We’re Giving Away Copies Of My New Book, The Human Element
This giveaway is now over, but you can buy a copy of The Human Element on Amazon or iBooks.
This giveaway is now over, but you can buy a copy of The Human Element on Amazon or iBooks.
The books you treat like bibles. The doodles and quotes in your journal, the Tumblr photos you reblog. The glossy magazines you flipped through when you were a pre-teen crafting ideas about womanhood that you’d have to dismantle for yourself.
You don’t owe yourself to the things you left behind. You don’t have to worry about the people who don’t worry about you. You don’t have to be fighting an upward battle to have a life that has meaning. You aren’t worthier for having suffered.
You stop assuming you know best.
Who you were doesn’t have to bleed into who you’ll be.
Every time I’m trying to mentally comfort myself enough to fall asleep in a tent or in a friend’s guest room or on a foreign couch, I find that I have to place myself in the moment, and make it home, even just for a second.
Don’t allow your “no” to be the beginning of a negotiation.
No matter what happens. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
What makes us human is not what destroys us, but what we build ourselves with again.
How your parents felt about their bodies, and what they said about them even when you were little or they didn’t think you were listening.