“I come as one, but I stand as 10,000″

“Self love is the new relationship goals”

“The fight between your mind and your heart aint no joke.”

“In today’s America, we tend to think of healing as something binary: either we’re broken or we’re healed from that brokenness. But that’s not how healing operates, and it’s almost never how human growth works. More often, healing and growth take place on a continuum, with innumerable points between utter brokenness and total health.”

“You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.”

“Trauma is also a wordless story our body tells itself about what is safe and what is a threat.”

“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable. That’s why it loves perfectionists—it’s so easy to keep us quiet. If we cultivate enough awareness about shame to name it and speak to it, we’ve basically cut it off at the knees. Shame hates having words wrapped around it. If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.”