepting people for who they are. I observe what they say, how they act, and I position them in their appropriate place in my life (or out of it). Sometimes it hurts, but frolicking in fantasy land will hurt even more.

CPTSD can mean realizing that the reason you work so hard to be lovable is because someone who was supposed to love you unconditionally made that love conditional. You twisted yourself into impossible shapes, trying to become enough for one person. And when it still didn’t work, you decided that the problem must have been you. It was never you. It was never, ever you.

Hypervigilance and intuition get treated as the same thing, but intuition is usually quiet and specific, while hypervigilance is loud and generalized, flagging almost everything as potentially significant. Learning to tell the two apart is a slow, deliberate skill, not something that clicks overnight.

“MY 8-YEAR-OLD TALKS TO AI MORE THAN ME" 
My 8-year-old son talks to AI more than he talks to me. I counted last week, out of curiosity. It wasn't close. He asks questions about dinosaurs, about why the sky changes color, about things he used to save up all day to ask me at dinner. Now the answer arrives before the question finishes leaving his mouth. I used to think that made me lucky fewer interruptions, more peace. Then I noticed what was missing from the exchange: