Lucy 🎀

She is beautiful 🥹 I absolutely adore how committed you are to drawing women characters with body hair and diverse body types; I know I do not comment a lot but please just know it makes me unbelievably happy to see every time 🥺💓💓💓

Art of my oc, who is an elf girl with long floppy ears and daisies and vines growing all over her body. She has a green straw basket full off flowers and a matching hat. and flower patterned shorts. She has a flower growing from where her eye would be. The text in the image says "Daily oc #8, Eternally beautiful daisy elf, Belle Perenielle"

Daily Oc #8: Flower Elf
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#qualiaautomata bullseye

two weirdos with religious cult motifs that wear sweaters or something #palsart #ghostandpals #qualiaautomata

Frances📞
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Ignoring, mocking, bullying, or punishing works about as well in our relationship w/ ourselves as it works in any other relationship long term.

Abusers' biggest trick that we need to unwind in recovery is programming us to treat ourselves the way they treated us.

The problem most trauma survivors in recovery face isn't w/ their "courage" or their "will." Survivors who are struggling w/ recovery most often lack resources & tools, & are working against deep conditioning-- but the culture has no problem blaming & shaming them for struggling.

Your feelings are valid & important. That's not feel good bullsh*t-- feelings are as useful as a car's fuel gauge & oil stick. We can't expect to function well if we ignore or misunderstood them-- which is why our abusers conditioned us to do exactly that. Don't fall for it.

No doubt, some days you will doubt that any of this "trauma recovery" bullsh*t is making any changes to your nervous system at all. But it is. That's the nature of long term, sustainable change-- it happens incrementally & non-dramatically.

Stay on target. Chip away.

Everything & anything that makes your world a safer, better feeling place, is worth getting getting curious about & developing. We're often so busy coping w/ the sh*t show that we don't pay attention to things that do or could add value to our life. But they matter-- so much.

everyone does improve at a different pace, though I will say you might be being too hard on yourself! If you’ve been practicing for 16 years I would bet you’ve improved a lot in that time. Sometimes it’s hard to tell because it happens slowly. :)

Failure. #tamari #ghostandpals #qualiaautomata

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#ghostandpals #staroftheshow #Amygdalasragdoll

Portrait illo of a young lady holding a frame up to her torso. There is a mixture of larkspur, lavender and dahlias springing from the frame. The lady is wearing large glasses, braids, a flower crown and a skeleton dress. There's a heart lightbulb hanging in front of the frame. Drawn by gdbee in Jan 2026

Frame, in violet

There is no "perfect" way to start or have some conversations-- & that's okay. Do it imperfectly. Just start the conversation. An imperfect conversation started is better than a "perfect" conversation that never happens.

Stumble though it. Pretend it's modern dance.

Forgive yourself for not expressing yourself perfectly. Forgive yourself for not knowing exactly what to say. Forgive yourself for having mixed feelings & sometimes conflicting needs.

Forgive yourself for being human. Turns out it's not a crime. (Who knew?)

No choice is more important today than how we talk to ourselves & what we do in response to us having f*cked up. We WILL f*ck up-- but we have at least a little wiggle room in whether we shred ourselves in response to f*cking up.

Easy does it. Just catch yourself when you can.

There are things we can do today, this hour, to be 1% more authentic & self-forgiving. Recovery & self improvement don't need to wait or happen in huge, dramatic gestures.

Look for the tiny thing you can do today, here, now, to be consistent w/ the life you're trying to create.

Make no mistake, checking in w/ ourselves as we work our recovery is hard. CPTSD makes us want to avoid checking in w/ ourselves, because it can be annoying or depressing or anxiety provoking. But self-care doesn't realistically happen if we're avoiding ourselves. Check in.

My absolute pleasure; huge thank YOU to you and your wife for this incredible comic, for all of your extremely hard work, and for the dedication and love you both pour into every single part of it 🥺🥹💗💖💝❤️‍🔥

Just yesterday night / early morning hours today I was catching up on some chapters and crying sobbing bawling wailing losing my mind over them (/very pos), I love them so much 😭😭😭💓💓💓💘💘💘💞💞💞
(I have a feeling I may have even had a dream with them in it but I cannot remember anything from it clearly)

isi and ro cuddling

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#VOCALOID #vflower #ibispaint

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#vflower #illustration
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Lwk thought this was funny 💔💔 #palsart #qualiaautomata

Anybody who is judging you for how you function or work your trauma recovery today doesn't matter. Them judging you demonstrates they're not working their recovery, which is their problem.

Anybody who ACTUALLY matters is rooting FOR you-- in recovery & in life.

Trauma recovery is far less about "the past" than many people assume. Working our trauma recovery does not have us "fixated" on "blame." It has us realistically understanding & shifting how we relate to ourselves & respond to our triggers. It's about here & now & what's next.

Self-compassion is not about "babying" or "coddling" ourselves or "making excuses." It's about learning to be realistically supportive of ourselves & reflexively on our own side-- rather than the default of attacking, disbelieving, or abandoning ourselves. No more; no less.

We DON'T have to feel or function awesomely to be on track w/ our recovery today. Sh*t & mid days are going to happen. What we want to focus on is: am I realistically listening to & supporting myself today w/ the tools & resources I have-- sh*t or mid day though it may be?