“You can be both soft and intense. Both vulnerable and strong. Both traditional and rebellious. Both romantic and realistic. Both feminine and oceanic yet filled with slow burning fire. There is possibility inside of paradox. There is a universe of different perceptions.”
– Victoria Erickson
[Image: Daydreams oil on canvas laid on board by German artist Eduard Niczky (1850-1919).]
“We fight, we fix, we love, we stay.” That’s called maturity. It’s the ability to navigate the ups and downs of relationships with grace, humility, and a willingness to grow together.
Fighting is inevitable, but it’s how we fight that matters. Maturity means learning to communicate effectively, to listen actively, and to resolve conflicts in a healthy and constructive way.
Fixing means taking responsibility for our actions, apologizing when we’re wrong, and making amends. It involves the willingness to compromise and find common ground.
Loving means choosing to prioritize the relationship, even when it’s hard. It means showing up with empathy, compassion, and kindness, even in disagreement.
Staying means committing to the journey through the good times and the bad. It means recognizing that relationships are a journey, not a destination, and being willing to put in the work to maintain and strengthen them.
Maturity is not about being perfect; it’s about being willing to learn, grow, and evolve together. It’s about understanding that relationships involve ups and downs, twists and turns, and being willing to navigate them with courage, resilience, and love.
So, let’s embrace the fight, fix, love, and stay. Let’s choose maturity and cultivate healthy, fulfilling relationships that bring joy and happiness to our lives.
✍🏻 Worth Sharing
🎨 Marius van Dokkum
I pray I’ve done my work so, that when I’ve gone from here, in all the turmoil through the wreckage and rumble, when someone finds themselves digging through the ruins, they’ll find me. Somewhere in that wreckage, they’ll find something they can use, that I left behind. And if I’ve done that, then I’ve accomplished something in life.
James Baldwin 💫
💭The Price of the Ticket
✨Artwork by Michelle Lake
Healing does not mean wallowing in or identifying with injury. Nor does it mean defensive inaction. It means having the courage to see, acknowledge, grieve, and repair the holes ourselves (with, if we are fortunate, loving help from others). It means moving on, patches and all.
Marion Woodman 💫
🪽Coming Home to Myself
✨Artwork by Trudi Sissons
The day you manage to stay calm in front of whoever provokes you, when your silence is the right answer, the day you manage to stay calm in the face of the storm.
In the face of noise and foolish words, then you will have achieved the greatest of your successes, to dominate yourself.
It is no longer about winning or losing, being better or worse, having or not having the coveted reason,
it is not even about triumphing over others, it is about the fact that,
finally, you have reached the top of a very high mountain, and it is to conquer you, prioritize yourself and put your mental health first,
your emotional intelligence.
Observe and look around you, don’t judge anymore, just observe the unhappiness, the lack of self-esteem, the burdens and pains that others must carry to live tending other people’s lives, to be aware of the lives of others.
The more you love yourself, the less you will care about the projection in someone else’s eye,
the more you love yourself; you will focus on improving yourself and only you.
Author Unknown
art | Ana Neima
#midwivesofthesoul #ananeima
“Some people survive and talk about it. Some people survive and go silent. Some people survive and create. Everyone deals with unimaginable pain in their own way, and everyone is entitled to that, without judgement. So the next time you look at someone’s life covetously, remember…you may not want to endure what they are enduring right now, at this moment, whilst they sit so quietly before you, looking like a calm ocean on a sunny day. Remember how vast the ocean’s boundaries are. Whilst somewhere the water is calm, in another place in the very same ocean, there is a colossal storm.” – Nikita Gill
“We are at a critical point. We have a very narrow window of opportunity to get it right, and to get it right, we first have to imagine a new world, story by story. Historically human beings use stories to explore our place in the world: we tell stories about it. Sometimes they’re scientific stories. Sometimes they’re philosophical stories. Sometimes they’re songs or movies. Sometimes they’re fables or morality tales. We need to tell new stories to describe who we are in relation to the land, to honor what’s been lost, to help us understand our kinships, to affirm what we care about, to explore the difference between right and wrong, moral and immoral.”
Kathleen Dean Moore 💫
✨Artwork by Laurie Kaplowitz
“Until you heal the WOUNDS of your past, you will continue to bleed.
You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life.
You must find the strength to open the wounds,
stick your hands inside,
pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories and make peace with them.”
-Iyanla Vanzant-
Photo: Pinterest
Archaeology for the Woman’s Soul
Corina Andronache
One day you will realize that happiness is not what your house looks like, but how you love the people within its walls.
Happiness is not finding success by a certain time, but finding something you love so much time itself seems to disappear.
Happiness is not thinking you have earned the world’s approval, but waking up each day and feeling so at peace within your own skin, quietly anticipating the day ahead, unconcerned with how you are perceived.
Happiness is not having the best of everything, but the ability to make the best of anything.
Happiness is knowing you did what you could with what you were given.
Happiness is not something that comes to us when every problem is solved and all things are perfectly in place, but in the shining silver linings that remind us of the light of day is always there, if we slow down enough to notice!
~ Brianna Wiest
~ Image via Pinterest
No Matter What They Say
You do not have to get over it.
You will carry your grief
and be carried by loss
in any way the carrying happens.
As if you had a choice.
Grief builds rooms inside you
no one else will ever see,
rooms with doors
only you can pass through
filled with songs or silence
only you can hear.
Rest here. Or dance here.
Shout. Or whisper. Rise
like milkweed seeds on the wind.
Or lie. Here, you can only do it right.
Here, there are no other eyes
or ears to tell you what to do
or how long it will take
or what choices to make.
And if you are weeping, weep.
And if you are dry, you are dry.
The rest of the world
can talk about stages
of grief and how it should be,
but you, you do not have to listen.
~ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
[Image: Sarah Treanor]
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