Ash Mattys

“A confrontation, most importantly one with ourselves, is what needs to take place in order for true awareness, change, and healing to occur.”
― Kristina Smeriglio, Falling Into Fire

“Curiosity and passion are the enemies of anxiety. Even when I fell into anxiety, if I get curious enough about something outside of me it can help pull me out. Music, art, film, nature, conversation, words. Find passion as large as your fear. The way out of your mind is via the world.”
― Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

“We’ve been complicit—not out of malice but because we have been groomed and raised in a system of racial injustice that has relied on our obliviousness and/or apathy to maintain its uninterrupted operation”
― Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

“Biology does not make a man a father--nor a woman a mother. We are what we do.”
― Andrew Vachss, Another Chance to Get It Right