The ultimate remedy for fear is self-trust. But how do I trust myself? By seeing yourself as the leader of your life. - Najwa Zebian

Sometimes forgiving yourself takes the form of you telling the story as you experienced it, not as someone else wrote it. Instead of “He first did this, then this, then that,” you are saying “I did, I felt, I…” And this is not to lay blame on you…it’s to make you the narrator of your own story.

I feel that I am on the verge
of disappearing,
of surrendering into nothingness,
of accepting that I am worth
absolutely nothing
and that I deserve what happened to me.
And everything that it did to me.
I have no power.
Where do I get it from?

Don’t worry about what people think of you or about the way they try to make you feel. If people want to see you as a good person, they will. If people want to see you as a bad person, absolutely nothing you do will stop them.