Maybe instead of slamming the door on pain, I need to throw open the door wide and say, Come in. Sitd down with me. And don’t leave until you have taught me what I need to know.
I’m trying to fix my pain with certainty, as if I’m one right choice away from relief. I’m stuck in anxiety quicksand: The harder I try to climb my way out, the lower I sink. The only way to survive is to make no sudden movements, to get comfortable with discomfort, and to find peace without answers.
Women who are concerned with being pretty think about what they look like, but women who are concerned with being beautiful think about what they are looking at. They are taking it all in. They are taking in the whole beautiful world and making all that beauty theirs to give away to others.
Recovery is an unbecoming. My healing has been a peeling away of costume after cstume until here I am, still and naked before God, stripped down to my real identity.
His forgetfulness feels like carelessness, and his carelessness feels like rejection.
Why does a woman’s neutral face mean anger, while a man’s neutral face means neutral?
I need to sit with the quiet. I know that much.
I don’t want to take anything to the grave. I want to die used up and emptied out. I don’t want to carry around anything that I don’t have to. I want to travel light.
The original Hebrew word for woman, a word that is used twice to refer to the first woman, three times to refer to strong military forces, and sixteen times to refer to God, is this: Ezer... I learn this: “The word Ezer has two roots: strong and benevolent. The best translation of Ezer is: Warrior.” God created woman as a Warrior.
I am loved and have always been loved and will always, always be loved. I have never been separated from this love, I have only convinced myself I was.
I’ve only begun the work that needs to be done here. Not yet, the voice says. Not yet. See this through. Unbecome, Glennon. Unbecome until you uncover who you really are.
Kind people are brave people. Brave is not something you should wait to feel. Brave is a decision. It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd. Trust me, baby, it is. It is more important.
Marketers need us to believe that our pain is a mistake that can be solved with their product.
Loving people and animals makes us stronger in the right ways and weaker in the right ways. Even if animals and people leave, even if they die, they leave us better. So we keep loving, even though we might lose, because loving teaches us and changes us.
Every girl must decide whether to be true to herself or true to the world. Every girl must decide whether to settle for adoration or fight for love.
Pain transforms one woman into two so that she has someone to walk with, someone to sit with her in the dark when everyone else leaves.
These things don’t fill me completely, but they remind me that it is not my job to fill myself. It’s just my job to notice my emptiness and find graceful ways to live as a broken, unfilled human – and maybe to help myself and others feel a teeny bit better.
These things will be hard to do, but you can do hard things.
When you write your truth, it is a love offering to the world because it helps us feel braver and less alone.
Peace isnt the absence of distraction or annoyance or pain. Its finding Me, finding peace and calm, in the midst of those distractions and annoyances and pains.