Brain food

Emotions are now categorised, celebrated, vilified, repressed, manipulated, humiliated, adored and ignored. Rarely, if ever, are they simply honoured.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Self-care is not self-indulgence, it’s self-preservation.

Where you stumble and fall, there you discover gold.

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our sense to grow sharper.

The secret of change is to spend all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

We overeat, not because we enjoy food too much; it is because we don’t enjoy it enough.

So I take this word reconciliation and I use it to reconcile people back to Mother Earth, so they can walk this land together and heal one another because she’s the one that gives birth

The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.

No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough.

We cultivated our land, but in a way different from the white man. We endeavored to live with the land; they seemed to live off it. I was taught to preserve, never to destroy.

It’s amazing what you accomplish, if you do not care who gets the credit.

…To find another’s voice, follow your own voice, wait until that voice becomes a private ear listening to another…

People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases like ‘be realistic’.

You have to be odd to be number one.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.

Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Writing is not an escape. It’s a way I connect to myself, to get to know myself better.

While many silently suffer inside a suit of shining armour, the truly courageous take off their armour and allow themselves to be vulnerable.

Patience is also a form of action.