Keep Moving: The Journal: Thrive Through Change and Create a Life You Love | 
“It is not enough to “think positive”; you have to “do positive.” Push hope from theory into practice. Do something today, however small, to light up your own life. Or shine on someone else—the light will reach you, too.”
I‘m not a fan of my society‘s obsession with thinking positive. But I like the idea of “doing positive.”
“There is a fine line between self-protection and self-sabotage. Do not withhold love from others just because someone withheld it from you.”
“Tell yourself kinder truths. You are not failing at life; you are reeling, sure, but you are succeeding at surviving.
KEEP MOVING.”
“Imagine what might await you on the other side of this dark forest. Imagine the clearing, the sunshine.
KEEP MOVING”
“You are the same person you were before this grief, and yet you have been transformed by it. Both are true, as impossible as that sounds: you are the same and you are different. Let yourself be changed, and trust that change is not erasure.
KEEP MOVING.”
“Put one foot in front of the other and believe that the road will be there. Be proud: you are not only traveling a new road but making it as you go.
KEEP MOVING.”
“Let go of the narratives you‘ve dragged around for years: you are not who you were as a child, or in year X, or on day Y—at least, not only. You do not have to fit yourself into those old, cramped stories. Be yourself here and now.
KEEP MOVING.”
“Do something today that will bring you joy even if you know you will not do it well. Let go of the idea that you have to be the best at something to do it. Train yourself to crave experience, not perfection.
KEEP MOVING.”
Advice I really need to follow!
“I had to learn to forgive myself for my brokenness and to be honest about what I was going through. As I talk and write candidly [about my struggles] I feel myself filling the cracks with gold. I am letting the seams show—those signs of survival, those scars I can be proud of—and letting them shine.”
#growth #survivor #mentalhealth
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But as bewildering as it can be, feeling numb is common in grief. Your body senses that the full weight of all the emotions triggered by their death would be too debilitating to feel at once. So, like a circuit breaker, it shuts them down before the system overloads. This can give you some additional time to process, especially if you are still absorbing the shock of their death. At some point, you will begin to feel again.
#grief #loss #death
“Being strong, bracing yourself against hurt, can get in the way of actual healing—the real work. Open up today, if only a little. Crack the window and let in the light and the air.
KEEP MOVING.”
#selfhelp #mentalhealth #growth #grief
“Vulnerability is strength. Do not compound your pain by being ashamed of it. Be vulnerable. Be strong.
KEEP MOVING.”
“Fight the urge to withdraw when you‘re in pain—to make yourself small, to secret yourself away, as if to avoid inflicting yourself on others. We are here to take care of one another, so let the people who love you do their work. It will be your turn soon enough.
KEEP MOVING.”
“Do not talk down to yourself for struggling; the struggle is part of the transformation. Trust that the version of yourself that emerges on the other side will be stronger for it.
KEEP MOVING.”
“If you are being gentle with yourself during a difficult time, that is not self-pity. You would show compassion to a friend in pain, even a stranger, so why withhold it from yourself? Don‘t.
KEEP MOVING.”
“Reflect on what you‘ve lived through—and look, you‘re still here. Look back at the road you‘ve traveled to get to this place, and know you‘ve built the strength to travel the next stretch—and the next one, and the next.
KEEP MOVING.”
“Do not turn away joy—even if it arrives at an inconvenient time, even if you think you should be grieving, even if you think it‘s “too soon.” Joy is always on time.
KEEP MOVING”
Believe there is peace up ahead, even if there‘s no sign of it on the horizon. Even if you can‘t see it yet, trust it‘s there. In the meantime, do what you can to bring a little peace to this day. Breathe.
KEEP MOVING.
“Keep in mind that grief does not get better day by day in some predictable way. Time doesn‘t take another stone off the pile each day until the pile is gone. Be patient. Expect the unexpected.”
#grief
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“Even though so much seems to be in pieces, trust your own wholeness. Accept that you cannot be sure of everything, but be sure of yourself.
KEEP MOVING”
“You are not betraying your grief by feeling joy. You are not being graded, and you do not receive extra credit for being miserable 100% of the time. Find pockets of relief, even happiness, when and where you can.
KEEP MOVING.”
