We all have gifts. Our mission in life is to identify those gifts, refine them and use them meaningfully.
– Mardell Coleman
Start by giving yourself some credit for how far you’ve already come.
The real work isn’t trying to change people. It’s speaking your truth. It’s sharing your feelings and saying what you need. Because the purpose of being assertive and cultivating self-care isn’t to convince someone to be different or to try to achieve a certain outcome. It’s to advocate for yourself regardless of how they respond.
– Daniell Koepke
The other person may not change by you speaking up. But you speaking up ignites a spark inside you that will grow until you no longer allow them to mistreat you. The speaking up is for you.
– Saadia Z. Yunus
We cannot force someone to hear a message they are not ready to receive. But we must never underestimate the power of planting a seed.
Do not justify, apologize for, or rationalize the healthy boundary you are setting. Do not argue. Just set the boundary calmly, firmly, clearly, and respectfully.
– Crystal Andrus
-Peace- It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work.
It means to being in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.
I am better than I used to be.
Better than I was yesterday.
But hopefully not as good as I’ll be tomorrow.
– Marianne Williamson
It is fruitless to wish you had started years ago. In the future you will wish you had started today.
Pain travels through family lines until someone is ready to heal it in themselves. By going through the agony of healing, you no longer past the poison chalice onto the generations that follow. It’s incredibly important and sacred work.
– Stephi Wagner
Sit with your emotions as they arise, feel them, listen to them, appreciate them, but never run from them, because they’ll track you down and haunt you until you are courageous enough to face them and ultimately learn the lessons that they hold.
– Erin Chatters
Some things just aren’t worth a response or your energy. Emotional maturity looks like learning to let things go.
We don’t walk away to teach people a lesson. We walk away because we finally learned ours.
You don’t always attract what you are. You sometimes attract people who are in desperate need of what you are.
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
— Socrates.
When someone tries to trigger you by insulting you or by doing or saying something that irritates you, take a deep breath and switch off your ego. Remember that if you are easily offended, you are easily manipulated.
I am different and it has cost me people, but I am always myself. It is better to lose others than to lose yourself.
Do something today that your future self will thank you for
There’s always something to be thankful for
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings, had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like an artist with no art form, she became dangerous.
― Toni Morrison, Sula
I don’t know how people deal with their moods when
they have no garden, raspberry patch or field to work in.
You can take your angers, frustrations, bewilderments to the earth,
working savagely, working up a sweat and an ache and a great weariness.
The work rinses out the cup of your spirit, leaves it washed and clean
and ready to be freshly filled with new hope. It is one of the reasons
I am addicted to raspberry patches.
The pie is purely symbolic.
– Rachel Pedersen
Grow through what you go through
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities
– Voltaire
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing you don’t put it in a fruit salad.
We keep a potato masher in a drawer because sometimes it’s fun to not be able to open that drawer.
I don’t always carry all the groceries on one arm, but when I do, my keys are in the wrong pocket
Can you fax the offer over to me?
Sorry, I can’t fax from where I live.
Oh, where is that?
2023, I live in 2023.
I like dropping bombshells on my therapist in the last few minutes so it feels like we are ending each session on a cliffhanger
How many therapists does it take to change a light bulb? Just one, but the light bulb must want to
change.
I went to the therapist after my phone died. I just needed an outlet
Patient: I am afraid of the vertical axis
Therapist: Why?
Patient: Yes!
I told the therapist last night I had a nightmare that I was fighting Jason Bourne and Will Hunting she said, “I’m glad that you’re finally battling your Damons
