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Grace for Who You Had to Be
Stop punishing yourself for who you had to be to survive. For the walls you built because you didn’t feel safe. For the hurt you hid under anger because vulnerability would’ve made everything worse. You made it. Give yourself credit for surviving. The fact that you’re still here is proof your life isn’t in vain.…
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Your Past Is A Resource
It just seems ridiculous to survive our past and not build from it. I’m not saying I’ve had that perspective all of my life, not even most of my life – I wish. Some of us made it out when others didn’t. That alone is reason enough to build from it. It’s Working taught us…
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You Can’t Heal What You Won’t Face
You can’t get to the sweet and juicy without peeling the rind first. The past is the rind. And most of us are walking around hungry because we won’t do the work to get through it. Sometimes surviving the past isn’t enough, and I don’t think the core of our being ever allows us to…
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You vs. You
The most unfair thing you can ever do to yourself is compare you (the only you in the world might I add) to someone else. Don’t underestimate what it cost to be you, because that price isn’t cheap. Some of us had to go through years of being put-down before we gained our current confidence.…
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Worth Sticking Around For
When you’re on the journey to better there’s a lot of things going on, and if you’re like me you got more going on inwardly than externally. So how do you keep moving forward when you’re battling with the voices in your head, doubt and life doing what life does all at the same time?…
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Bubbling Beneath the Surface
When you’re in the thick of one of life’s what the hells it can be hard to see any good that could come out of it. All you know is what needs to happen and nothing else really matters. If you think about it…I mean really think about it…Almost everything important that you know about life stemmed…