“Navigating depression is a long, exhaustive process. It took time to reteach my heart to feel. For my body to endure. For my soul to risk living again. But it was time well spent. “

“There is something that once brought you life that you no longer do too.”

“Slow down, and look at how you go about your daily doings. See how much of your day-to-day is harder simply because everyone else is covered—but you.”

“What began as a fight to protect someone else became the moment I realized I deserved protection too.”

“Living today does not equate to living tomorrow. Living today only equates to living now.”

“Find something that makes you believe in your future prosperity; something that reminds you that your needs matter too, even when resources seem stretched thin.”

“We are quickly reminded that the barriers our children face during a school year are different than those of summer in so many ways.”

“I once believed that if I built an enjoyable life- I would inherently be joyful as I lived it, but that hasn’t proven to be true.”

“Out of necessity, horses taught me how to cope…”

“I used to think feeling disappointed was a huge waste of time…”

“We do not evaluate our life in February…During this one month of the year, we give ourselves permission to coast, survive and let the shit hit the fan if it must.”

“The world isn’t ready for you. Not because the world doesn’t need you, but because the world doesn’t know it needs you…”

“In spite of all the hoops I have jumped through in my education or profession, the credit of my worth to these entities continues to lie in the hoops I have set before me…”

“I wasn’t processing pain; I was meditating on it, and I was doing it quite obsessively.”

“…it is in life’s most pressurized moments when we truly become the next version of ourselves…”

“Track truly taught me that outward success does not, and will not, equal internal success.”

“Over time, I have learned that any underused, or overused, emotion can lead to voids within the human soul. “

“The only arms I was now allowed to bear were those of humility and vulnerability; both of which felt like I was surviving surgery without proper anesthetic.”

“…in order for her to find the beauty she was desperate to find, she had to admit some ugly truths about herself along the way.”

“The same exact place we shared the excitement of an unexpected life would now become the place we would grieve the unexpected loss of a life unlived.”