Lux

“I know you want to drown yourself in the sadness. It’s comforting to let it surround you, heart pulsing, lungs aching as you feel it overwhelm every inch of your skin and diffuse into your cells. But I hope you know sadness
is a revolving door. once you’re in it, letting the sadness take you around and around and around, it won’t stop on its own. You’ll just keep going around and around and around. That’s why you need to fight to stop it, fight to stop spinning, fight to get out. Get out of that infinite sadness.”
― Caroline Kaufman, Light Filters in: Poems

“if you think you are drowning,
just remember:

you float in water.”
― Caroline Kaufman, Light Filters in: Poems

“Daughters of narcissistic mothers absorb the message “I am valued for what I do, rather than for who I am.”
― Karyl McBride, Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers

“for all of our wounds will be healed with time.”
― Caroline Kaufman, Light Filters In: Poems