“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
“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
“Forget about creating a routine. You have to focus on finding your rhythm.” With routines you are either on track or not. With rhythm you can skip a beat and still get back in the groove.”
― How to Keep House While Drowning
― How to Keep House While Drowning
“thank you for your concern, but I am not taking any feedback on this issue right now.” Or my personal favorite: “The key for me being able to begin to run a functioning home was when I stopped talking to myself the way you are talking to me right now.”
― How to Keep House While Drowning
― How to Keep House While Drowning
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