When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal

by Brianna Wiest

You are destined for what you most desire.

The truths that pull you deeply do so for a reason.

You are inching closer toward the life that was always meant to be yours, but the first step in enacting it completely is knowing that it’s a...

It often begins with allowing yourself to enjoy something small, because you deserve that. It grows when you allow yourself to care for yourself, because you deserve that, too.

It’s not that nothing bad can ever happen, but that we won’t reject all of the goodness that still exists even if it does.

It’s not that you’re not trying hard enough, but that you’re too attached to things that aren’t right for you.

you’re going to have to learn to prioritize what your future self will thank you for.

Stop waiting for perfect circumstances.

You can’t exist in a perma-state of waiting for something outside of you to shift before you feel like you have the green light to shift something within.

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

Getting to your maximum potential means creating a daily routine that makes you feel most like yourself, where your activities, commitments and decisions reflect your values, and what your future self would thank you for doing.

The way you use your energy each day plants the seeds of the harvest you’ll reap in the future.

Instead of waiting for the perfect moment to arise, consider instead that the time you have each day is like having a set amount of money in a bank account that expires at the end of each day. What you don’t use, you lose.

Stop thinking you’re so out of the ordinary.

You’re special, but you’re not alone.

Stop thinking short-term.

Stop assuming you always know best.

Stop underestimating the power of inner work.

When you commit to working on yourself, that effort radiates out and touches everything and everyone around you. So commit to growth. Commit to becoming better. Decide that you’re ready to expand your heart past its current perimeters.

Stop playing down your dreams.

boldness often tells you what you’re actually capable of, though you might not yet believe it.

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

The virtue of you even being willing to consider it means that it’s somewhere within your realm of possibility already. It’s just a matter of fi...

Anger is the healthy response to injustice, or a boundary being crossed. Grief is the healthy response to loss. Jealousy is the healthy response to seeing someone else pursue what you are resisting. Likewise, discomfort is the healthy response to knowing it’s time to make a change. Discomfort is not trying to punish you, it’s trying to help you.

Discomfort is an experience most people are not willing to face or feel. This is why their lives stay as they are.

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

There are very few choices in life that we can’t amend or at least adjust as we go on. The world does not punish us for choosing one thing over another, we punish ourselves out of fear and desire to conform to the most simple, unchallenging path.

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

We don’t lose relationships because we’re not worthy of them, we lose them because we’re mismatched to them.

If you’re not doubting your next step, it’s not the right step.

There is no point after which all of your worries will dissolve and your life will become magically effortless and you’ll be happy forevermore.

It’s usually the people who are the most at peace who have also been through the worst that life could offer them.

People who are resilient find the silver lining in anything.

The most impactful thing that emotionally resilient people do is adapt.

Though you cannot always control what you feel, you can control how you respond, and in that response, you can find your freedom.

That, right there, is the magic of heartbreak: it forces you to be a different person. Unless you want to mourn forever, you have to change.

It is never the right time until it is the right person.

Uncertainty is a breeding ground for life’s greatest moments and most epic possibilities.

The reality is that you already are that best version of yourself.

Nobody expects as much of you as you do of yourself.

You cannot spend the entirety of your life desperately and exhaustedly seeking. You must make time to simply be.

Worth is not something we earn, but something we remember as we cultivate our own care and approval.

Even if all you did today was keep breathing, you did enough.

When life offers you the opportunity to change course, you should take it.

when life gives us an opportunity to change, it’s almost always because change is needed.

When you have to try so hard to convince yourself that something is right, it’s almost always because deep down, you know that something is wrong.

When we’re on the right path, it simply is.

When life gives you an opportunity to change, when a fork opens up in the road, when the detour becomes the destination, when you’re given something greater than you’d know to ask for—it’s not a coincidence.

When you heal one part of your life, it tends to radiate out and touch all of the others.

You can both acknowledge what needs to change while doing it at a safe pace.