How to Come Alive Again Quotes

“Treat yourself well. Care for yourself. Show yourself slow and deliberate gentle attention. Demonstrate that you're worth this kind of attention, because you are.”
― Beth McColl, How to Come Alive Again: A guide to killing your monsters

“To live a better life, you really just have to get stuck into the failure, and the mess, and the confusion, and the hell of what's happening right now. You have to get more familiar with failure. You have to take failure to a show. You have to buy it a steak and kiss it on the mouth. That's how you heal. That's how you make better decisions in the future. So you have to apply for a boat load of jobs. And you have to get turned down for a boat load of jobs. You have to relapse in your recovery and you have to fall all the way back down again. We all do it and we all suffer and hate ourselves and declare ourselves fuck ups, and losers, and space wasters, and nonsense cobblers, and mistake squids, and we lie down on the floor and give up for awhile. And then sometime later, when the shame and the sadness have worn off a bit and we start to feel a bit peckish, we get up, dust off, and we go get 40 chicken nuggets and start the process all over again. And this time we know more. We know where the traps are and we know more of what we're up against. And we're tougher this time around.”
― Beth McColl, How to Come Alive Again: A guide to killing your monsters

“I know now that my happiness has nothing to do with being quiet and pliant and agreeable. My happiness is an unapologetic animal. A growing, shifting, changing thing. A thing that wants my life to glow.”
― Beth McColl, How to Come Alive Again: A guide to killing your monsters