Michell C Clark

There is a special kind of power in being told you don't belong somewhere, and showing up anyway—

Not to prove them wrong, but because you were never performing for them in the first place.

The people who needed to hear you, HEARD YOU. and the ones who didn't understand still felt it.

HELL YEAH! Pro tip from a Puerto Rican, if you use the lighter blue we use to denote a more sovereign symbol, we’d love it!

love isn't a feeling you fall into—it's a choice you climb toward every time you see someone clearly, flaws and all, and still choose to stay.

reparenting yourself isn't about blaming your parents—it's about becoming the adult you needed when you were too small to speak up for yourself. it's learning to speak to yourself with the same kindness you'd show a scared child who's trying their best.

grief is proof of love.
anger is proof of care.
fatigue is proof of effort.

you are not broken—you are alive.

Your future self is going to thank you for not giving up.

Quote by Michell C Clark that reads: “Your fatigue is real. Your overwhelm is real. Your exhaustion is real. Don't feel guilty about needing breaks from a world that was never set up to protect your mental health in the first place.”

#Quote authored by: @michellcclark.bsky.social

I don’t wanna hear you talk about how you would handle pain that you’ve never experienced

I don't want wellness practices that teach me to be at peace with an inequitable world. I need practices that help me to stay sane while doing my part to fight against it. if it makes you compliant to injustice, it's not healing—it's sedation.

Without proper nuance, "self-care" rhetoric shifts blame for systemic problems onto individual people. You can't meditate your way out of medical debt. Positive thinking won't raise the minimum wage. Sometimes the most caring thing you can do is get angry at the right systems.

I'm tired of conversations about mental health that ignore the impact of surviving a world where healthcare can bankrupt you, wages can't cover rent, and climate change threatens your future. Individual solutions can't fix collective problems.

My therapist can't save me from capitalism, and yours can't save you, either The problem with individual healing as a solution for systemic issues

I wrote about the limitations (and benefits) of therapy within the constraints of capitalism

shout out to people who hold themselves accountable, even when nobody else is watching. even when blissful ignorance feels like the easy way out.

The part of you that feels "behind" is comparing your private struggles to other people's public victories. You're not late to your own life—you're exactly where you need to be to appreciate what's coming.

you're allowed to feel multiple emotions about the same situation. grateful and disappointed. hopeful and exhausted. excited and terrified. complexity isn't confusion—it's human.

this tweet literally outlasted twitter. what a time.

the most dangerous form of attachment isn't to other people—it's to the outdated versions of yourself that no longer serve you. give yourself permission to evolve beyond your own expectations.

Things they don't tell you about healing: it's cyclical, not linear. You'll revisit the same wounds with new awareness. You'll think you're done only to discover deeper layers. This isn't failure—it's integration.

We weren't designed to process global tragedy at breakfast, respond to work emergencies at dinner, and fall asleep to doom-scrolling at night.

Our nervous systems never consented to this arrangement.

“The cost of indecision isn’t just stagnation–it’s the slow erosion of trust in yourself.”
@michellcclark.bsky.social

the better you understand yourself, the less inclined you are to crave other people’s approval.

one person's "too much" is another person's "just right."

instead of contorting yourself to meet other people’s expectations, take time to find people who love you, in full.

less: “did I impress them?”
more: “can I face myself?”

less: “am I keeping up?”
more: “am I honoring my pace?”

less: “what will they think?”
more: “what do I want?”

My friends when to see it in imax tonight, and all screens were sold out at her theater.

two-faced behavior cuts deeper than the initial wound—it sows invisible seeds of doubt that limit your ability to trust other people. learn to recognize the warning signs and protect your heart before the damage becomes your story.

no matter how carefully you choose your words, there comes a time when you must speak your truth and release your grip on how others receive it.

as a recovering perfectionist who stumbled into influence, I've learned this truth:

no amount of overthinking can protect you from misinterpretation.

there's no version of conformity that will protect you from judgment—so you might as well be judged for who you actually are.

I’ll send it out first thing in the morning.

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