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Not everyone is okay with living like an open wound. But the thing about open wounds is that, well, you aren’t ignoring it. You’re healing; the fresh air can get to it. It’s honest. You aren’t hiding...
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I want to get more comfortable being uncomfortable. I want to get more confident being uncertain. I don’t want to shrink back just because something isn’t easy. I want to push back, and make more room...
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A friendship th…
A friendship that cannot survive the momentary discomfort of you standing up for your needs is not actually a friendship worth holding onto. –Jennifer Peepas (via This… is White Privilege)
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What was the first feminist book you read? Not Our Bodies, Ourselves or The Feminist Mystique. No, take me back. All the way back. Take me back to the trashy books you read. Take me back to the stuff...
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You won’t have interesting conversations or discoveries in your comfort zone. Don’t get me wrong — your comfort zone is a perfectly good place to hang out in when you’re enjoying a good novel or...
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Daniell Koepke, on getting through when the feels are overwhelming
Breathe. You’re going to be okay. Breathe & remember that you’ve been in this place before. You’ve been this uncomfortable & anxious & scared, & you’ve survived. Breathe & know that...
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Chani Nicholas, on relationship paradoxes
Learn to sit with uncomfortable, complex, paradoxes. Learn how to not immediately try to make it better. Learn how to let others have their own reactions and responses. That is what being in a...
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Kristin Armstrong, on being comfortable with discomfort
I want to get more comfortable being uncomfortable. I want to get more confident being uncertain. I don’t want to shrink back just because something isn’t easy. I want to push back, and make more room...
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