You have to stop ruining things for yourself preemptively because you believe they’ll fail anyway. Give yourself a chance to succeed.

"The simple fact that you care, that you want to do your best, that you strive to enjoy life and love, this makes you so much more than enough." - Brendon Burchard

“I just don’t want that for myself anymore” is a valid reason to stop anything.

"At the end of the day, remind yourself that you did the best you could today, and that is enough." - Unknown

"After trauma you feel frozen in time, and disconnected from everyone and everything, including yourself. It feels as if it takes forever to recover, reconnect and feel alive again." - Unknown

Trust your body. When your intuition tells you something is off about a situation, a person, or a place—trust it and remove yourself immediately.

Your soul knows. It will tell you when it's time to distance yourself from those who no longer align with you mentally, emotionally, physically, or energetically.

The older you get, the more you choose calm over chaos and distance over disrespect. Drama becomes intolerable to you, and your peace becomes your highest priority. You start surrounding yourself with people who are good for your mental health, heart, and soul.