…While it’s true you’re haunted by your past, it’s truer that you’ve traveled spectacularly far away from it. You swam across a wide and wild sea and you made it all the way to the other side. That it feels different here on this shore than you thought it would does not negate the enormity of the distance you traversed and the strength it took you to do it.
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Dear Sugar, 5/17/12
Cheryl Strayed (“Sugar”) might not technically be a therapist, but she’s been doing some of the most wonderful therapy anywhere on the planet over the past couple of years through her Dear Sugar column over at The Rumpus. If you somehow haven’t read her columns yet, you should definitely go and do so right now. You might lose several hours of your day/life in the archives, but I promise you it will be time well spent.
(via psychotherapy)
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Things I must find for this fall:
1) Very feminine wear-everywhere ankle boots with a chunky heel of uniform width, 3-4 inches high. (Why is this so fucking hard to find?!)
2) A cape. Look at this girl’s fucking cape.
3) A great handbag because I currently hate all of mine.
hungoverowls:
“I want a do-over. Or a time out. Hell, I’d even settle for an off-switch at the moment.”
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life… Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same and worth saving.
“Sheryl WuDunn, the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor (along with her husband, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof) of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, explains: “When women are educated, they tend to marry later in life, to have children later in life, and to have fewer children. In effect, you have a form of population control that’s peaceful, voluntary, and efficient. Plus, educated women do better in business, raising economic growth rates, and lowering societal conflict. If we could achieve universal literacy for women, we’d have a much better shot at peace around the world.”
Read the whole article. It is so well written and so fascinating. Go.
The only person standing in your way is you. It’s time to let her go. Lose yourself.
Oh, dare to do it, Buddy! Trust your heart.
It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done.
