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“Connection will hold you over when nothing else can.”

“Perfectionist intellectually understand that they cannot change the past, but that doesn’t stop them from trying to change the fact that the past had an impact on them. …You accept the event and reject the impact. You say some version of “Yes, that happened but I’m fine.””
If yall had a penny for every time I’ve said that, you would be eligible for retirement at 25.

“Power lies in understanding that whatever you feel, you have agency over every moment in your life. The exception to the rule is trauma.”
🚬Oh no, here we go.

“We love to think in binary ways. Were depressed (damn it!), or we’re not depressed (phew!). Mental health doesn’t work like that.”
Plot twist: we all are a little sick in the head (knew it)

“There’s nothing fixed in the matters of the mind and heart.”
-Dr. Harriet Lerner

“You can be angry and full of love. You can be grateful and want more. …You are allowed to want more and get it. Wanting more is healthy. Your desires are real and important, and they don’t have to make sense to anyone other than you.”
🎤

“As Tolle puts it, “You are a presence in the world, and that is all you ever need to be.” On the day you were born, you were worthy of all the love, joy, freedom, connection, and dignity in the world simply because you were in it.” 🫵🏻I’m talking to you besties

“We use the word perfect to emphasize completeness, not lack of flaw.”