Avoiding your triggers isn’t healing. Healing happens when you’re triggered, and you’re able to move through the pain, the pattern, and the story, and walk your way to a different ending.
~ Vienna Pharaon
If You Aren’t Grateful
If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more?
~ Roy T. Bennett
You Don’t Need to Prove Yourself to Anyone.
You don’t need to prove yourself to anyone. You don’t need to spend your energy trying to earn other’s acceptance or waste your time trying to explain yourself. You don’t need to justify your ideas to others who won’t understand… My beautiful friend, just be you. Spend your time doing your thing. Spend your energy learning and growing. Pour yourself into your ideas and dreams and let go of what others are saying…. Because in the end, it just doesn’t matter what they think — it only matters what you think.
~ Nikki Banas
I Have Not Been Myself for a Long Time
I have not been myself for a long time, and even I pretended not to notice, along with everyone else. It’s a lonely place to be. Sometimes we abandon ourselves because that’s the pattern we’ve always known, and it’s toxic as hell, but we keep doing it. It’s hard to understand, but sometimes familiar patterns feel like love, and God…. I’ve been trying to love myself for my whole life. And I’m telling you now, the hardest thing I’ve ever done is unlearn all those patterns and teach myself the right way to love. I’m starting with myself. It hurts a lot, but I have faith that one day it won’t.
~ Stephanie Bennett-Henry
