“Being raw means connecting to other people’s trials and noticing how we all have to find our own answers; we all have to learn how to show up and breathe without grasping for something to deliver us from our own pain. When you resist your own rawness and pain, you only create more pain for yourself. You have to make peace with yourself. Push away the bad voices, again and again, and replace them with something kinder and more patient. Say to yourself, “I’m broken right now, but I’m doing my best.” Take in the electricity, the shivers, the rough-hewn fear of your raw state, and eventually, if you welcome these feelings in enough without fighting them, you’ll find inspiration and comfort there.”