When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal

by Brianna Wiest

If you get your heart smashed into a million pieces, you get your heart smashed.

If you say the wrong thing, you say th...

Know that your feelings are valid and maybe they’re trying to move you somewhere you’ve never been before.

Maybe you will give someone else permission to be their honest selves. Maybe you will be their living proof that more is possible. Maybe you will become the kind of guide for others that you yourself never had.

That's something to look up too

Not even your worst critics are judging you as much as you are judging yourself.

themselves. “Other people most likely think I’m doing better than I think I am.”

success is a self-evident

Instead of acting on the defense, you can connect, knowing

Your job pays the bills. Your purpose gives meaning to your life.

Our purpose is just to be alive.

place. “I do not need to feel guilty over what I cannot control.”

Guilting yourself doesn’t make you a better person, it makes you a bitter person,

Our worlds merge and collide, and sometimes, they

We

Healing is to accept hurting as part of being human.

You can’t lose your power.

It’s having the courage to hurt, and

Stop waiting for perfect circumstances.

Perfect circumstances do not exist.

You have to stop waiting for perfect circumstances. You have to create them instead.

Your maximum potential is creating a life that is peaceful and meaningful to you. It is doing less, but

The

So instead of trying to convince yourself not to care about anyone else’s opinion (because honestly, you should care about what some people think)

What you don’t use, you

But we’re all still human.

You’re special, but

It’s not just what would feel good now, but also what you’ll thank yourself for later.

Let life surprise you. Let experts help you.

You do not have all the answers, even if you have many of them. Nobody does. Life is an unfolding.

Are you willing to change your mind? Are you willing to change your life?

If you’re willing to believe that something might be possible for you — it already is.

Stop thinking that the worst possible outcome is you making a wrong choice.

A misstep isn’t the worst thing that can happen. Refusing to move forward is.

What if before you can gain clarity, you simply need rest?

I hope you will slowly learn that you can live without a problem to solve or mountain to climb.

Your life is waiting on the other side.

You feel slightly embarrassed of your past self.

Please know that nobody is, or ever was, judging

You are doing a really good job sorting through some really heavy stuff.

Before you’ll know what’s right, you’ll know what’s wrong.

You’re becoming ambitious in the ways that truly matter — your heart, soul, and

It’s a marathon, not

That type of connection, though? It’s not connection. It’s hunger. It’s vanity. It’s attachment.

You are part of every person you’ve ever loved. You are a part of every place you’ve ever been.

Our true selves. Our real selves.

The selves that know we don’t need 100 friends to be fulfilled. We don’t even need 10.

Try to find love in the fact that maybe you’re being given an opportunity to be introduced to yourself so that you might be able to introduce that person to someone else. And maybe that was the piece that was missing all along.

Lean into how you feel.

Accept it, even if you don’t like it.

I dislike how I look, and after a lifelong battle to accept myself, I am feeling hopeless that I will ever find peace.