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When it comes to Hidradenitis Suppurativa, there’s a lot that’s misunderstood. For starters, many people have never even heard of HS, let alone have a comprehensive understanding of the symptoms, or possible courses of treatment.
You don’t have to accept half their love and half their attention because you feel like that’s as good as you’re going to get.
PISCES: You don’t understand why you’re supposed to act like you’re the one who cares less. You care deeply and you want to show it.
I wanted to take this moment to thank you. Thank you for being my people when I needed you to be.
I forgive myself for all the times I said I wasn’t pretty enough, smart enough, good enough, witty enough, and worthy enough.
Before you buy into the story of their “crazy ex” and jump on the bashing bandwagon, stop for a minute. Think about what this might be saying about your date instead of the so-called “crazy ex” from their past.
Love is the difficult conversation to try to make things right. Love is admitting when you are wrong. Love is carrying the weight of the world together.
You don’t call it quits because things have gotten too hard. You don’t assume you are destined to remain in the same place for the rest of your existence. You don’t lose faith in yourself.
Society may make you feel like there are things you need to achieve to be doing life the “right” way, but life does not come with a rule book.
What happens when an emotional, possessive zodiac sign finds themselves in a relationship with an elusive, free-spirited zodiac sign? A not-so-great love match, that’s what.
Instead of having these self-sabotaging thoughts about your trauma, shifting your mindset lets you realize that your life has always been under your control all this time.
Toxic people are so hard to walk away from because there are plenty of good qualities to cancel out their bad qualities — but you can’t pay too much attention to how they treat you on their good days and completely ignore how horribly they treat you on their bad days.
Recognizing WOC and understanding their motivations, their struggles, and their achievements are crucial to create a history mirroring society in the 21st century.
Despite the wounds you bear and the scars you carry, the pain of the past, and the burden of the present, you are innately worthy of a life worth living.
If you have never been to a Pride parade, you are missing out. Every June, cities across the globe join together in a series of festivities to celebrate their LGBTQ+ community and how far their love has taken them.
There is one thing I’d like you to know.
If you feel like this pain will never end,
understand that this is never your permanent abode.
When a girl who was never shown the right way to love tries to get into the game, how can she possibly win?
ARIES: You never hesitate to make the first move. You’re impulsive, so you can’t hold back your feelings for long.
If you take two water signs, Cancer and Pisces, do you get a good love match, or is it just a hurricane of emotions?
I want you to try something today. I want you to look into the mirror and see yourself.
I am opinionated because I am empathetic; and I won’t apologize for getting political or bringing up uncomfortable conversations that need to be had.
You have every right to believe whatever you want to believe, whether it’s a fundamentalist belief or not.
Burning the candle at both ends was tough. Two jobs and a buzzing social scene, is there any wonder I substituted the tea for coffee?
It’s hard to think of myself as anything but fair, accepting, and good. I try really hard to be a good person and thinking about having any hints of racism within me makes me feel that any good that was there is completely eradicated.
Since this full moon comes with a lunar eclipse as well, we can expect to experience the need to let go of unhealthy attachments and toxic behaviors.
Can we beg and fight and kick and scream in the direction of lawmakers to fund things differently? To decry and denounce racial injustice, police brutality, and systemic forms of separation and inequality that keeps the wealth gap too wide to sew shut? Can we arrange a list of demands?
I thought being White would make my life easier. I am disgusted with the girl I used to be, but that doesn’t mean I can’t strive to be the woman I am today.
Modern dating is comprised of casual relationships just to feel momentarily good about ourselves, until we remember that it was never love to begin with. Modern dating is the wall that breaks relationships apart, because it’s meant to be a short-term, casual thing- something not meant to last.
They say intense feelings for someone can create an emotional transformation within us that never really goes away. Even when its fire fades with the passing of time, it still lingers somewhere in our hearts for as long as we are breathing.
The problem with being your almost is that it makes me feel like I’m almost enough, almost perfect, almost worthy. Almost, but never quite there.
Racism starts from the ground up; we have to teach our children true values and what is actually right and wrong. But we can’t do that until we fix the problem happening with those who are set to teach them from birth.
december 14th was eight years ago and Sandy Hook
is no longer a headline but it is still a massacre decorating
the walls of my memory.
Every day, I sit and watch my ideas come to the table and gradually disintegrate under intense scrutiny and suspicion. This is a table I now refer to as “a place where ideas come to die”. It is a table that resembles Black American life.
She was thirsty. It was the middle of a 90 degree summer night and a steady sleep seemed unlikely. She turned over in bed to reach for a glass of water and suddenly everything around her was wet.
In astrology, we have Taurus and Scorpio, two opposite signs on the zodiac wheel. Taurus is an earth sign, while Scorpio is a water sign.
You’ve been tricked into thinking that your emotions are wrong, that your gut feelings are wrong, that everything about you is wrong, wrong, wrong.
When a plant doesn’t bloom properly, you make changes to the environment in which it’s growing, not the plant itself.
There is an intense karmic bond between a Scorpio and a Virgo. When you take a water element and an earth element, you create something powerful and life-long. Is it a good love match though?
Like any other fire sign who’s fallen in love, a Sagittarius will spoil you with the most expensive gifts they can find, take you on life-changing trips, and ultimately be that person you can always count on to have your back no matter what.
It is not a true love or a soulmate kind of connection- but the kind where even if you are not in my life, I will always feel this bond.
Telling someone to let go of whatever is bothering them is like telling someone with anxiety to just relax or telling someone who’s angry to calm down. It’s frustrating, pointless, cliched.
Painting is a great way to express yourself while adding new artwork or color to your home. However, sometimes it can be hard to find the inspiration you need to get started.
There’s nothing better than deciding that you still have a say, you still have a choice, you still have a voice you can use to shift your life into another direction.
