“I am compassionate with myself when I’m not perfect. Recovery is not linear.”Tagged: Self-Compassion, Recovery, Quote of the Moment
“I remind myself as many times as I need to that gradual change is more likely to be permanent than dramatic change.”Tagged: Change, Breaking Habits, Self-Growth
“I am following that shadowy voice inside, this much I know for sure.”Tagged: Inner Voice, Damon, Voice From Within, Clusters of Hidden Personalities, Certain Voices
“The way to get rid of shame is to pull it out of the dark and talk about it, which is exactly the opposite thing you feel like doing when you experience shame.”Tagged: Trump, Body Image
“I'm not asking you to be kind to a politician’s body because the politician deserves it, but rather, because everyone else does.”Tagged: body shaming, Body Image, Eating Disorder, Fatphobia, Bodies
“We are young enough that driving in these early morning hours still feels like we are getting away with something.”Tagged: Cars, Driving, Americana, 20-Somethings, Dashboard confessional
“I have the privilege to have a lot of control over my life and what I spend time doing.”Tagged: 5 things, Stream of Consciousness, Privilege, Stress
“My brain is doing what my brain is supposed to do and looking for predators. It doesn’t want me to brush all these threats off, it wants me to survive and in what kind of quality is an afterthought.”Tagged: Anxiety, Insomnia, yoga, Predators, Evolution
“I just don’t for a second, in any possible universe, believe there is an all-knowing creature who is going to scoff at me in the afterlife.”Tagged: God, Heaven, Redemption, Healing, The Afterlife
“desire is something you can fake and make and mold and carve Desire creates more desires and the quickest way to feel desired is to be someone who desires.”Tagged: Poetry, Sex and Love, Desire
“The more work I do on myself, the more work I notice there is still left to do. There are no before and after stories in life because this isn’t the afterlife, while we are on earth we will always have more and more challenges to overcome.”Tagged: Body Image, Self-Love, Mental Health, Fixing Your Brain
“It’s a fantasy to be perfect out of the gate or perfect after a few years, but mastery takes a lot of work and it takes working every day at it.”Tagged: Writing, How to be a writer
“The news station asked the student for information, to which the student replied that he had their station on and was trying to figure out what was happening himself.”Tagged: columbine, Mass Shootings, school shootings
“My comfort with imperfection helps me create grow as a writer slash human being. I can (cautiously) follow my artistic instinct even though it feels cringey and scary to put myself out there.”Tagged: Art, Writing, Perfection, Perfectionism, How to be a writer
“In our relationships and interactions with ourselves and others, we see what we want to see.”Tagged: Love, Self-Love, Self-Image
“I just thought the trip was a gift. It was something beautiful we made for ourselves. No one told us to go or gave us money or even told us how to be careful.”Tagged: Mountains, Colorado, Trips, Vacations, Prose