“What you feel shapes your perceptions. What you feel filters how you listen and determines the selected bits of fact you hear. What you feel drives your choices. What you feel is your reality. So if your current reality is loneliness, unworthiness, anger, or shame, why not fashion a story that causes you to feel something different, something better. Is the story exactly what you are living now? Of course not. You can’t feel loneliness and live love. You cannot feel shame and live unapologetic autonomy. But if you make up a new narrative about yourself and go straight to the feeling of what you most want to feel, then your reality can break an unhealthy, painful cycle. It’s not important that the story be true. What’s important is that it changes how you feel, so that your reality transmutes into love, autonomy, and joy.” -Amy Larson, amyjalapeno.com