I know that your instinct is to do whatever you can to earn the good graces of everyone you can, but that is also the impulse that will rob you of yo… - Brianna Wiest

Read. If you don’t read, it’s not because you don’t like reading; it’s because you haven’t picked up anything that interests you. What you read now will affect the person you’re going to be for decades to come. Read articles and essays online about how people cope with their fears — in it you will find camaraderie, how many strangers feel just as you do. Read about things you don’t understand, that scare you and fascinate you. Just read, damnit.

Defensiveness never precedes growth, it stunts it.

We heal when we learn how to adjust how we show up, not how we change what we show up to.