“I realized that I only ever wanted to be skinny because I wanted to be loved and happy. But I already have that. Skinny hasn’t seemed very important to me since then.”
― How to Keep House While Drowning
― How to Keep House While Drowning
“That is the life-changing result of internalizing that you do not exist to serve your space, your space exists to serve you.”
― How to Keep House While Drowning
― How to Keep House While Drowning
“the key to juggling is to know that some of the balls you have in the air are made of plastic & some are made of glass. When you are struggling to function, it’s important to identify what are your glass balls.”
― How to Keep House While Drowning
― How to Keep House While Drowning
“You don’t exist to serve your space; your space exists to serve you.”
― How to Keep House While Drowning
― How to Keep House While Drowning
“I so often look back on these seasons of limping through and say to myself with tenderness, “Wow, I was really doing the best I could with what I had.” And that’s the funny thing about doing your best; it never feels like your best at the time. In fact, it almost always feels like failing when you’re in it.”
― How to Keep House While Drowning
― How to Keep House While Drowning
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