How To Train Your Dragon

I want to say that I love myself. I love very very deeply who I am. 

Sometimes along our way we encounter people who cannot bear for us to shine our light. KEEP ON SHINING. Do you think I would have written 800 blog posts if I had listened to every person who had been slightly intimidated by my commitment? KEEP ON SHINING 

Do you think as a woman I would’ve gotten anywhere if I’d listened to every slightly disparaging comment about my coding, especially in the early days? But especially as a trauma survivor who went on to have 4000ish seizures as a result of her trauma. Where do you think I would be now. If I had listened to the people who told me to give up. More importantly where would I be if I had listened to the people who told me to avoid it? What a stupid thing to do. There is nothing more important to do than to not avoid your trauma. Because it will drag you through the very pits of hell. It will drag you through the very depths of hell. But you will come out on the other side

The real hell is not coming out on the other side

The real hell is not travelling through the depths of hell itself 

“You can own the Earth and still, all you’ll own is Earth until, you can paint with all the colours of the wind.”