AROOSAK

I wanted to make a post thanking anyone who has purchased my affirmation prints so far 🥺 each print has an intention behind it. this one in particular is to remind yourself that each choice you make should be honouring your needs and wants. giving yourself the space to make mistakes and learn from them. the opportunity to speak to yourself with compassion. the goal of creating a safe relationship with yourself.

You are valuable and because you are valuable, take your time and go at your own pace with all the things you want to practice with self respect, self compassion, self love, and self care.

This print is still available, check out my bio to get your very own lil aroosak print ✨ s/o to @xsylvs for always bringing my ideas to life

Boundaries help you become intentional with your energy and time. Boundaries establish loving relationships, strong connection, optimistic opportunities, and reassurance.

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My solitude brought healing and happiness. I am living in that stage right now. I’ve reached a point in my life where I can say that I consistently have something to be happy for. I get messages every day of people who fear picking themselves first, scared of what will happen if they finally do what they feel is best for them. I can tell you one thing, feel the fear, feel uncomfortable, and still choose you.

Your peace is waiting for you when you are ready.

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My favourite way to express myself is through my writing. It is a place where self connection and awareness collab together to help guide me. Try out these prompts! You can draw them out, write it out, record yourself speaking the answers, or even just taking a second with yourself and ponder on them in your mind. ✨

Nurture your self esteem, speak to yourself with respect, understand that building a better relationship with yourself takes time & action.

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pics from life before covid calls for a journal entry from that period of my life. I was in a stage in my life where I was learning what confidence meant to me and how to step away from male validation + healing my inner child from trauma men have caused me since I was 4. Give it a read, if it resonates know you are reaching a new level in your self awareness.

I find that viewing life as an externalization of the self rather than an internalization is a much healthier state of mind. By that I mean, I think people have to consciously make an effort to recognize that only what we put out into the world is a reflection of ourselves, not what the world presents to us. We will never be in control of how other people behave or look at us and we shouldn’t try to be, the only thing we can focus on is how we behave and think about others. Male attention and validation is the external source that I am internalizing. There’s probably been a lot of times that I have asked myself “what does he think of me?”, and I think that’s the source of the problem. It’s never about what anyone thinks of me, it’s about what I think about other people. If I think that they have the power to look at me and judge my value, do I not possess the ability to do the same to them? Does that not make me their equal? It works both ways, it is up to me to choose which one to focus on.

Different seasons require different things. Like physical wounds, sometimes it needs to be cleaned. Sometimes it needs to be covered up. Sometimes it needs to air out. Sometimes you need to stop “picking” at it. Like tending to a garden: you plant seeds, you water, you do things that facilitate growth but the growth itself takes time. The growth itself can’t be rushed. Especially with something as intense as childhood trauma, you can’t rush it.

If you take in too much information too fast you’re not really even integrating it. If you’re used to treating yourself abusively, even healing can be another weapon you use to beat yourself up with. It’s not a race.

It takes time to rewire your brain and befriend your nervous system.

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I remember when I was 18, severely sick & had no self esteem or direction of what I wanted. I turned to affirmations, I had no expectations of them, I just wanted to speak with more love to myself even if I did not believe it in fully.

Every morning I would read the ones I wrote on my wall until a year later I was practicing the words I was speaking to my soul. We are always subconsciously growing, the routines we have reflect on what is ahead.

I share affirmations because I think they are a good tool, not a cure. My favourite way to practice them is saying them to myself in the morning before I even touch my phone. ‪The love you give recycles and circulates throughout the universe, no expression of love is ever lost or wasted.‬ Feed yourself love.

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April reminds us that rain is needed in order to bloom.

Entering this month, I wish to remind you no single fight surpasses the battle within. It takes nonchalant mastery to cope with your ever changing ways. To understand your paradox is to be patient with yourself.

It takes time because it takes will, strength, and knowledge of self. Learning consists of failing too. After all you are your greatest enigma.

