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“I was okay just a moment ago. I will learn how to be okay again.”
― We Are Okay
― We Are Okay
“What I failed to realize at the time is that when we try to resist feeling something painful, we often protract the very pain we’re trying to avoid.”
― It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
― It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
“It’s a dark place, not knowing.
It’s difficult to surrender to.
But I guess it’s where we live most of the time. I guess it’s where we all live, so maybe it doesn’t have to be so lonely. Maybe I can settle into it, cozy up to it, make a home inside uncertainty.”
― We Are Okay
It’s difficult to surrender to.
But I guess it’s where we live most of the time. I guess it’s where we all live, so maybe it doesn’t have to be so lonely. Maybe I can settle into it, cozy up to it, make a home inside uncertainty.”
― We Are Okay
“you look at me and cry
everything hurts
i hold you and whisper
but everything can heal”
― Milk and honey
everything hurts
i hold you and whisper
but everything can heal”
― Milk and honey
“I wonder if there's a secret current that connects people who have lost something. Not in the way that everyone loses something, but in the way that undoes your life, undoes your self, so that when you look at your face it isn't yours anymore.”
― We Are Okay
― We Are Okay
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