just a reminder:
you don’t have to do it all, carry it all, or figure it all out today. healing isn’t about perfection; it’s about giving yourself permission to feel, to rest, and to be. you are worthy of softness, joy, and spaces where you don’t have to shrink.
breathe. take up space. you are seen, you are valued, and you are enough—exactly as you are.
therapy tunes.
for when you need to feel seen.
words to hold onto.
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words to hold onto. •
“You are your best thing.”
Toni Morrison
“Give light and people will find the way”
Ella Baker
“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”
Maya Angelou
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
— Audre Lorde
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
— Alice Walker
'“If you don’t understand yourself you don’t understand anybody else.
— Nikki Giovanni
“I will not let you define me, because I know that I am more than what you think I am.”
— Audre Lorde
If I don't poke my head out of my shell and show people who I am, all anyone will ever think I am is my shell."
'“You’ve got to leave the table when love’s no longer being served.”
— Nina Simone
"It's not possible to constantly hone in on the crisis. You have to have the love and you have to have the magic, that's also life.
— Toni Morrison
Reinvent yourself over and over and over and over and over until you find home. There is no timeline for the soul.
— Malebo Sephodi
How dull it is to have people defining you.
—Octavia Butler
For me, success is not a public thing. It's a private thing. It's when you have fewer and fewer regrets.
—Toni Morrison
“I will not let you define me, because I know that I am more than what you think I am.”
— Audre Lorde
"We do not have to be what the world wants us to be; we can be our whole selves."
– bell hooks