Healing

"If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive."

— Brené Brown

“You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan. No plan at all. You know why? Because life cannot be planned...You can’t go wrong with no plans. We don’t need to make a plan for anything. It doesn’t matter what will happen next. Even if the country gets destroyed or sold out, nobody cares. Got it?”

— Parasite

"There might be days where you are certain you are over it and there might be days you feel everything all over again. But no matter the day, there will still be songs to listen to. And when you don’t feel like singing, there will still be rhythms to breathe to, for grace is still at work in you."

— Morgan Harper Nichols

“I treat myself like I would my daughter. I brush her hair, wash her laundry, tuck her in goodnight. Most importantly, I feed her. I do not punish her. I do not berate her, leave tears staining her face. I do not leave her alone. I know she deserves more. I know I deserve more.”

— I Know I Deserve More, Michelle K

"In order to lead a happy life I'm gonna have to disappoint my parents a bit."

“Sometimes, all you need is permission to feel. Sometimes, what causes the most pain is actually the attempt to resist feeling, or the shame that grows up like thorns around it.”

— Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

“A thought occurred to me today – so obvious, so always obvious! It was absurd to suddenly comprehend it for the first time – I felt rather giddy, a little hysterical: – There is nothing, nothing that stops me from doing anything except myself… What is to prevent me from just picking up and taking off?”

— Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks