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I hope you pay attention to what your body, heart, and soul need, and I hope you nourish them all accordingly.

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You CANNOT make someone happy by letting them steal your joy.

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Life is HARD. Parenting is HARD. Marriage is HARD. The hardest thing of all is not being hard on ourselves.

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Love until every fiber of your being is on fucking fire.

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When we allow our hearts to break, we allow reality to enter and seep right through our veiled existence. We allow space for knowledge and understand the need to silence our thoughts and ideas about the world so that we can finally listen to what’s really being said.

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At any given moment, we are all collectively having some form of this experience. Life is beautiful and joyous and thrilling and at times gut-wrenching and heartbreaking and indescribably sad.

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While the training I received was important, it was the people I was lucky enough to meet that truly made the biggest impact.

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We are each fighting our own little battle. Some of us hide it a little better than others.

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You give to the best of your ability when you’re tired but generous. You always seem to be the one who gives a part of yourself selflessly to someone.

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When you understand what pain feels like, you gain the capacity to become an incredibly empathetic and understanding person. You’re able to relate on a deeper level because you’ve been there.