Losing Myself Brought Me Here Quotes

“I know you do not hear
my anxiety
or see my anxiety,
even when you are
right next to me.
But come inside my mind for a while
and you will see
all I have to do to act
so calm.
So at peace.
You will quickly learn,
it is nowhere near easy.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“What would it look like
to do more than just survive?
What would it feel like
to be truly alive?”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“I want to thank failure.
You taught me resilience.
You taught me to hope.
But most importantly
you taught me that things
will not always go my way.
Failure is growth.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“I am trying to see the beauty
in what is here for me right now.
Instead of only seeing the beauty in things
I long for but have never even held.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“She found beauty
in the way
the waves could
wipe the sand clean
of any past mistakes.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“People will jump to conclusions about you. People will label you how they see fit. People will create their own ideas about who you are. People who do this are the ones that are not content with who they are, so they worry more about who you are instead.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“They hate me. They are mad at me. They hate me. They are mad at me. Why did I say that? Why did I do that? Do they hate me? Are they mad at me? Oh wait, they messaged back. No, “haha” or “LOL.” They only said, “Sounds good.” So all must be well, right? Or are they mad at me? -what my anxiety makes me think”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“I sat at home on Friday nights and made Spotify playlists that reflected my mood. I laid around on Saturday evenings and binged watched Netflix until half past two. I sat at home and thought about all the things that I wanted to be doing. But my homebody self with social anxiety preferred to live vicariously through the people in those movies.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“I did not even like myself. I was talking behind my own back. I was my own fake friend.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“I let you tell me who I was for so long that I started to think I was your shadow.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“Alone is sometimes all I need to be. Eyes closed. Mind open. Sipping iced coffee between the silence and the breeze. Alone does not have to mean lonely.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“Your pain is 100% real even if no one else understands it. It is not their pain to get, because they are not the ones feeling it.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“Releasing my need
to always be right.
Allowing myself to accept
when I am wrong.
This is something that
took me far too long.
But how freeing it feels.
How right it feels to admit
my wrongs.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“I would like to thank all
the random pieces of paper,
the napkins and receipts,
for being the one consistent
thing in my life that absorbs
every word I say.
The good and the bad
with absolutely no judgment.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“All I could think was,
she is back.
But I handled her well.
I addressed that she was there.
Allowed myself to feel
the emotions she brought me.
Eventually, I felt her slowly going away more and more.
Maybe she will come back
again someday,
but I am ready to handle her.
 
-when anxiety comes back”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“I have left so many tears at the ocean
that I started to wonder if
that is why it is saltwater.
Is the ocean filled with tears
of all the people who sit on the coastline
and spill their heart and soul out into the unknown?”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“There is something so freeing
about sharing your soul
with people who have
no expectations about
who you should be
or where you should go.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“This is my journey from being so completely lost in life, to finding the roads that lead me to where I want to go. Although I have found my way I still get lost at times. I go on detours, make pit stops, and hit dead ends, but I have learned to embrace the ride.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“I want to be as transparent as the rain dripping down a window reflecting who I am inside.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“I am trusting that today’s struggles are tomorrow’s victories. I am trusting there is some reason all of this is happening to me.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“I may not be the easiest person to love, but trust me when I say that the only reason I am not easy to love is because in the back of my mind I fear you going away.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“I am sorry I am always leaving. I am afraid to plant my roots too deep in the ground. Because uprooting myself after being planted for so long involves more and more people each time around.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“Eating in front of other people would make me nervous. Feeling the need to justify why I am eating what I was eating.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“What anthem will be there to play for you, like you are the closing scene in that feel-good movie? I am taking back my power to write the story I want to tell. I will no longer allow someone else to write my story for me. They do not know my plots or turning points. They do not know who I am beyond who they think they are for me.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“She feels less alone more and more each day. Loving yourself is a do it yourself project that you will not regret.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“If you had to let the supportive people in your life go today, would you still be able to hold yourself up on your own?”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“that the only reason I am not easy to love is because in the back of my mind I fear you going away.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“I do not actually want one more drink, I just do not want this night to end. I am afraid of the morning when I have to face reality again.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“fall in love with places that have importance, so why am I still struggling to fall in love with the body I have always called home?”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here

“I am known for picking flower petals off the ground and wishing I could help them get back on the plant where they belong. I am known for trying to help everyone else but myself.”
― Jennae Cecelia, Losing Myself Brought Me Here