Claire Mccarthy

“Oh darling, your wild and untameable has been the best part of you all along. Welcome home.”
― Nikki rowe

“When we feel joy, it is a place of incredible vulnerability—it’s beauty and fragility and deep gratitude and impermanence all wrapped up in one experience. When we can’t tolerate that level of vulnerability, joy actually becomes foreboding, and we immediately move to self-protection. It’s as if we grab vulnerability by the shoulders and say, “You will not catch me off guard. You will not sucker-punch me with pain. I will be prepared and ready for you.”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

“Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death.”
― Frederick Douglass

“You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist