Nadia

When there's someone next to her that's really calm and like, you know, girl, you've got this.

Just take a breath.

It's a big thing for me.

I'm a big journal keeper.

And what's been really helpful for the last few years, especially being in a new whole new situation in my life, is that I can watch myself grow from reading back some of these journals.

I really love it.

And I also have a lot of journals where I keep gratitude and things that I feel like, oh, I really grew through this or I handled this differently and I can write it all down and see how much I've changed.

And not everyone can go to a therapist or wants to go to a therapist.

And just by having some of these prompts we've got in the book and writing just what's in your head down on a piece of paper can get it out.

And when I got involved in my relationship,

When I was really, really angry, at least I knew this much.

Do not just vomit it out on him.

Take a moment.

Maybe I went for a walk.

Sometimes I would just write it all down, pages and pages of what was going on inside me.

And as I wrote, I would just start to breathe and feel like,

I'm grounding.

I'm settling.

It's not a threat.

This is going to be okay.