In this culture of winners and losers. Your trauma is your trauma. This is not a measuring contest of pain.
REBEKAH STERLACCINew clothes won’t fill the void. Money won’t make you happy. Attention won’t heal past wounds. Things won’t finally make you feel better. If it’s broken its broken. These are distractions from the real work.
More Rebekah Sterlacci Quotes
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I am slowly finding my way back into my skin. Or maybe that’s not it. I am growing into a new skin with knowledge and time.
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We only see what we want to see. Usually it is ourselves. Look closer. Tilt the mirror so you can see more. Beyond self.
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When I am broken you don’t try to fix me. You listen. You are there. Thankyou.
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It’s possible to be all the parts of you that live in your heart, brain, and body. Not divided into containers. A giant messy wait of authenticity. Where you are all the things. All the time.
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When you come calling I’ll answer. But I know I have to keep a piece of my heart just for me.
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Holding on to something that has lost its magic, lost its mutual respect, hurts more. Elsa understood the assignment.
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A low hum. Vibration when it hits the skin. An image. Permanent art. But the most satisfying part is- the decisive-ness. Decision made.
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Every time I answer- I have to work harder to remember that I am happier with a wall between us. But knowing this – I still pick up.
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I’ve said goodbye to so much. Now there is space. And for the first time I see how necessary it all was.
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Tell me to calm down. Go ahead. Tell me I’m crazy. Tell me how it actually works. Try to make me feel small and insignificant. But I see you. For the insecure, power clutching man you are. Good luck. You need it.
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Speak the things you hope for. Then rearrange how you do the things to make them happen.
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You are the only one I can truly count on.
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I breathe better now. I thought I wouldn’t or couldn’t. But I was wrong. Isn’t that how it is with these things.
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We say so much with our words unsaid. There is truth in the silence.
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When one thing changes, it all changes. And now sitting in a pile of fallen dominoes I feel like me.
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