Stephani Shaner

Your anxiety is not an excuse for being an asshole to other people.

You have to accept the fact that sometimes, the other person doesn’t want to hear your side. They don’t want to understand you.

You gotta get up and try, and try, and try…

Despite what the online world wants you to believe, not everyone is able to be creative and productive every single day while we trudge on through these weeks.

People often say that you are mature for your age, that they can’t believe you are as young as you are with the way you carry yourself.

Whether you are a skeptic or a surefire believer in the paranormal, we can all admit that there is a lot of mystery surrounding the afterlife.

There are so many unknowns right now and all we can do is sit and speculate about the many little outcomes that we could be facing.  

When it comes to relationships I feel it’s safe to say that most of us want the same thing. 

While connecting with other people who have experienced domestic abuse, it seemed that many of us have something in common. Victims of domestic abuse struggle with identifying themselves as real victims.

What was I really losing?

Putting your needs first is not selfish, despite what your brain tells you.

The truth is that the red flags you ignore at the start will end up being the reasons the relationship fails later on.

You deserve the kind of love that makes you smile at red lights and fall asleep at night in absolute bliss.

Truth be told, sometimes the only thing that helps an aching heart is music. 

Your partner should respect your right to have friendships outside of the relationship.

amount of love you have for them has zero correlation to how good they will treat you. You can try your hardest and work yourself to the bone for them, but unless the effort is mutual, nothing will change.  

In the past, kindness was always followed up with some ulterior motive. Why would anything be different this time?

You cannot heal where you experience trauma. You cannot heal in the places you are being abused.