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Your life isn’t out to get you. It’s out to be healed. Your wounds don’t want to harm you; they’re tugging at you because you deserve relief. The journey of reclaiming yourself and taking charge of your own life is a long one, an ongoing process.
Vienna Pharaon • The Origins of You: How Breaking Family Patterns Can Liberate the Way We Live and Love
What if healing yourself is not fixing an attitude, not changing an opinion, not altering an aesthetic, but shifting a presence, an awareness, an energy?
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Grief allows you to let go of something you’ve lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in its place.
Daniel J. Siegel • Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
Because sooner or later, you’re going to go an hour and realize you didn’t think about them, or it. Then a day, then a week…and then years and swaths of your life drift by and everything you thought would break you becomes a distant memory, something you look back at and smile. Everything you lose becomes something you are profoundly grateful for.
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We could say the pain
was a block so great
it could not be moved.
We could say love
did not try to move it.
Love simply dissolved the mass
and surrounded it
the way water meets a block of salt,
breaking apart each ionic bond
until every atom of sodium and chloride
is surrounded by molecules of water.
And in this way,
and sooner than you’d think,
the pain was re... See more
was a block so great
it could not be moved.
We could say love
did not try to move it.
Love simply dissolved the mass
and surrounded it
the way water meets a block of salt,
breaking apart each ionic bond
until every atom of sodium and chloride
is surrounded by molecules of water.
And in this way,
and sooner than you’d think,
the pain was re... See more