When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal

When you lose your inner power, it’s not really gone. It’s just buried under the belief that there is something beyond you that has the capacity to limit what your life will become. It’s been hollowed out from thinking that whatever disrupted you will block your path forever.

When you’re watching a movie, you don’t spend the whole hour and a half just waiting for the ending, for the final answers. You understand that each piece of the story has meaning, each part is there to be enjoyed, savored, metabolized. You don’t expect all of the strings to pull together and for everything to make sense right away, but you remain

We are taking ourselves up on an opportunity to do what is right as opposed to what is easy. We are choosing to do what is important over what is yet another way to numb and cope with the discomfort.

It is not that your life can never be exciting, just that most of us are under the unrealistic delusion that everything must be a peak experience all of the time. This leads us to a process of constantly uprooting, which is the self-sabotaging behavior of planting seeds, sprouting them, and then starting all over again. What we need is not always t

Instead of waiting for the perfect moment to arise, consider instead that the time you have each day is like having a set amount of money in a bank account that expires at the end of each day. What you don’t use, you lose.

If you do not know what you want, start with what you’re most afraid of. You might not know what you desire, but absolutely everyone knows what scares them. What is the opposite of that fear? What is the alternative outcome to your worst-case scenario? What is the best possible outcome for the thing that scares you most? That is what you want.

When you imagine a potential outcome for your life, what you’re really envisioning is a solution to a past experience, a feeling you’ve had before and would like to maintain. What you cannot account for are the things that you wouldn’t think to ask for, because you don’t know that you want them. Real growth requires genuine exploration, a period of

The truth is that to some people, you are the beauty standard. To others, you are simply overlooked. To some, you are a genius at your craft. To others, you are irrelevant. To some, you are an incredible friend. To others, you are a complete stranger. To some, you are a life partner. To others, you are not someone they’d even date. To some, you are

Making a home within yourself is knowing you will always be okay not because everything will go the way you initially planned, but because you will adapt even if it doesn’t.