292 Quotes by Glennon Doyle Melton

My body is my teacher now, and I have learned. Pain and love are places I must be brave enough to visit. My courage will come from knowing I can handle whatever I encounter there – because I was designed by my creator to not only survive pain and love but also to become whole inside it. I was born to do this. I am a Warrior.

Since the day I decided to become sober and a mother, I’ve been trying to become who I am supposed to be.

What I want to be, girls, is beautiful. Beautiful means ‘full of beauty.’ Beautiful is not about how you look on the outside. Beautiful is about what you’re made of. Beautiful people spend time discovering what their idea of beauty on this earth is. They know themselves well enough to know what they love, and they love themselves enough to fill up with a little of their particular kind of beauty each day.

On my way out to my car the next morning, I see an index card taped to my front door. It says, “Everything will be okay.” It’s written in my dad’s handwriting. He must have driven over in the middle of the night to leave this message for me. I believe him.

Who else but a sibling travels with you from the start of life’s path to the bitter end?

Recovery is an unbecoming. My healing has been a peeling away of costume after cstume until here I am, still and naked before God, stripped down to my real identity.

This initial numbness and denial is shock and it is a gift. Shock is a grace period. It gives a woman time to gather what she needs around her, before the exhaustion and panic set in like a heavy snow. Shock allows her time to circle her people so that she can enter the hard work of grief, which will require all of her. Shock is the window offered after the fall so a woman can prepare herself for winter. Two.

The Warrior feeds all three of her selves: mind, spirit, body. I breathe deeply and then start on the potatoes. Eat until you’re full. Trust your body to guide you. Treat yourself like someone you love, Glennon. Listen to what you want and need and give it to yourself. Be your own friend.

Love is not a victory march; it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah. I.