"Don’t let your struggle become your identity."
Sober Recovery (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
COUNSELLING BLOG: 10 Easy Ways to Brighten Someone’s Day
1. Be generous with your smiles
2. Listen attentively when people talk to you.
3. Be warm and friendly. If you don’t know the people in the group, be the first one to introduce yourself.
4. Pay others compliments (make sure they are genuine – and not fake).
5. Be considerate and…
"We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are."
J.K. Rowling (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
"Be of service. You are taking your degree into a society dominated by concentrated poverty and a vulnerable middle class, a society where it is harder to pay for education, harder to find a job, harder to buy a house and harder to hold onto those things even if you manage to get them. You are entering adulthood during a period of mass incarceration and near constant war. There is a lot for you to do. Service is the rent you pay for the space you take up on the earth, and as a relatively privileged American you take up a lot of space. We are the most consuming, polluting, wasteful nation on earth. So your rent is steep. Pay it with service."
Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry’s advice to Class of 2013 (via bitchwhoisyou)
amen
(via youngblackandvegan)
"You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn’t care about losing you."
Anonymous (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
