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"The core of every emotional issue is a belief that it's not okay. It's not the presence of it that's harmful, its the resistance to it that ultimately screws us up"

"Write down what you hate about other people, this is what you need to change about yourself/your life"

"The people who are able to hurt you most are also the people whom you're able to love the most. We aren't profoundly affected by people who aren't already deeply in our hearts"

"Make it your own personal proof that you do not need to be perfect, to be good enough. Ask yourself what you'd do if social media was no object and nobody would know"

"Practice radical acceptance; choose to love your home, and your body, and your work, even if you don't like it all the time. Choose to build your life from a place of gratitude and vision, rather than running from your own fears."

"You've been through some crap. You can look at challenges you currently face and compare them to the ones you thought you'd never get over, you can reassure yourself through your own experience. Life did not get easier, you got smarter."

"Healing is really just letting yourself feel. It is unearthing your traumas and embarrassments and losses, and allowing yourself to have the emotions you could not have in the moment that you were having those experiences. It's letting yourself filter and process what you had to suppress at the time to keep going, maybe even to survive."