Thought Catalog 2022

By Kelly Peacock Learn more

Stop accepting your own excuses. Stop being complacent with your own justifications. Start quantifying your days by how many healthy, positive things you accomplished, and you will see how quickly you begin to make progress.

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Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is.

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You are still standing. After everything you have been through, you have made it through. Please don’t forget this because you will make it through it all. You will.

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The reality is that you exist in so many different forms and images and beliefs and stories—and yet, the only one that is ever really going to matter is the one you tell yourself.

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She may have gone to bed with tears in her eyes but she woke up with an I got this on her mind. She just wasn’t built to quit.

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You deserve someone who will show up for you the way you show up for them. I hope you seek patience in the process of finding love. I hope you hold your standards high because you do deserve what you desire.

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You deserve the kind of love that heals the parts of you that you thought could never be healed.

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So please, don’t withdraw or close yourself off. Self-hatred doesn’t get unlearned through isolation. It’s unlearned through love. Through connection and care. Through having relationships and gathering evidence that you can be imperfect and struggling and still be valued.

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She realized that in order to be who she was born to be, she needed to let go of who her trauma taught her to be. She took ownership of her choices, her words, her actions, and ultimately her life And everything started working together for her good.

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Your mountain is the block between you and the life you want to live. Facing it is also the only path to your freedom and becoming. You are here because a trigger showed you to your wound, and your wound will show you to your path, and your path will show you to your destiny.

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Decide you’re deserving of real friendship, true commitment and complete love with people who are healthy and thriving.

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When you’re still having a reaction to something upsetting that happened a long time ago, it means that you need to do more work processing that trauma and that you need more effective coping mechanisms.

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