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end of the semester has my creativity on zero and in full survival mode 🥲 but in the meantime before I make wholesome content here are some memes

well 4th isn’t a meme but a reminder if you needed that

Had a conversation today about solid foundation of friendship being reciprocity, trust, and loyalty manifested as love. It made me reflect on the values that as a west asian woman I had to teach myself. Building a better relationship with myself created a chain reaction for better relationships in my life.

There is more to life than what we are conditioned to believe. You are way more than a pit stop or a builder for people.

What is something you have taught yourself that helped you reclaim your power?

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A gentle reminder to hold space for yourself especially on days where you feel less present. 🤍

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Going from, “I don’t deserve to set boundaries” to “Having a relationship with me is a gift not everyone is entitled to.”

It has been a while since I made an inner child post, I have felt very present in my life the past few weeks. I feel present in my feelings, thought process, and healing.

Being transparent with yourself is an act of courage (hint because it requires vulnerability). Acknowledging where your pain stems from is where you will be able to change the narrative.

You are the difference maker. Remind yourself of that today.

If you wish to support my work, be sure to check out my affirmation art prints! Link in bio 💐

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My favourite part of experiences is the lessons it can bring us after we have moved through the feelings of it. Through my observations, I have learned how to be a better friend, daughter, partner, student, but most importantly a better person to myself.

If you are reading this, I hope you know you are powerful beyond what you know. the first step to healing is finding the places you still bleed from.

If you wish to support my work, be sure to check out my affirmation art prints! Link in bio 💐

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I present to you the affirmation art prints I have been working on with @xsylvs 🥺 LINK IN MY BIO TO ORDER YOUR VERY OWN LIL AROOSAK PRINT!

This project has been in the works since December. From the process of narrowing down which affirmations, the colour scheme, the theme, and most importantly the intention each print will serve.

All I have are my words. I am a woman of my words. A woman filled with words. A woman who adores words of affirmation.

The pre access community members have supported this launch so much 😭 I am close to selling out!!!!

As always @xsylvs thank you for our business relationship, your creativity, and most importantly the friendship we have built within the last year. You are going places and I would appreciate my community members following her on her journey to changing hype beast culture!

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my word of the month: intentions

These reminders are my life lessons. Lessons I have discovered through times where I endured pain I thought I could not live through. But I did. I lived through it and now share my lessons with you.

I wrote in my journal when I was 18 and had just moved out on my own, I wrote “you find your world falling apart, but you still feel love. You turn to words. Words fall from the sky into your mouth and then onto a page. Someone calls it poetry. You know it’s a desperate attempt to survive”.

Words are powerful. These reminders hold each of their own power that I hope you feel in your heart or mind. Before this week ends know that you’ve always got a friend somewhere in you. I hope you have found it or are learning how to.

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I found healing when I told ego to lower its voice and sit in the corner, while I asked my wounds important questions. To start this week, I share my reflections I have had the past few weeks. The best breakthroughs come from honest conversations with ourselves. Ask yourself if you have had one with yourself recently & then ask if you are ready for one.

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I love to share affirmations and discuss how powerful they can be, especially for those who are just starting their journey of upgrading their internal dialogue.

The way you speak to yourself greatly impacts your life. When you feed yourself words of compassion vs criticism you will see a change in not only your mind but behaviours. That is why I believe affirmations to be powerful regardless of what stage of your healing journey you are in.

One of the first things I started incorporating into my morning routine when I was getting serious about changing my life were affirmations. Sometimes we can be super self aware but still have strong negative thought patterns and low self esteem issues.

It can start with saying out loud 5 things you feel grateful for every morning and saying 3 statements you feel you need to hear at that moment. Affirmations help rewrite unconscious beliefs that support our mental well being. It can remind you of important respect for yourself which allows you to see events from a reasonable, mindful, and rational viewpoint. It simply can feel good to dwell on the value you have.

Gently starting with neutral statements may be easier for folks if being full of self love statements are hard for you in the beginning. Much of your inner dialogue comes from the way your caregiver spoke to you and now it is time for you to change the script. Try to find the root of where your negative speech comes from, honour it, and face it head on, be ready to challenge it.

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Taking a break from Instagram lead to having so many healing breakthroughs that I needed for the month of February. ❣️

I want to share those moments with you, share the insight I discovered and reassurance I gave myself. My best friend said to me “you are going to awaken a whole new version of yourself and im excited for you to meet her”. She was right. A new version of me was brought into this world.

Your life can change with one decision. The world works with you not against you through that decision. Heartbreak isn’t easy and nor is self betrayal. May my moments of clarity help guide you too. ✨

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Today is the day I turned 21. How surreal that feels to type, to have this life that I wanted to return at one point. I finally have the capacity and skills to be present and love everything and everyone in my life.

This version of me is created from lessons, laughter, love, hope, pain, and compassion. Today I thank myself, I thank myself for giving myself the space to grieve parts of myself that needed it and embrace new parts of myself. I thank myself for operating from a place of love and understanding. I thank myself for being vulnerable, sensitive, and in tune.

I go into my 21st year listening to myself, speaking my truth, and the word for this chapter is compassion.

photographer: @bbuggzz

Journaling is my favourite way to build a better relationship with my feelings and thoughts. Seeing the words on paper or hearing my soothing voice express myself on voice notes, it brings a connection that I will always value.

Today I want to share quote prompts that create a wave of thoughts, memories, and perspectives in me. Quote prompts are wonderful and playful way to express yourself.

If you resonated with the quote, you’re internalizing that message, training your mind to think a certain way. When you write about it, in your voice and hand, that inspiration becomes your own. You create an inner cheerleader that helps you move forward. A quote that really makes you stop and think, provides the perfect opportunity to write. Someone else's wisdom may open a space in your mind and heart, allowing you to dig deeper.

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When you start to take yourself on this level you are facing the emotions you have been avoiding and become empowered by your capacity to feel fully. You are giving yourself the space to heal through setting boundaries with folks that you feel constantly disrespected by or even practicing journaling to be able to see your feelings and thought patterns in its full emobindement. When you turn inwards, you are breaking, dismantling and disintegrating a lineage of emotional repression. You take your power back when you show vulnerability even though it can feel uncomfortable in the beginning.

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Healthy relationships allow each individual person to be their authentic self and give room for growth. I refuse to carry on the generational patterns of trauma. It didn’t start with me but it will stop with me. I choose to address the trauma that caused my attachment problems.

If you are interested in discovering more about this look into attachment theory.

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Journal prompt for changing our inner dialogue: How do you see yourself? What are the words that you repeat to yourself over and over in your head?

The practice of loving yourself and engaging in self-care rituals starts internally with the stuff that you can't buy. It involves stripping away the layers of what we have built up to protect ourselves from pain and finding the root of what makes us tick. Much of that requires reflection and deep honesty of the roles that we have played in our lives.

Much of our inner diagonal comes from our childhood: the way our parent/care giver spoke to us. It’s time for you to change the script 🤍

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Advocating for yourself is a way to take back your power! Speaking up when you feel hurt is power. There will always be power in vulnerability.

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Courage. The word of the month for me is courage. To put yourself first, it takes courage. To leave situations that are causing you harm, it takes courage. To cry and grieve all your feelings without suppressing, that is the act of courage.

I am proud of you and I am proud of myself. For us two, saw what was happening to us & understood that we needed to save ourselves. Leaving relationships (romantic, family, friends) is HARD. It shows your courage and commitment to you. I will not say I am sorry for your breakup, I will say I am proud. I am proud of you.

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Depression can feel like a heavy cloud following us everywhere. Saying comments as such to people struggling with depression is not only hurtful but also very ignorant to the individuals situation. Leading with empathy is what someone needs not shame or criticism.

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My 3 affirmations for this month! My intention is to continue to move from a place of passion and speak from a place of compassion.

I wish for you to comment an affirmation you love to use in your life 🤍

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