15 Quotes by Kristina Kuzmic

Whenever I'm feeling like a terrible person or a terrible parent, it's usually not because I'm truly terrible but *because I am telling myself a bad story about me.* Stories are powerful things. Tell yourself a story often enough, and it can start to shape your reality.

I love humor. I need humor. Tackling life without it is like trying to eat soup with a fork. Sure, you'll still get a tiny bit of nourishment from eating that way, but you'll miss out on so much goodness.

But we trick ourselves into thinking our worry is protective or preventative, that working through every possible scenario somehow prepares us for the worst. But our negativity does not immunize us against the fallout or stress of the worst-case scenarios when they arrive.

It's important to note that most judgmental mom shamers don't actually see themselves as judgmental mom shamers. They just like to share their opinions. Out loud. So here's a really easy, single-question quiz to figure out if you're an ass or not: Does every opinion you have need to be voiced? If your answer is yes, you're an ass.

No matter what you're facing, failure never has to be the end of a sentence. You can always put a nice bold comma on that disaster, take a breath, and continue right on. Hold on, but don't hold still. Keep turning the pages of your story until you reach an easier chapter, and you just might end up somewhere better than where you started. With a fresh, unexpired Starbucks pastry. And enough hope to spare.

I look like a hungover mug shot version of myself without all this crap, and yes, I'm a sucker for products that promise to make me look rested and dewy. And no, they never work, and no, I don't even fully understand the difference between greasy and dewy, but now that I've overpaid for them, we're gonna ride this rocket all the way into the ground!