Lisa Matthews Paul- Coffee, chaos, & healing

16/05/2024

You’re going to want to watch this to the end 🤦🏻‍♀️

15/05/2024

How easily people forget just how cold I can be.

11/05/2024

10/05/2024

mother’s day weekend feelings 🤍🪽

10/05/2024

08/05/2024

Sara Rian Books

07/05/2024

"Am I broken?" asked Rabbit.
"No," said Bear. "You're healing. Healing can be messy and it takes time. Sometimes it might feel like you're broken but that's just a rough edge being soothed as it grows and fits into a new place."

©️Tara Shannon


***Behind the scenes... I first created this in 2021, and the dialogue ended with Bear saying, "Soon... you'll be stronger than you were before."

I liked that last sentence then. But now, looking back, I see it as coming from a version of me that wanted that last part to be true.

Truth is, I don't necessarily feel stronger.

But I do feel different.

I feel I have developed new insights and ways of coping. And, in other ways, I feel I have much more empathy... I cry a little quicker, worry more where maybe I didn't before.

I did build a new me, out of love, patience... a little battered and bruised, not necessarily stronger... but still here, carrying on as best I can.

And, that's okay. ❤️

With Love

I fell apart
And after a while
I carefully began to pick up
my broken pieces
Saying,
"I love you"
To each and every one

And that...

That's how I
put myself
back together again

07/05/2024

This wasn’t how it was supposed to be 🤍

06/05/2024

this week❤️‍🩹💔

06/05/2024

🥺

and i’m not sure which is worse…🩷

04/05/2024

23/04/2024

🤍

22/04/2024

This ❤️

17/04/2024

This is what DONE means.

🖤

15/04/2024

with every day older I get, i realize this more and more.

the absence of my mother is so strong in my adult life, at times, feeling even stronger than when I was younger. I’d do anything to get to have an adult relationship with her.

there is so much she has missed, and so much she will continue to miss.

she should be here.

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15/04/2024

💯

and nowhere to put it 🩷

10/04/2024

Ma💜