Ease in Skin

"There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty."

Steve Maraboli

Openness

"It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar."

-Anais Nin

Water and Mountains

"This ocean is terrific
specifically pacific
magnificent in
all the ways
the mountains are...
yet different."

Dallas Clayton

Always Trees

"O the pleasure with trees!
The orchard- the forest- the oak, cedar, pine, pekan-tree,
The honey-locust, black-walnut,
cottonwood, and magnolia.

Walt Whitman, Poem of Joys

Allow Sight

"So love who you want to love, and write what you want to write, and work where you want to work, and live where you want to live. Do the things you are meant to do. And allow yourself to be seen the entire way, even in the beginning when you're fumbling around, naive and inexperienced just trying not to face plant. 

You must allow yourself to be seen.

Doubt and resistance will come. In fact, that's a sign that you are doing something right. Don't fight the darkness... just don't live there. Don't be bullied back into a small life. That was not for you. That will never be for you. You are brave and you are trying and that is incredible. 

I think we are here on earth to learn how to relax into ourselves. I think we're here to learn how to come home. So remind yourself that you are safe amidst the chaos."

Kristin Lohr

Tightrope or Clean Teeth

"When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong decision. Our mental and emotional states fluctuate madly when we make big changes in our lives, and some days we could tightrope across Manhattan, and other days we are too weary to clean our teeth. This is normal. This is natural. This is change."

Jeanette Winterson

We are volcanoes

“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all maps change. There are new mountains.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin