I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to go. - Cheryl Strayed

Transformation doesn’t ask that you stop being you. It demands that you find a way back to the authenticity and strength that’s already inside of you. You only have to bloom.

You did things you didn't hope to do. You have not always been your best self. This means that you're like the rest of us.

It seemed like a long time and also it seemed like my trip had just begun, like I was only now digging into whatever it was I was out here to do. Like I was still the woman with the hole in her heart, but the hole had gotten ever so infinitesimally smaller.