1. (Source: shetakesflight)

  3. "Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful."
    Mark Victor Hansen 

    (Source: a-recovered-life)

  4. (via a-recovered-life)

  5. "Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light."
    Brene Brown 

    (Source: shetakesflight, via couragehopestrength)

  7. "I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next."
    Gilda Radner
  9. “Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, Yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns. We may want to love other people without holding back, To feel authentic, To breathe in the beauty around us, To dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to the inner voice that keeps our life small.”  Tara Brach It’s the voice that tells us we aren’t good enough. The one that tells us to hold back because we’re bound for failure.  The one that keeps us alone and isolated. We may not be able to prevent the thoughts from appearing in our head, But we do have the power to choose whether or not we listen to them. We have the ability to decide how we act in response to what we feel. It may be easier to agree with the thoughts than to argue against them, but it certainly doesn’t make us feel any better. In choosing what’s easy, you’re choosing to watch your life unfold as a bystander.  You’re choosing to live a limited, half-life. And ultimately, you’re choosing not to live at all. Let today be the day you fight back. The day you reclaim your power. The day you allow your authentic self to shine. It’s time to break free from your chains. Its time to live your life.

    “Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible,

    Yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.

    We may want to love other people without holding back,

    To feel authentic,

    To breathe in the beauty around us,

    To dance and sing.

    Yet each day we listen to the inner voice that keeps our life small.” 

    Tara Brach

    It’s the voice that tells us we aren’t good enough.

    The one that tells us to hold back because we’re bound for failure. 

    The one that keeps us alone and isolated.

    We may not be able to prevent the thoughts from appearing in our head,

    But we do have the power to choose whether or not we listen to them.

    We have the ability to decide how we act in response to what we feel.

    It may be easier to agree with the thoughts than to argue against them, but it certainly doesn’t make us feel any better.

    In choosing what’s easy, you’re choosing to watch your life unfold as a bystander. 

    You’re choosing to live a limited, half-life.

    And ultimately, you’re choosing not to live at all.

    Let today be the day you fight back.

    The day you reclaim your power.

    The day you allow your authentic self to shine.

    It’s time to break free from your chains.

    Its time to live your life.

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My name is Daniell, and I am the creator of the Internal Acceptance Movement (I. A.M.)

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    The purpose of this blog is act as a reminder to other individuals struggling that they are not alone, and to never give up their pursuit of life without their internal demons.

    Whether these demons be an eating disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, depression, low self-esteem anxiety, poor body image, or any other mental health issue, we ALL battle something that makes life hard to cope with.

    The Internal Acceptance Movement is a group geered towards spreading eating disorder awareness and shedding light on how the media distorts our perception of beauty through false advertising, photo shopping, and air brushing techniques.

    I. A.M. stresses that we aren't defined by anything external, such as our weight, appearance, shape, other's opinions of us, our background, our race, etc.

    Rather our internal qualities, such as our character, our passions, our goals, our morals, our attitude, the way in which we treat others--these are truly self defining.

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