“I didn’t know that I could balance the conscientiousness they taught with honoring my wants and needs, so I often orbited my desires around the comfort of others. And then when I was alone, I didn’t know my own voice.”
Read More“Everything I was doing was to make my job more sustainable for me, but all it did was make the (what I now know was) inevitable end less jarring.”
Read More“There are people who’re habitually careless with their words and actions.”
Read More“I didn’t bury, didn’t gossip, didn’t sacrifice the integrity of this problem because I chose to deal with it instead.”
Read More“To try to make another adult feel an emotion is to claim an arrogant amount of authority over their well-being and to discredit their own God-given abilities of control over their reactions.”
Read More“But you see, Comfort can also be stubborn. Its boundaries are rigid walls, and it stretches about as much as metal in winter. Comfort doesn’t like change or embarking on new territory, and it’s possessive.”
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