You don't have to prove to anyone just how tough you are. You are still here, and you are still alive despite all of life's storms and tornados and hurricanes. You have weathered them all like a grand old oak tree, and you are still here.You are still alive. And if that isn't tough, I don't know wha…
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Your Soul is a River
This is a book about the journey of healing from trauma and becoming whole again. Directions: apply to your soul gently, whilst sitting under the stars.
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Your spine is stronger than granite. You have no reason to act like it doesn't exist.
They only succeed in stealing your voice if you give them permission by silencing yourself.
You owe no one an explanation, a reason, a defence for who you become after you survive.
Remember that your body is a vessel for the wild, extraordinary thing that lives inside you.
Remember that you are the ocean. And no one, not even the moon itself is allowed to control your glorious, beautiful tides.
You have grown so much because you have quietly realized you aren't just teardrops. You are an ocean.
All the darkness of the night is no match for a single candle that refuses to die out.
Stars always shine brightest seconds before they fall apart.
You see, you may be damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.
And the sun does not shine because someone else wants it to. It shines because that is what it was born to do.
The universe did not breathe star fire into your bones just so you could burn yourself out over someone who treats you like a cigarette break.
Instead aspire to be each other's darkness as much as the light. Be the thing that helps the other shine.
Tell me how to love again when the ashes of my heart and smoke in my chest are evidence that love burns everything it touches.