“Feeling the pain is the first step toward healing the pain. The longer we avoid the feeling, the more we delay our healing. We can numb it, ignore it, or pretend it doesn’t exist, but all those options lead to an eventual breakdown, not a breakthrough.”
― It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered
― It's Not Supposed to Be This Way: Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered
“Let today be the day you are kind to yourself and focus on believing what is beautiful and true. And this does not mean you ignore your imperfections. It means, in spite of them, you believe there is beauty to you.”
― All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living
― All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living
“My drag is less about looking like a woman and more about saying F.U. to the cult of systematic masculinity I was bombarded with as a little boy.”
― GuRu
― GuRu
“Drag for me has always been my superhero costume.”
― GuRu
― GuRu
“A few years ago, on a particularly cold autumn day, I found myself in a pit of self-doubt. Yet I was beginning to realize that if I ever wanted to grow, I couldn’t stay there. I realized that I could spend the rest of my life doubting myself, or I could make the brave decision to work through self-doubt and allow myself to be stretched in ways I had not been before.
Excerpt From: Morgan Harper Nichols. “All Along You Were Blooming.” iBooks.”
― All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living
Excerpt From: Morgan Harper Nichols. “All Along You Were Blooming.” iBooks.”
― All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living
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