1. You are worthy.
2. You are allowed to struggle.
3. You are allowed to talk.
4. You are not alone.
5. What happened does not define you.
6. What happened was not your fault.
7. You deserve to take up space.
8. It’s ok to be the way you are right now. It is understandable that you felt the way you felt. It is understandable that you did the things you did to cope. It is understandable that you didn’t know how to do better.
9. Your unhealthy habits were just survival mechanisms that you held onto to protect yourself. You aren’t trying to be self-destructive! Your brain is just telling you that danger is imminent so you prepare accordingly. But you just need to slowly build new, healthy habits because you aren’t in danger anymore.
10. You are safe.
11. You don’t need permission to exist.
12. You are not your trauma. Your dysfunctions are not a measurement of your true ability.
13. It’s ok to have a bad day, week or month. Healing is not linear.
14. I fall down and I just bounce back up again.
15. Breathe!
16. This too shall pass.
17. Be kind with yourself.
18. You have the right to acknowledge your feelings without having to justify them.
19. I am not a mistake; I am not fundamentally flawed.
20. You are allowed to ask for help.
21. You are allowed to celebrate the fact that you survived.
22. Change is the only constant.
23. It’s ok to feel. It’s ok to feel bad. It’s ok to let it out. It’s ok to cry. It’s ok to be hurting. It’s ok to be angry.
24. Feeling bad doesn’t make me a bad person. All my emotions are valid.
25. Thinking suicidal thoughts doesn’t mean I want to kill myself, it’s just means I am hurting and in need of care.
26. You are allowed to be afraid and avoid what frightens you.
27. I’ve managed to survive all this while in the dark. Now that I have the answers, I can find my out.
28. I refuse to judge myself according to the standards of a society that makes no place for people like me.
29. You are allowed to do things that make you feel better. You are allowed to heal.
30. I will be patient and love myself as I heal.
“Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.“
