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After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love QUOTES

After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love QUOTES

1 " Transitions, big or small, are rarely straightforward. They require abandoning the parts of ourselves that feel safe and familiar. It is a massive task to intentionally choose change over comfort. But it taught me to trust myself more and embrace the shifts. "

― Alexandra Elle , After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love

2 " My need for validation was rooted in my belief that I was born a broken girl. I didn’t know how to fix myself or find magic in the mess I was making, and I believed that in order to become whole, I needed someone else to put my pieces together. "

― Alexandra Elle , After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love

3 " Time has taken me by the hand and revealed how to be okay with not being okay. How to stop pretending and performing for the sake of being seen and heard. I am not on a stage. And being anyone but myself would be a disservice to my purpose. "

― Alexandra Elle , After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love

4 " I am being patient and giving myself permission to start over as many times as I need to. "

― Alexandra Elle , After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love

5 " There will be moments when I have to start from scratch and begin again — even after I've done intense work to mend. There's always more to learn in healing. "

― Alexandra Elle , After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love

6 " Letting go is teaching me that I am not lacking, but receiving. I am acquiring knowledge, resilience, and room in my heart for something greater. "

― Alexandra Elle , After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love

7 " Despite all the work I have done to arrive in a place of joy and contentment, there is still so much more to be considered. There is still much more to be done. Unfolding never stops, no matter how successful we become, how full we feel, or how at ease we may believe ourselves to be. There is always a next step, another way, and more to absorb. "

― Alexandra Elle , After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love

8 " During my crusade through self-discovery, I am continuously reminded that I am a student, and I will always be one. That is the gift even when we feel uncertain or lost in our current season. In order to grow, we, like the transition of autumn and rebirth of spring, must also prepare to shed and begin again. In pursuance of blooming, there must be rain. As we wait for the downpour to cease and new light to emerge, patience is our best and dearest friend. The sun will be on the horizon again, eventually. "

― Alexandra Elle , After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love

9 " After the rain, truth finds a way to shine through the clouds, reminding us all that we are deserving of healing. That we're worthy of change. That we are built to expand and stretch into our best selves. "

― Alexandra Elle , After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love

10 " The notion that I had the power to outgrow who I was, and start a new relationship with who I wanted to be, became clear to me when I was about twenty-one. Even though it felt impossible, I wanted badly to reroute my life and find joy, but I didn't know where to start. Searching for and finding my how was the scariest thing I'd done in my life. Changing meant I had to start with being honest about who I was and who I wanted to be. It meant learning the difference between being alone and being lonely. I had to get my stuff together. And in order to do that, I knew I needed to leave people behind who were distracting me from my growth. I had to start from scratch and acknowledge my roles in the cycles that I said I wanted to break. Committing to change meant challenges and trust, which stripped me of everything that I knew. "

― Alexandra Elle , After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love

11 " I wasn't trying my best, and it was time to get out of my own way. I felt like a robot trapped in a cycle of never-ending mediocrity. I'd gotten comfortable with being average. For me, change required being brave enough to let go and vulnerable enough to start over, even if that meant trying more than once or twice to get it right. "

― Alexandra Elle , After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love

12 " I am deserving of emotionally clean spaces. "

― Alexandra Elle , After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love

13 " That was the hardest part for me: letting go and letting love lead without fear of being hurt at every turn. "

― Alexandra Elle , After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love

14 " I understand that in order to make space for healing, all things must be rooted in love, and not fear. "

― Alexandra Elle , After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love

15 " I'd worked so hard to identify ill feelings stemming from my childhood and hush them so they wouldn't be a distraction in my present-day life. "

― Alexandra Elle , After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love

16 " My past couldn't keep speaking for my present. Trauma or not, I had to make the effort to rise from the ashes and soar. "

― Alexandra Elle , After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love

17 " Becoming who I wanted to be, and not adhering to what negative and external voice were saying, taught me how to stand in my power. "

― Alexandra Elle , After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love

18 " The older I got, the more clear it became that I was the common denominator in my suffering, so I needed to adjust. Self-love feels like looking yourself in the eye, taking a deep breath and saying: I see you. "

― Alexandra Elle , After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love

19 " I grow more comfortable with the fact that emotional hardship does not have an end point. Triggers will present themselves, and sometimes I don't know what the hell I am doing. But I take comfort in knowing that I have the ability to learn new ways to self-soothe when grief strikes. "

― Alexandra Elle , After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love

20 " I have the strength to touch where it hurts. I will tell my pain that it's safe to heal. In the throes of healing, I may break open time and time again to learn that the things I thought I healed from still need nurturing. "

― Alexandra Elle , After the Rain: Gentle Reminders for Healing, Courage, and Self-Love