every decision that I make and every action that I take will happen with my happiness and health in mind. I will not give in to things that bring me temporary happiness but have negative residual effects. I will also not beat myself up if I “mess up” here and there, because beating myself up…
(Source: amanda-actually)
I am really starting to come to grips with the fact that most people aren’t going to applaud the fact that I choose to wake up each day with a strong resolve to get through the day without being plagued by a steady stream of negative and self-defeating thoughts. This is not a big accomplishment…
(Source: amanda-actually)
Anonymous:Yes! If you come of anonymous, I will give you my email address where you can send a paypal payment of $10. If you don’t have a paypal account, I can give you my address where you can send a check :)
Perhaps she changed her blog url and is still floating around somewhere and will see this! (Where you at, Imogen?!)
I do agree with you about small things making a difference. Small but persistent efforts are most often the things that produce great change.
I also love the saying that says something to the effect of …”the best thing you can do for this world is to be a completely healthy you.” :)
Submissions are now open on this blog. I’d love to hear your stories!
If you have a FYG story - any story about a time, recent or past, that you or someone you know has been faced with some sort of adversity and made an empowering decision and were proud of yourself or that person as a result - to contribute, please do!
(Source: midnightelectronicrelaxation, via karalee-liveshealthy)
Yeah yeah yeah, we’ve all heard it before, “treat others the way you would like to be treated” but we seem to miss something very important: that we should also treat OURSELVES the way we want to be treated by others.
I was with a close friend recently, and I some negative self talk slipped out of my mouth. He said to me, “You’re SO mean to yourself!”
And he was right. If someone were to speak to me the way I often speak to myself, I certainly wouldn’t want much to do with them. “Fuck Yeah, Girl” wouldn’t talk to herself like that, and she definitely would not tolerate anyone else disrespecting her in such a way
Stop bashing yourself. Look for and appreciate the good. Accept the things you do not like that you cannot change and appreciate them as being things that are unique to you. And as for the things you want to improve on? What’s stopping you from making those positive changes? I’m willing to bet it is a negative, self defeating, “I can’t do anything right” attitude that is stopping you.
Believe in yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. The way you treat yourself sets the bar for how other people will treat you. So come on, set the bar high. You deserve it!
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Another FYG Story Submission! Thanks for sharing, Imogen!The photo above and the following story was submitted by nachocheeseandanarchy.tumblr.com/
There’s this girl on my Facebook friends list who I don’t like. I’m sure everyone has them - people we’ve (barely) kept in touch with from school, friends of parents or family, or people we didn’t really like that much in the first place. She posts a lot of racist/homophobic/sexist stuff on there, and usually I just sigh and scroll right past it, resolving to talk to her later about it. I never end up tackling her about it, in case you hadn’t realised.
The other day, she posted something using the word ‘gay’ in a derogatory way. I rolled my eyes, glad I didn’t have to speak to her in person any more, and got my mouse ready to scroll down the page, when I stopped for some reason. I looked down at my wrist, and saw my WWFYGD? bracelet.
I realised that a FYG thing to do would be asking her why she chose that word. A FYG thing to do would be teaching her about how it’s offensive. A FYG thing to do would be standing up for something I know is right, instead of just ignoring it and hoping someone else will do it. A FYG thing to do is the right thing, even if nobody else backs me up and I look like an idiot.
So, I inboxed her. Nothing major, just a short little comment about how I wish she wouldn’t use ‘gay’ like that, how she should really only use it when talking about gay people and how it’s actually pretty offensive because it looks like she thinks the word gay means the same as the word rubbish or awful.
I wasn’t expecting much back. Maybe a passive aggressive status aimed towards me was the best I could hope for. But I’d done my bit, so I got up from my chair and went to make a cup of coffee.
The ‘bing’ of facebook chat alerted me that someone was trying to talk to me, and after sitting down I realised it was the same girl from before. I inwardly groaned - I didn’t fancy a heated argument and the reason I’d written to her inbox was so she could think about what she was going to say. That was, until I read the message she sent me.
It was a long, apologetic message, full of hesitant pauses and hyperbole. I won’t bore you with it all, but the basic gist of it was she had no idea using the word in that way was offensive, and was hugely thankful I’d told her. One of her cousins had recently come out, and she didn’t know why he was acting standoffish towards her until I had spoken to her, and she suddenly realised it was because she kept on using gay in that way.
Now that girl’s awesome. I won’t say she’s perfect - she definitely slips up from time to time - but I know that since telling her such a simple thing she’s learned a lot more about safe, non-offensive speech. I know it’s not a huge thing; I know it won’t change the world or single handedly stop hate crime, but hey, at least it made one girl think a bit more about what she said :)
(Source: melstringer)
WWFYGD is a revolution dedicated to reminding women to make empowering decisions.
