Chelsea Leigh Trescott

If you catch yourself playing games, sit yourself down and ask what’s really going on.

In other words, try as you might, but darling, we are not dead to each other. 

I knew the letter I wanted would never get written and the reflection that I was so desperately chasing would never be shared with me.

When you aren’t angry with someone, there’s nothing to project. When you haven’t lost yourself, there’s no one to go searching for.

It was where the experience with myself began to get better.

I hope you find a way to excite the people in front of you today and, so importantly, I hope you excite yourself.

We should indulge in each other. We should savor each other. We should look closer, lean in further, and be more tender.

I have to feel it all. Otherwise, I’m missing myself.

The truth is, we really are a compilation of all the people we have ever loved, of all the people we have ever been seen and held by.

The easiest, most knee-jerk reaction to an “almost” relationship of any kind is regret, resentment, and even pity.

I’m warning you that staying can turn into weakness and that weakness can become a trap and you might not even see it for what it is until one sleepless night a decade later.

That’s what “right” means to me, it means honest.

If you want to make peace with your past, you’ll need to let go of this dream that your past could have gone any other way and trust that how it went is how it was meant to go.

Eating disorders really are the last effort we take to continue keeping it all inside.

he was afraid because our children make us question everything when they are trying to forgive what we would not

Those miles would kill you you told me I laughed at my own independence

We must push our own knowing out into the world. Through small and simple and excruciating efforts, we must show ourselves how enough we are, how we are more—so much more—when we do not hold back

The reality is, having one last talk with our ex is rarely ever a wish for one last talk.