‘I’ve always been hated.’ There. That was it. She’d said out loud the thing she’d been most ashamed of for years; the thing that she’d been carrying with her, secretly, hoping no one else would notice. I knew this was a pivotal moment in her journey

“Not many people can confront the truth about themselves. If they did they’d run a mile, would take an immediate and profound dislike to the person in whose skin they’d learned to sit quite tolerably all these years.”

The first step in healing anything is taking full accountability. It is no longer being in denial about the honest truth of your life and yourself. It does not matter what your life looks like on the outside; it is how you feel about it on the inside. It is not okay to be constantly stressed, panicked, and unhappy. Something is wrong, and the longe

The good news is, the moment of suffering—when you’re in pain—is a moment of truth. It is a moment where you’re forced to embrace reality the way it actually is. Then, you can make meaningful change and progress. You can only make progress when you’re starting with the truth.

The Truth is that you are already perfect. Something that’s perfect can’t be improved upon or fixed because there’s nothing broken.