How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t Quotes

“We don't get better when the weather is calm and things are all unicorns farting rainbows. We get better when we fall apart and pick the pieces back up.”
― Andrea Owen, How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t

“First, let’s pretend for a minute. Let’s say that, as the imposter complex voice tells you, you really do have no idea what you’re doing, you actually are fooling everyone, and it’s true you are in fact a big, giant fraud. Okay, seriously think about what I just said. That would take an immense amount of work. That’s pulling off a major heist, like stealing the Queen of England’s entire hat collection or something.”
― Andrea Owen, How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t

“The goal here is to realize you’re doing it so you can immediately choose not to fall down the rabbit hole of feeling like the biggest failure that ever graced this planet.”
― Andrea Owen, How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t: 14 Habits that Are Holding You Back from Happiness

“What are your specific fears about that? Why you’re hiding out has a lot to do with the answers to these questions, and most of the time (if not always) the fears are irrational, but over time they’ve become your truth.”
― Andrea Owen, How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t: 14 Habits that Are Holding You Back from Happiness

“You can also write a letter of apology to yourself. Go on, you deserve it. Tell yourself why you should have been kinder to yourself, and share your intention of how to change things in the future.”
― Andrea Owen, How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t: 14 Habits that Are Holding You Back from Happiness

“All of this work doesn’t matter if you aren’t clear on who you are, what you’re after, and what it looks like on a day-to-day basis.”
― Andrea Owen, How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t: 14 Habits that Are Holding You Back from Happiness

“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.”
― Andrea Owen, How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t: 14 Habits that Are Holding You Back from Happiness

“However, what I’ve come to know for sure is that happiness, and even peace and freedom, are stifled and choked to death if you don’t let all the other feelings and experiences pass through too. All the “harder” things we push down and run away from are actually the key to healing and joy.”
― Andrea Owen, How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t: 14 Habits that Are Holding You Back from Happiness

“most common instigators of self-criticism. Family”
― Andrea Owen, How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t: 14 Habits that Are Holding You Back from Happiness

“Showing up is being willing to engage with something uncomfortable when you’d rather back off and say, “NOPE!” When you show up, you allow yourself to feel scared and awkward and out of your element. But you also feel inspired! You dig deep, do the work, and feel brave all at the same time. That’s what it means to show up.”
― Andrea Owen, How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t: 14 Habits that Are Holding You Back from Happiness

“Showing up is being willing to engage with something uncomfortable when you’d rather back off and say, “NOPE!”
― Andrea Owen, How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t: 14 Habits that Are Holding You Back from Happiness

“Figure out where you stumble the most and where you have room to improve, catch yourself when you see these behaviors arise, implement new strategies as you learn them, and let that be enough. And don’t forget to be kind to yourself along the way!”
― Andrea Owen, How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t: 14 Habits that Are Holding You Back from Happiness

“That overthinking thing is called “over-identification,” and it refers to our tendency to hyper-examine everything we do. With smart, high-achieving women, this happens more often than not.”
― Andrea Owen, How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t: 14 Habits that Are Holding You Back from Happiness

“And if you just said you don’t have time to commit, I’ll tell you what you’ll end up having time for: feeling shitty. You do have time. You just have to prioritize.”
― Andrea Owen, How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t: 14 Habits that Are Holding You Back from Happiness

“If more people were nicer to themselves, the whole world would change.”
― Andrea Owen, How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t: 14 Habits that Are Holding You Back from Happiness