“Hospitality is holding space for another person to be seen and heard and loved. It’s giving someone a place to be when they’d otherwise be alone. It’s, as my friend Sibyl says, when someone leaves your home feeling better about themselves, not better about you.”
― I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
― I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
“I know now that I'm strong enough, brave enough, whole enough to hold it all - how it was and how it ended. What I got wrong, what I made right, who I was, who I wasn't, who I've yet to become. What I miss, what was lost, what's still unfolding. I'm not perfect or shiny or bulletproof. The story of my life is not a fairy tale. It's not a horror story. It's just a story like most stories - dark and light and beautiful and terrible and still being written.”
― I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
― I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
“If anger is active and powerful, grief and sadness are tender, vulnerable. Anger puts us back in the power position, while grief lays us bare, like letting ourselves lie down on a sidewalk, knowing we could get stepped on, crushed. Grief gives up the pretense of control.”
― I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
― I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
“What does it mean to show up as deeply myself right now? What does it mean to give my whole self to my community instead of only the parts that feel acceptable and easy?”
― I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
― I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
“I’m learning to choose myself instead of giving the best of myself to people and relationships and institutions. Loyalty to myself. Belonging to myself. Looking for joy just for myself. I need a disproportionate amount of care right now, and the one who is responsible for that care is me. I can’t assume that someone else will do it; it’s my responsibility to create a rhythm for my life that nurtures me, that brings me joy, that allows me to flourish, even given the weight of things I’m carrying.”
― I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
― I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
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