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I had a someone I was tightly intertwined with, to the point the laces got constricting for us both. one morning I woke up and they had been cut loose, and the someone had fleed. this is a lonely, painful freedom - yet freedom, at last. I don't miss my someone for there was too much hurt, but the pressure of our fastened cords still lingers on my skin, the blood still sprouts and flows. how do I heal myself? could I be spared a word of comfort?
sending you so much warmth. sometimes a thing breaks like this. sometimes you come back together. when two plants grow in the same pot, they can become rootbound with each other in a way that makes them sick. the solution is to take them out of the pot and pull the roots apart and untangle them a bit, and then set them in soil that gives them their own space. both plants will thrive better in that circumstance. i know this message comes a bit late, so i hope the space has been enjoyable to you since
how do u feel about 🥀
a couple old aches. thats a nice one
How do you feel about 🐛?
love this little thing
i want to be honest and true to myself, i hate the things that come out of my mouth just to please everyone else, i hate killing my soul over and over again but i’ve been doing it so long that it happens so unconsciously now. i admire you so much and someday i want to be as true as you but right now i feel so caged. i hope you are doing well
you can do it, and it's worth it <3
hi miss june! how do you set up your journals? or do you just write? hope u have a good weekend
- 🪱
one of the most important parts of making journals for me is that i decorate the cover. i tend to also treat each set of 2 pages as "one set". on the right i write in slightly more normal form- several paragraphs about my feelings or activities. i like to add some symbols or decorations or small doodles to the tops and margins of this page relevant to it- which also makes it easy to remember which page is about what when im flipping back through it. on the LEFT side i often leave blank, or draw a big picture, but the most important thing i do with the left side is that i place "stray thoughts" there- contenxtless musings or reminders that arent for being in a paragraph but as standalone little statements.
dont feel like you have to adhere to any particular pattern when making a journal. make it any way you want, be inconsistent, but the most important thing id suggest is that you doodle often around your words in it.
hi momma when i get stripped down i feel something tiny and angular inside me that is very very very hungry. i dont know what to feed it. it goes away too quickly and gets covered back up by my own outer flesh. i dont want it to starve in here momma
it's scared. be patient. when you feel strange, lay down with your emotions and feel them wordlessly without examination. dont try to "yank it out", treat it like a shy little eel and let it brush your hand
I want to understand your strings. And your zines and the things you talk about. But it feels like humming a song without remembering the words. How can I understand
just keep humming the song, it's more important how it makes you feel. it will slowly click into place
you are a Real Witch :]
<3
what do you want bitch
to Eat the World silly
What is the way to stop feeling like I need to apologize for everything I do? It feels like it's rooted in me so deeply I start to doubt my own reality and can't tell if I'm being reasonable anymore. It's my innate instinct even when people call me out on it and recognize it as a trauma response I have extreme difficulty stopping. However it is only like sense of self / reality warpingly terrible when I can no longer tell what the truth is because the person who hurt me doesn't care and I start to become convinced it's my fault. I guess I'm just asking how do I stop this? It feels so deeply part of who I am at this point I no longer know where to begin.
its an awful habit that is an expression of you abandoning yourself in a way. repairing this wont be easy but it might help for you to start thinking of yourself as like a friend you want to stand up for too. if the apology feels like youre folding yourself, it's maybe not a real apology too- what youre saying is a lot less like "i want to own up to my mistakes" and a lot more like "please dont hurt me" and at the very least recognizing that might help.
youre so 🔆ful and endlessly inspiring to me and thank you so much!!
<33
how should i respond to people being antagonistic about Following june? i want to argue or at least try to explain but there's this feeling that i should just leave it be
i think that people shouldnt antagonize you for following me and also you are under no obligation to defend me.
June do you like hash!
it sounds nice
you have such a captivating spirit. youre beautiful, i love you
<3
To ask the opposite of that previous questioner. How do I stop feeling like I'm right about everything?
sounds like you need to deattach from needing to be right about everything. open yourself up to more curiosity
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