Matty Castro

“I benefit from moving my body. Anything that I experience as stagnating feels counterproductive. That means that when I’m feeling challenged, I take a walk. I do the dishes. I get my body moving any way I can to discharge the physiological energy associated with my feelings. When I try to ease my feelings by relaxing—reading a book (my favorite hobby) or taking a bath—it actually puts me more on edge.”
― Nicole LePera, How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

“But maybe that’s what happens once the fighting stops, to a man who knows nothing but fighting. He fights himself.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Not everyone is treated with such respect. But whenever my father sang, all the birds in the area would fall silent and listen. His voice was that beautiful, high and clear and so filled with life it made you want to laugh and cry at the same time.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“We might not like all parts of who we are, and yet they exist and must be acknowledged.”
― Nicole LePera, How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self