The beginning of healing comes from the end of pleasing. Your needs, desires, and emotions matter. Stop appeasing to be loved and start building a love that doesn’t require self sacrifice.
Wherever God has you, be your best where you are. Don’t cut corners, waste time, show up late. If you’re not faithful where you are, God can’t trust you with more. That’s a test.
Normalize feeling proud of yourself, speaking highly of yourself, and speaking highly about other people. Once you start paying attention, you realize most people speak about themselves in the same way a critical parent would. (“I’m such an idiot!”)
some pple are just irreplaceable. The things they do, the kindness they show, the feelings they had for you; you may never experience it again for the rest of your life.