When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal

by Brianna Wiest

The most precious, important thing that you have in your life is your energy. It is not your time that is limited, it is your energy. What you give it to each day is what you will create more and more of in your life. What you give your time to is what will define your existence.

protect your energy more fiercely than anything else.

you are accepting the love you think you’re worthy of.

Do not believe everything that you think.

When we feel most stuck, it is often because we are trying to decipher who we really are by piecing together images we assume others have of us. What we don’t realize is that there is not just one, singular version of us that exists. There’s our experience of ourselves, and then the kaleidoscope of ways we are perceived by others. When we spend all of our lives trying to manage those perceptions, we become completely lost within them.

Nobody—not one single person alive—is thinking about you more than you are thinking about yourself.

Whew, my anxious inner monologue needed to read this.

The reality is that you exist in so many different forms and images and beliefs and stories—and yet, the only one that is ever really going to matter is the one you tell yourself.

At the heart of discomfort is the potential for great wisdom.

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

When you approach other people imagining that they at least have a relatively positive view of you, it changes the way you act around them. Instead of acting on the defense, you can connect, knowing

You also attach your worth to something temporary, when your purpose is an infinite expression of your own nature.

Make the best of this day. Make the best of the opportunities you have. Make the best of your current relationships. Make the best of yourself — right here, and

now. “The best” doesn’t mean “the most

If you don’t acknowledge someone else’s progress, you can’t acknowledge your own. If you villainize someone else’s success, you resist your own. If you sum someone up by their worst traits, you

We aren’t meant to have the exact same circle of friends and acquaintances for the entirety of our lives.

What’s meant for you will come to you, and it will stay with you for as long as it needs to.

emotionally resilient people journal, speak with a therapist or trusted friend, or express their experience in some other way that validates it.

Instead of thinking that you don’t want to exercise, think about how much better you’ll feel after you do, or how accomplished you’ll feel at the end of the week.

You may believe that it has been your rational mind that’s gotten you where you are today, but it’s truly been a thousand unknowns that have come to life, little feelings that you followed despite everything that told you not to, little urges that were calling you into an entirely different world—one you could not yet see, but inevitably knew would be true.