#twm quote

We can be sad about letting go and still know it’s the right thing to do. We can miss what is gone without putting ourselves back there. We can remember without reliving. We can release connections and reminders that no longer serve where we’re headed. We can move forward, every single one of us.

It was impossible to outrun myself and, finally, beyond the brink of existential exhaustion, I stopped. Finally stopped indulging in self-destructive self-distraction and sought the truth. Finally decided to listen to what my soul had been whispering all along. I finally stopped and faced myself.

Extensive integration work has allowed me to see that, DID or not, people aren’t that much different underneath. I’m not the uncanny alien everyone made me feel I was; there was rhyme and reason for everything, and it was very, very human.

Not long ago, Lighthouse asked if we knew why we became so fragmented. Sometimes it was because “I can’t do this, I can’t be here,” and sometimes it was “I need to be someone who can,” but most often, our answer is, “Because we weren’t meant to be alone.”

Grouches find the beauty in garbage, and aren’t afraid of dirt or grunge or rot. Plus, on the Street, Oscar was never scolded for being grouchy; he was accepted, and when he told people to go away, they listened. Grouches have boundaries; Grouches are respected.

You will drag yourself out of the swamps, battered and covered in the muck of memories, and you will wash their vicious, viscous footprints from your mind. You will put down roots and grow in resiliency; you will successfully weather the storms. You will mend yourself, and you will become strongest in the broken places.