Glennon Doyle

And then I had to spend nine days.

Every night I went to bed reliving what I said.

And in the disgrace.

And then I had to do an apology tour.

And I had to do the whole thing.

And it was a complete mess.

So...

When I have a feeling and then I think there's a way to fix that feeling and it involves someone else, it has never ended well.

Because I think what I'm doing is I'm using a person to regulate myself.

Like, I think being a grown up is learning to regulate yourself without using other people like cat scratching things to regulate your own self.

And every time I use another human being, I use food, use booze, use drugs.

I've tried everything.

I've been to the mountain.

I've been to the...

It also doesn't work with people.

Okay?

And then the cleanup is awful.

And I think the brilliance of what you're teaching is the simplest, hardest thing, which is when the activation happens to sit with it and breathe through it and then wait until the activation passes and you can say to yourself, I don't feel any rage for this person.

I don't feel any bitterness for this person.

I don't feel, it's like a,