“I care more about their feelings, their needs, their boundaries, than I care about how much that care takes from me. How much it hurts to be an endless font of care.”— Ella Dawson, patreon.com
“If internalizers were shamed for their sensitive emotions during childhood, as adults they may be embarrassed to show any deep emotion. They may say “I’m sorry” when they start crying in a therapist’s office, as though they should be able to talk about their emotional pain without showing it. Some e…”— Lindsay C. Gibson, amazon.com
“Trauma creates the fundamental belief that we must betray who we are in order to survive.”— Dr. Nicole LePera, amazon.com
“I want to carry what’s mine to carry, claiming my life experiences, my war wounds, instead of wishing I’d had some other story.”— Paula McLain, nytimes.com
“We all want purpose and connection. Tell me what breaks your heart, and I'll point you toward both.”— Glennon Doyle, amazon.com
“You have been through so much at the hands of this world, but it has never defeated you.”— Bianca Sparacino, facebook.com
“So yeah, it's a war. It's the goddamn fight of my life and you started it.”— Taylor Swift, open.spotify.com
“When exposed to a moving toy or a strange room, babies with cloth mothers rushed to them, buried their faces in the soft fabric and relaxed. Their peers, with only wire mothers, shook in terror against the wall. Left alone for months with only wire mothers, they pined away, staring at the world with…”— Barbara Smuts, nytimes.com
“It wouldn't be helpful for me to like, assign trauma to it because of the objective truth of it.”— Olivia Gatwood, podcasts.apple.com
“Watching the vaccine being administered delivers a shot of hope. We might finally be getting somewhere.”— Bridget Read, thecut.com
“At first it felt awkward; this is not who we are. But week after week, one by one, we shared our lives with each other, as if our togetherness were natural.”— Melissa Valentine, thecut.com
“I draw completely for myself, but I think other people can learn a lot from my drawings about me. I even draw to find out about me.”— Chanel Miller, marieclaire.com
“Sometimes, bad things happen to people, and they never get better. People just do their best to deal with the pain.”— Bernard Boo, denofgeek.com
“In a time when we must endure a virus that brings death, we can choose to become more alive than ever. Let’s not squander this gift to heal and emerge from our cocoons transformed. Gentle peace.”— Kitty O'Meara, the-daily-round.com
“You aren’t going to get any better if you stubbornly stay in this place you’ve been calling your comfort zone even though you aren’t really comfortable at all.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“If you leave that means you’re going to arrive. If one door closes, another one opens. It’s a continual cycle of renewal, of shedding one’s skin to come out a rawer, stronger version of yourself.”— Koty Neelis, medium.com