You Are a Badass

surrounded by people. And one of the most basic common human needs is connection. I then proceeded to spend two months traveling ...

lose their power over you. 2. FLIP THE FEAR When you find yourself letting fear push you around, look at it from a different per ...

terrible. What happens if it’s terrible? If it’s terrible I’ll look stupid. Then what? People will make fun of me. Then what? I’ ...

write it and having it be terrible or never going for it and living an unlived life of mediocrity, wimpiness; and shame? Living ...

Is anything scary happening to you right now at this very moment? Right now, where you’re sitting, is anything bad actually happ ...

much better equipped to deal with whatever situation it is that you’re headed for, but that, nine times out of ten, it’s much sc ...

isn’t about being in denial or out of touch with what’s going on in the world, it’s about how much of this information you reall ...

ANYTHING UPSETTING IN BED AT NIGHT Our minds turn into gigantic magnifying glasses that make all our fears 100 percent bigger wh ...

your body one by one, slowly and intentionally, so that it takes up all the room in your brain that you were using to freak out ...

And you will be invincible. ...

CHAPTER 21: MILLIONS OF MIRRORS No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. —Eleanor Roosevelt; activist, feminist, ...

valuable, and often alarmingly intimate, information about who they are as soon as we meet them. If we pay attention, we can pic ...

right out of the gate. All of this information then goes through the filter of who we are, and depending on our perceptions and ...

awesome, they’re reflecting back something that you see in yourself that you like (even if it’s not developed in you yet). I kno ...

nervous or insecure and have terrible manners C) See this as a green light because “they are in so much pain that they need to a ...

how much, or how little, you love yourself. We attract people into our lives for a reason, just as they attract us into theirs. ...

BFFs do (unless they’re being momentarily annoying, and then we can thank them, too). Don’t miss the glorious opportunity to lea ...

part of me that I was ashamed of. Hence, I was much less threatened by women who came at me with a power drill than women who ca ...

rings when summoned by the fluttering hand of a soon-to-be bride, and a pro at the girly-girl gang greeting: Arms raised high in ...

never met but was sure was pinker than Pink. I imagined a full-on sorority scene, complete with painting our toenails while havi ...