Hikaru Komiyama (Ru)

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Hikaru Komiyama (Ru)

@the.littlebeast

How lucky I am to not only know my roots but also get to integrate my heritage in the day to day, weaving it progressively deeper into my identity ☺️🪭 from having felt ashamed that the rice balls and other Japanese food my mom packed me for lunch “smelled weird” to my peers and embarrassed if my friends could hear my grandparents speaking Japanese with me in elementary, I’m so grateful now that my parents persisted in making me go to Saturday Japanese school and raised me in a Japanese-speaking household with the etiquette and customs as well. How cool is it that I get to carry on these traditions in a whole different country as well. Proud, as I should be ☺️🇯🇵

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Hikaru Komiyama (Ru)

@the.littlebeast

Loving reminder that healing doesn’t mean that we no longer experience negative emotions— it’s more so a process of recognizing what coping mechanisms we’ve picked up along the way as we grew up, acknowledging that that was useful then, and figuring out how our new circumstances call for a change in those behaviors so that we can put a stop to the toxic cycles we actively participate in our own lives. And as we unlearn and relearn behaviors, we get another chance to better equip ourselves with tools to address the inevitable ups and downs in life. So while we can’t put an end to heavy, unpleasant situations life brings us, we CAN practice letting a wider range of emotions run through us without causing us to fall apart, suppress and shut down, or find an escape. This year has felt so heavy on my heart but through it all, I can recognize that each time I’ve felt a depressive episode pulling me into a hole, I’ve managed to barely avoid that certain threshold that makes it extra difficult to get out of, I’ve been slightly less suicidal over the course of the past two years, and I’m slowly starting to receive help and love without compensating my own perception of inner strength and competence. So so incredibly grateful that I have my people and YOU with every uplifting message you send my way to help keep me going. We’re slowly but surely evolving and healing through it all ❤️‍🩹💛✨ #LoveBigLiveBig