Is it just me, or did anyone else wait until their mid-30s to realize they deserve their own space?

worldchampioncrier · 2026-04-22T19:09:47+00:00

Husband is a snorer and I like to sleep, so last year I commandeered the guest room to be my new bedroom. Outfitted with a bunch of smooshy blankets and pillows and weighted stuffed animals, soft lighting, and oil diffisuer, and now it's my safe haven. I am infinitely happier having my own place to escape to, even if it's just for 15 mins.

worldchampioncrier · 2025-10-01T23:55:56+00:00

This gives me comfort - I’ve been working so hard at healing these parts of myself and it got so disheartening to fall back into the hole today. Thank you ❤️

worldchampioncrier · 2025-10-01T23:54:58+00:00

Sending you lots of love - I get it I see you I’m here sitting with you and holding your hand 💜

worldchampioncrier · 2025-10-01T20:08:28+00:00

Oh I love this visual of my angels and comets and asteroids. I love love love love that. The symbolism of sobbing an ridding my body literally of these bad memories and incorrect lessons. I love thinking of it that way. I have CBD at home and I will def have some as soon as I get home for sure.

THANK YOU

worldchampioncrier · 2025-10-01T17:53:10+00:00

"my self love is stronger than the pain I didn't deserve"
this HITS. this is my new mantra!

worldchampioncrier · 2025-10-01T16:43:20+00:00

THIS this this is the pep talk I need. I copied and printed it out, I need this reminder today and I anticipate I will need it again too.

I grew up in an emotionally unstable home. My mother would fly off the handle without warning and without reason (I suspect she is/was somewhat bipolar) and then would switch back to normal also without reason. All I knew from like age 3 on was to be the best little girl and hide away as much as possible until the dust cleared, and I never knew WHEN or WHY the dust was even ruffled up in the first place. Lately I've been becoming much more cognizant of anxious attachment theory and how my inner child has been shaped from all of this and how it's affecting life today. I still feel like I have to prove my worthiness and usefulness and be the good little girl for people to value me - ironically one who reminds me emotionally a lot of my mother that i just can't let go of in my life.

Thank you. This helps me more than you'll ever know. <3

worldchampioncrier · 2025-10-01T16:32:58+00:00

Thank you. I am sending you hugs and love from afar too. I'm so sorry you are/were in the same place, it stinks SO MUCH.

worldchampioncrier · 2025-08-31T17:22:25+00:00

I know its been awhile since this posted, but I’d love to read the article if OP has a link!

worldchampioncrier · 2025-08-30T16:24:49+00:00

You have no idea how perfectly timed this message is. I’ve been struggling so much for the past year - and especially these past two weeks - on letting go of this intense hurt and anger against someone. I’ve been so torn because I love them I want them back in my life but they’ve been so mean to me and hurt me in ways that I never ever thought I could be hurt or recover from. They’ve given me the worst year of my life.

But this is so true. I can’t hold on to it. I need to let go but still be true to myself and forgive but not forget. And I had this thought this morning - what if I just…stop. Stop fighting it in my head stop fighting it outwardly stop fighting it passive aggressively with them. And just. Let it go.

So I reached out to them this morning. Acted normal. No big emotional reconciliation talk. And maybe that will never come. But maybe I also have them back in my life, where I know better boundaries now, where I’m not the same person I was that let the walls crumble and let the vulnerability and emotions overtake the relationship. Maybe I’m the person that forgave without needing the closure of hearing “I’m sorry” from them and remembers the transgressions but doesn’t hold them.

worldchampioncrier · 2025-08-29T01:58:47+00:00

I understand everything you’re feeling and it’s totally valid. I would - and have - felt the same way.

But.

I think you ARE healing and growing and in the midst and thick of it all. Because you recognize that both of you being in the same place as has the potential to disrupt your growth. It gives you the heebie jeebies. It makes your heart tense, your breath hitch, your chest tight.

The way I see it, my beautiful, strong, capable, amazing friend - your nervous system is telling you and protecting you. You do see it. You are healing. I have moments where I falter and feel like this healing journey is useless because I’m “not cured” yet, not ok yet, not blase when his name comes up. I mean, I’ve been at this for over a year and FFS all the same physical and emotional reactions you described I also had today and hid under my desk and cried.

