“When you write, you believe in something no one else can see. You spend lots of time committed to a project for… — Heather Sellers Confidence Copy Share Image
I started writing everything down.I wrote for the same reason someone lost sticks a message in a bottle. I’m here. Help. Please… — Heather Sellers Bottles Copy Share Image
Trust the comfy clothes you reach for day after day, your plain, regular, essential self. — Heather Sellers Clothes Copy Share Image
“I loved the idea of a subversive world where mental illness was defined as just another version of normal, and education was… — Heather Sellers Mental illness Copy Share Image
“I giggled and he took it very seriously and wrote everything down. I thought it was going too well, I was doing… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is exactly like love. You don’t hold back. You give it everything you have. If it doesn’t work out,… — Heather Sellers Book Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to have clarity,” he said, “to take a clear position.” — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“Don’t get sucked in, Dave was always saying to me. Kind of like Helder’s container idea: Notice everything, but don’t buy into… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“I was going to be in therapy for a long, long time. I wasn’t even a sentence yet. But I had some… — Heather Sellers Long time Copy Share Image
“As children, we are profoundly loyal to our parents, and to their pain: I wanted to be related to my mom, not… — Heather Sellers Children Copy Share Image
“The railing of the balcony was cold but the blue-black night air was so warm in October, in Florida, it felt as… — Heather Sellers Florida Copy Share Image
“I think everyone has one day like this, and some people have more than one. It's the day of the accident, the… — Heather Sellers Midlife crisis Copy Share Image
“Find ways to develop self-awareness so you know what you do well... you do a thousand things brilliantly, and if you don't… — Heather Sellers Knowledge Copy Share Image
“Off and on for many years, I tried to write a book about my childhood. I’d bring chapters to workshop, to writing… — Heather Sellers Books Copy Share Image
“In childhood, it’s our parents who give us our standards for experience: “Here’s an inch,” they say. “And this is a foot.”… — Heather Sellers Children Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t bear to think of my mother loving me but unable to face me, to stare into my eyes, to care… — Heather Sellers Love Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing. — Heather Sellers Be creative Copy Share Image
“Diagnoses, Dave thought, were rough guesses, blunt tools, always more inaccurate than they were helpful.” — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“Writing is a physical art. And writing a book is a lot more like making a complex sculpture out of bronze than… — Heather Sellers Art Copy Share Image
When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life. — Heather Sellers Jokes Copy Share Image
“Mental illness didn’t really change people. It just made them more of who they were going to be anyway. Mental illness was… — Heather Sellers Mental illness Copy Share Image
“I truly missed my parents. I wanted to miss them. It was the only way I could love them, a crazy cocktail… — Heather Sellers Hope Copy Share Image
“I’d set out to write a book about how we learn to trust our own experience in the face of confusion, doubt,… — Heather Sellers Books Copy Share Image
“The feelings are overwhelming, but they’re not you. They’re the feelings. You are separate, and you are strong and amazing and good.” — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
“He said I was learning to talk about my life more objectively so that it felt like a part of my life… — Heather Sellers Life Copy Share Image
