Lizzy Milani

She/Her. Human. Person. Figuring it out as I go. Author and co-creator of @thepracticeco.

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"Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear." Wayne W. Dyer.

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If you're going to measure anything, measure the distance you've already covered. Allow your progress thus far to fill you with energy. Celebrate how far you've come.

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Self-acceptance is how you start to rise in your power; it’s not the slippery slope to destruction. Self-love is how you begin to heal; it’s not the pathway to narcissism.

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It is not disloyal to question, or to doubt, or to seek. It is not disloyal to say no, or not now, or please respect my boundaries. Devotion should never be the means used to take advantage of another's love, energy, time and agency.

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What if we gave ourselves to the wild ways of joy, just like we've learned to give ourselves to grief when it comes. Maybe, somewhere in the future, someone will discover the five stages of joy to help us wring as much healing and beauty and wonder out of it, too.

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Belonging to yourself begins with self-love and is perpetuated by self-respect. Follow self-love into the work of cultivating a courageous sense of respect and dignity for yourself.

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When you don’t know what to do, go inward, sink deep, seek the wisdom of the eternal within you. It’s in the quiet hidden heart of you that you’ll find the clarity and the courage to do the next right thing.

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“At some point in a woman's life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is." Liz Gilbert.

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"Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry what people are saying." Rumi.

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Forget about balance (it’s not real anyway), and find your rhythm instead - nothing forced, nothing held back, moving to the beat of life as it flows through you.

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I’m done with the kind of faith that doesn’t allow for mess and wonder. I crave a faith that ebbs and flows, that doesn’t know but wants to learn, that isn’t exclusive and set aside for a few but is large and expansive and can wrap its arms around us all.

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“Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you’ve created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.” - Miguel Ruiz.

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Success is found in well-being, not productivity.

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What you’re looking for is often not what you end up finding. As you learn to trust your being, & practice having faith in yourself, God, and the connection between it all, the treasure reveals itself to you… you’ll start seeing the treasures embedded around you, already, here.

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“Too often in the past our approach to truth has been to assume that we have it and others do not. Consequently, we have thought that our role is to tell people what to believe…” (JPN). We’ve turned Christian spirituality into a measuring stick, rather than a pathway.

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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ~ Rumi

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This year, instead of resolutions and lists and goals, get yourself still for a moment. Settle. Soften. Breathe. Consider love to be your structural and essential identity, and sit with the ideas and imaginings and reckonings that come up in the face of that truth.

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Your capacity and willingness to bend and flex no matter what twists and turns life brings your way, is what makes you strong. Strength is found not in stature but in flexibility, openness, the courage to bend and sway and move.

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You are human and holy. You are spirit and body. You are an integrated being that contains multitudes - all of you belongs. And that’s the grace of it.

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Healing is a process. All the pieces of it come together over time, not in a single moment. It's a journey of grace more than it is a moment of triumph.
Grace, grace, grace for your healing.