“I’m losing the person who I basically talk to from sun up to sun down. I’m losing the person who I tell all my frustrations to. I’m losing the first person I tell all my news to. The person I tell all the stuff I geek about even the stuff she might not understand. I’m losing the small things…..That’s really what it is. The intimacy of it all.”
“I won’t fully let myself strip down to the bare, the raw. I am just a being working through emotions. I don’t want to be that vulnerable. I don’t want to be that raw. I don’t want people to see that.”
“You can’t change your feelings. You can’t turn them off”
“The hardest part of meditating is learning that the mind and body is one but acknowledging the mind and heart as separate”
“I’ve always been so strong. I always bounce back…. but now…I’m just tired. I don’t want to fight….I feel like I’ve lost so many people.. I’m just tired. It’s draining. I don’t want to feel it.”
LaDawn Manuel (24)
LaDawn Manuel 