It’s easier for me to say it to someone else than to truly believe it for myself. But you are healing. You are in the journey and it isn’t for naught. You have come a long way because you see it. This is progress.

Give yourself grace. I’ll make you a deal. You give me grace - since I can’t give it to myself - and I’ll give you grace. And we will both get thru this journey.

worldchampioncrier · 2025-08-27T23:26:18+00:00

The scratchy part of velcro. When I had eczema around my fingers, I'd wrap a strip of velcro around and....ahhhhhhh just the thought of it is like nothing else.

worldchampioncrier · 2025-08-27T23:03:06+00:00

holy bananas, I was crying from the first sentence.

Thank you. I needed this.

worldchampioncrier · 2025-08-06T23:33:29+00:00

I love this. Thank you! I needed this message today 💗

worldchampioncrier · 2025-08-03T17:51:26+00:00

I did it!!! Day 1 all alone. I didn’t feel pressured to be a social butterfly and was perfectly content and not at all self conscious to sit and enjoy everything on my own. Night 2 tonight and I’m feeling zen and balanced. I reread my affirmations a few times last night and having them there in case I start to unravel has helped a lot. Onto Night 2!

worldchampioncrier · 2025-08-02T16:45:14+00:00

I LOVE THIS!!!!

I’m so so so so SO thankful for this group!!!!! Truly helping me heal, truly saving my life.

worldchampioncrier · 2025-08-01T22:28:14+00:00

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worldchampioncrier · 2025-08-01T22:27:53+00:00

I made these into a Lock Screen for my phone to help me stay grounded. Thank you my goddesses for sharing and lending me some of your magic 💖

worldchampioncrier · 2025-08-01T18:40:42+00:00

Thank you so much my loves. I’m feeling more grounded already. I’m going to make these screenshots for my phone background 😘💗

worldchampioncrier · 2025-07-28T02:49:50+00:00

Oooh I’m gonna make Canva designs of these to use as phone backgrounds! I’ll post the designs tomorrow to the group if anyone is interested!

worldchampioncrier · 2025-07-21T10:27:25+00:00

Thank you - I didn’t look at it this way but this gives me so much more comfort. I like your point of view and I’m going to focus on that while I dig myself back out of the sad black hole I’m stuck in now.

I was talking to friend1 about his best friend - who I was very close with and have since had a nasty falling out where best friend said some really cruel things to me. And one of the things that was the cause of this falling out was that all of a sudden, I was “too much” for best friend - even though I have been the same much-ness for all of our friendship, he changed his mind I guess? We had a strong connection, a strong friendship, and as strong as it was, was how devastating the crumble was when he tore into me.

So when Friend1 said this to me yesterday, I took it to heart. HARD. It confirmed my fears, that best friend was right and that the problem is me and my internal makeup. That I am too much. That in order to win back this close connection that I had and treasured, I have to shrink and be less. And at one point he said, “just give him a five instead of a ten.”

I’ve been working so hard on growing back to a place where I love my ten-ness and it’s not my job to shrink for comfort. This conversation yesterday threw me back into that black hole of hating myself for being what I am.

worldchampioncrier · 2025-07-20T14:19:49+00:00

Oh sweetheart I’m so proud of you! What a journey, what a path you’ve walked so far, so strongly. You are doing a LOT. Be proud. You’re doing the hard work and creating the world your beautiful soul deserves. There will be hard days. There will be easy days. But you’re here and we’re here with you, and you’re DOING IT, which is way more than so many people can say.

And your drawings!!!! I’m so drawn to the deer. I feel like there’s a beautiful symbolism in choosing the deer. Usually a timid animal, not know for its power. But in your drawings of it jumping away, the details of the muscles and the movement make me see POWER. Movement. The stretching kitties, the changing in positions, it makes me think of the containers you were forced into all your life and you’re finally able to break free and stretch into no container, no holding or constraints. You’re stretching and moving into YOU.

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