I had to learn to let the ocean pull me under in the storm. Trust that I could hold my breath. Trust that my body was waterproof. And that I would always find my way back to the surface once the storm had passed. 

when you can’t decipher yourself, let another do it for you.

all wounds heal, yet you can still see the scars that they left they are your battle scars be proud of where you’ve come from.  

There’s no need to push sadness away; welcome it, feel it, and let it pass. Our emotions are a spectrum, all of them necessary for survival, all of them transient.

How you love yourself, is how you teach others to love you.

humans have a magic ability to take an intangible idea and bring it into the physical realm

bush fires are necessary for regeneration; somethings have to burn before they can grow.

i’ve never been able to understand how we can hurt another without hurting ourselves

I always seem to find solace in knowing that all will shift, change and move. But it’s a funny thing isn’t it? The same thing that calms me, also frightens me. Some things I never wish to see shift, change or move. How will I ever know what to hold onto and what to let…

We all carry around elements of the past with us. Whether they’re beliefs, values or just plain memories, our intellect accumulates these elements as we move through life. We earthlings collate and store do-s and don’t-s (an intrinsic component of survival) e.g. ‘don’t touch fire, fire is hot, fire will burn you’, and although there…