Identity

Every little part of my life meant something, I just didn’t know it at the time

Thought Catalog • From Failure to Fresh Start

we uncover a level of fatigue we didn’t know we carried, an existential exhaustion that stems from decades of running, chasing, doing, seeking, and adhering to the structures and the schedules laid out by a world that has gone mad.

Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote

“All art,” he wrote, “is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.”

The Private Life: On James Baldwin - The Paris Review

You will always belong anywhere you show up as yourself and talk about yourself and your work in a real way

Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness

I learned how to say the right thing or show up in the right way. I became an expert fitter-in, a chameleon. And a very lonely stranger to myself.

Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness

Grief for the girl who never belonged anywhere and a longing to figure out who I was, what I liked, what I believed in, and where I wanted to go

Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness

Question: How can I judge myself less harshly and appreciate myself more?

Ram Dass on self-judgment:

I think that part of it is observing oneself more impersonally. I often use this image, which I think I have used already, but let me say it again. That when you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some... See more