just imagined someone telling me “it’s okay to make mistakes, it doesn’t mean you’re bad and it doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with you” and started crying so uh
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in the right context this would floor me
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those contexts being the ones where I let myself actually hear and process the words
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it do be like that sometimes huh
(this was an ideal mother thing fwiw)
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I am not able to do IPF stuff yet. what is the visual, do you picture your actual mom, but acting differently?
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no, you're explicitly warned to not do that. i use a specific very kind and beautiful older woman i know (i was warned to not do this either but meh). anyone who feels "ideal" to you in the relevant way - someone you can feel warm about, comforted by, accepted by, etc.
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