You don’t need to be busy. You don’t need to be stressed. Or anxious. You don’t need to prove yourself. Or justify your existence. You don’t need validation. Or affirmation. It’s ok to just be. You can be happy. You can be calm. You can be joyful. It’s ok to just be. You can play.ContinueContinue reading “It’s Ok To Just Be”
Tag Archives: Anxiety
Breaking Free
For the longest time, I was unfaithful. To boyfriends/friends/partners/lovers – but mainly, to myself. I used and abused my own body. And not even for pleasure, but for power. I measured my worth in my appearance, and valued myself through other people’s eyes. I would feel the seductive power of the male gaze, and immediatelyContinueContinue reading “Breaking Free”
Fear Of The Familiar
I can feel it now – it’s like a coldness around my heart. A dull sensation in the pit of my stomach. Intermittently interrupted by nervous flutters. There’s a sense of dread. Of heaviness. A resistance to moving, or doing, or being. I have never been formally diagnosed with anxiety or depression, so I neverContinueContinue reading “Fear Of The Familiar”
Learning To Accept Kindness From Others
What do you do when you finally step out of the darkness of self-loathing and depression, and the light of love of admiration is too bright? How do you look directly at the beauty of people’s words and gestures when you’ve spent years conditioning yourself to try to fix your broken self? How do youContinueContinue reading “Learning To Accept Kindness From Others”
Learning how to make (authentic) friends
I remember being a teenager and having this breakthrough realisation that if I was just really nice to everyone then they would have to like me and be my friend! Genius! I was obviously a lonely teenager, with very few friends. I didn’t know who I was, or who I wanted to be. I surroundedContinueContinue reading “Learning how to make (authentic) friends”
Siobhán Kangataran 