If you have been marked by life then you have left your mark too. — If you have something to lose, consider yourself one of the lucky ones. …

On the opposite side of hiding is hope. — “Learn to live alongside cringe. No matter how hard you try to avoid being cringe you will look back on your life and cringe retrospectively.” — Taylor Swift Many of us spend our whole lives hiding and often without even knowing what from. We hide from what we want because…

It is when we lean into our softness that we unearth our greatest strength. — True vulnerability is admitting we can get hurt, accepting that sometimes we must, and allowing ourselves to show up authentically anyway because being rejected for who we are is much better than being respected for who we are not. Experiencing the full extent of joy even at the risk of…

You will rise higher the minute you release the pressure that has been pushing you down. — To the girl who is a little too hard on herself, I know it might seem like no matter what you do it’s never enough. …

Start here — today. — Start here — today. Open a blank page and simply write. Don’t wait for the perfect time or the most eloquent wording because things only get better as you work through them. You have to start before you can improve, to draft before you can edit. The only time you…

Even when it feels like you can’t. — Just because it’s comfortable doesn’t mean it’s right. — Sometimes, we don’t rely on our feelings enough. Others, we rely on them too much. We assume what feels good is good. We underestimate how attached we are to comfortability and how it’s that very attachment that keeps us tethered to…

Creativity isn’t something we find. It’s something we lose. — Creativity isn’t something we find. It’s something we lose. Look at any child and you’ll remember we were born creators; intrinsically curious, naturally spontaneous, and perfectly playful. We are first what we go on to spend our entire lives trying to become– pure and unencumbered. Free. Creativity is our birthright…

It’s time to flip the paradigm. — We tend to value being realistic and yet for many of us, this only applies to positive thinking. We readily ponder worst-case scenarios, draft elaborate backup plans, and run through step-by-step what we would do if things went miserably wrong. We ruin happy moments by worrying about when and how…

3. I am closer now than I have ever been. — Change is hard; sometimes unbearably slow and others shockingly sudden. Even when you are the one initiating it, and even when you know your reasons for doing so, it can be so easy to turn back and change your mind. It can be so tempting to retreat to the familiar…