Brianna Wiest Quotes

Your old self is no longer suited to manage the life you have today, and so they must transform into who you are becoming now.

So much of our inner turmoil is the result of conducting a life we don’t inherently desire,

Your trauma is not “in your head”; it is literally a changed state in your brain, and the only way you will help your body to return to its actual state is by recreating the feeling of safety that allows you to “turn off” survival mode and return to normal life.

Human beings are guided by comfort. They stay close to what feels familiar and reject what doesn’t, even if it’s objectively better for them.

I’m only [such and such an age] I have a long time.” If you assume you “have time” to do something, or that you’ll do it later, you probably don’t want it as much as you think you do. There isn’t more time. You don’t know. You could be dead tomorrow.

The people you smiled at on the street this morning, the people whom you text regularly, the family you could stand to visit more — all the little bits of genuine human connection that you overlook because they’ve become givens.

Fear means you’re trying to move toward something you love, but your old beliefs, or unhealed experiences, are getting in the way.

Our lives begin the day we choose to follow our inner knowing,

You have time to do something you enjoy, even if “what you enjoy” is sitting on the couch and ordering dinner and watching Netflix.

Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand, interpret, and respond to your emotions in an enlightened and healthy way.

Whatever pain you think you are in right now cannot begin to compare to the peace that will one day come over you. It cannot begin to compare to the joy that you will one day know. You will fall in love with life again, and it will be better than it was before, because you will become a different person. You will become someone who is more capable of appreciating what matters, who will not be as reckless with their choices, who can no longer be so easily swayed or mindlessly trusting. You will require a new level of integrity within your life, which will transpire into better boundaries and a more stable foundation. You will strengthen in the most unexpected ways, and from that, your happiness will be even more sincere, even more apparent. This will not happen overnight, though it will seem like it did in retrospect. Like the changing of a season, everything shifts slowly until all of a sudden, you are standing firmly in the after, in all you feared would never come. You’re through it, but you’re different, because something also moved through you and cleared out what you didn’t even realize was standing in the way.

Your routine could be traveling to a different country every month. It could be being routinely un-routine. The point is not what the routine consists of, but how steady and safe your subconscious mind is made through repetitive motions and expected outcomes.

Do you really want to leave your self-esteem hinging on how you imagine others perceive you, or do you want to find a way to feel proud of yourself at the end of the day? Do you want to arrange your existence so that it would be impossible for anyone to say anything negative about it, or do you want to live with so much joy spilling out from inside you that it renders such opinions meaningless either way?

There is not one more thing that you need to do in order to be good enough for your own life. There is not one more thing you need to earn, accomplish, acquire or change.

Make your life a safe haven in which only people that have the capacity to care and listen and connect are allowed.