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Rachel Hollis does it again. Honestly this book hit me harder than any of my other books. Reading this book made me go out and buy a new journal to write my goals, reflect on my day, and so much more. I aspire to be even as half as strong as Rachel…

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

I really love her story and the feeling I had at the end of this book. I feel like books like this one are always necessary to read, especially at the moment of my life that I‘m in.

#GirlWashYourFace #RachelHollis

So much good in this book‘

Finished this on the way to Lancaster today. Some parts were good, I just had to work through her way of writing. If she talks the way she writes in real life, I think I‘d be very much overwhelmed 😅

My rating: ⭐️⭐️ 1/2

#clarity #indeliablemoments @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Only you have the power to change your life.

I don‘t need to find anyone. Right now, in this moment, I‘m my own hero.

I‘m never going to be offended if you ask the question. I only get offended if someone who isn‘t my race just assumes they know the answer.”

Every day you get to choose the way your world looks. Regardless of how you were raised or what you were taught to believe, you get to decide where your story goes from here.

Different isn‘t unique to them; different is their normal.

“When you know better, you do better.”

At some point you grow up enough to understand that many people here on earth are different from you; and what you do with that knowledge defines much of your story.

I didn‘t know that being other was wrong, because I didn‘t know that other existed.

Strength is never easy to come by.

“I am strong. I am smart. I am courageous.”

Just as you‘ve chosen to stay in this place for so long, you can also choose to get yourself out of it.

Divorce is destruction that starts at the top and breaks everything apart on the way down.

The longer you live in a state of honesty, the easier it becomes to simply exist there all the time.

I blindly stumbled my way down a path I could not see. I chose to move forward because, while I knew I would find pain, I also knew I would draw strength.

“Yes, it‘s hard! But our dream didn‘t go away because it got hard,

it's possible to find purpose—even in the absence of explanation.

You cannot ignore your pain. You cannot ever leave it behind completely. The only thing you can do is find a way to embrace the good that came out of it—even if it takes you years to discover what that is.

I am still here because I refuse to let anything or anyone decide what I get to have. I am still here because I refuse to let my trauma have the last word. I am still here because I will not let a nightmare have more power than my dreams. I am still here because I didn‘t allow the hard time to make me weak; I willed it to make me strong.

“Someone else‘s opinion of you is none of your business.”

My goals are real to me. There isn‘t a single doubt or question in my mind that I can achieve them.

Every single aspect of our persona, no matter how long we‘ve rocked it, is a choice we make every day.

Do you stop yourself from daring to try something new because you‘re already positive you‘ll fail? Do you remain silent when you have so much to say? Do you believe you‘ll never do better or be better than you are right now because of your family of origin? Do you hesitate to admit your dreams aloud because you‘re nervous about others making fun of you or judging you for your choices?

I have so many goals and dreams for myself, and not one of them is small. They‘re big and wild and full of hope. They require faith and courage and a whole lot of audacity.

you can‘t blame the past for the things that went wrong if you aren‘t also willing to be thankful for the things that went right.

The things you think are so difficult could be someone else‘s dream come true.

Remember that someone else is praying to have the kind of chaos you‘re currently crying about.

Tomorrow is another day and a chance to try again.

You are in control of yourself. But you cannot control the actions of others,

Life is crazy and stressful, and sometimes it gets worse before it gets better.

I pretend it isn‘t there. I keep my head down and keep working harder and harder because nobody can hit a moving target.

small things can have monstrous effects.

it's highly possible that by not being where you thought you should be, you will end up exactly where you‘re meant to go.

The most beautiful things in my life were never on my to-do list.

But I‘ve learned that along with my list of goals, I have to give myself some grace.

Your life will unfold as it was meant to, even when it unfolds into something painful and difficult to navigate.

Do you have faith in my plan or not?

Nothing is wasted.Every single moment is preparing you for the next.

Our own negative self-talk can be more damaging than the emotional abuse heaped on us.

I thought my goals had expiration dates.

I do the best I can with the time I have, and I bend and stretch for the stuff that seems particularly important.

Being a perfect mom is a myth—but being a pretty great mom, most of the time, is actually possible.

Pretty good is way better than trying to fake perfection.

“So you can finally be like all the other moms.”

The God who made the moon and the stars and the mountains and the oceans, the Creator who did all of those things, believed that you and your baby were meant to be a pair. That doesn‘t mean you‘re going to be a perfect fit. That doesn‘t mean you won‘t make mistakes. It does mean that you need not fear failure because you can‘t fail a job you were created to do.

I was so worried about failing him, I ended up failing myself.