This is my place to hang my DA II/Dragon Age Inquisition Fandom hat, either by reblogging my love for Fenris & Anders or passing on fics or amazing art.
Fenris avatar by Jakface
Fenris Avatar Colouring by msbarrows
When you just can’t love yourself, just work on giving yourself basic respect.
When you just can’t practice self care, aim for basic hygiene and keeping yourself alive.
When you just can’t have positive thoughts, focus on ignoring the negative ones.
When you just can’t quit those bad habits and unhealthy coping mechanisms, be sure to take care of yourself afterwards.
When you just can’t make yourself eat enough, aim for something three times a day, even if it’s something small.
When you just can’t stop binge eating, just do your best to forgive yourself and focus on something else instead of dwelling on it for any longer.
Not everyone is at a point where they can recover, and so thinking about recovery can be intimidating and make them shut down, because they just feel like they’re nowhere close to getting better so they might as well not bother. There needs to be more advice on dragging yourself through the days. Self care to the bare minimum. Aiming for “feeling okay with yourself” or “feeling less awful about yourself” rather than loving yourself. Baby steps.
The SINGLE most valuable thing I acquired from my undergrad degree was internalising this: something is better than nothing.
‘Perfect’ is the enemy of ‘good’. ‘Good ‘is often the enemy of ‘done’. Best practices are almost always the enemy of better practices.
I have spent a lot of time in my professional life – in several different fields, actually – trying to convince people to do something. Because something is always better than nothing. Even if it’s a very, very small something. It’s still better.
Also, self-improvement is work, and like any other form of work, you can take on too much and burn out. Don’t burn yourself out. At least do something, and self-improve at your own pace. Don’t rush it.
Constantly torn between “I can’t ask for help bc then I’m annoying and everyone will be mad” and “I must ask for help at every possible stage because I might do it wrong and then everyone will be mad” ya feel
Ok I was wrong, dug deep into my Flickr and found a 2009 pic I don’t hate. Comparison is a selfie from this weekend. — view on Instagram http://bit.ly/2AHIPMI
It took 90 years to complete. But, in 2011, scholars at the University of Chicago finally published a 21-volume dictionary of Akkadian, the language used in ancient Mesopotamia. Unspoken for 2,000 years, Akkadian was preserved on clay tablets and in stone inscriptions until scholars deciphered it during the last two centuries.
@japan-magpie Yup!! The final volumes were completed just a couple months before I took Akkadian. The dictionary is super convenient, and even better, it’s free….!! I’ve redownloaded the volumes each time I’ve switched computers/harddrives, too. <3
