There is not just one version of you that exists. To some, you are the beauty standard. To others, you are easily overlooked. To some, you are a genius at your craft. To others, you are irrelevant. To some, you are an incredible friend. To others, you are a complete stranger. To some, you are a life partner. To others, you are not someone they’d even date. To some, you are a teacher. To others, you are a student. To some, you are a guide. To others, you are a beginner. To some, you are a shining light. To others, you reveal their darkness. The reality is that you exist in so many different forms and images and projections—and yet, the only one that is ever really going to matter is the way you see yourself. Allow this knowing to free you. Allow it to help you see that maybe there is more dimension, more contrast, more nuance, and more goodness within you than you have ever allowed your-self to believe. Brianna Wiest For the overthinkers: Letting go is as effortless as an exhale. You do it all the time. There are thousands of things you’ve simply re-leased into the night, that ended the moment you fell asleep and your eyes opened again in the morning. There are so many thoughts, fears, beliefs, items, relationships, choices, decisions, feelings that you have simply let go. I hope you will recognize that release is part of your system, it’s not something you have to force yourself to do. It’s something you practice with the little things, so when the big things come, you’re ready. Brianna Wiest For the moments you feel the need to be perfect: It can begin with a one-time event — typically some form of sudden loss that disrupts our projection of what the future might be. However, the true work of healing is allowing that disruption to wake us from a deep state of unconsciousness, to release the personas we adapted into, and begin consciously piecing together the full truth of who we were meant to be.

Thought Catalog Books is the book publishing house that lives inside the Thought Catalog universe. Founded in 2012, we’re one of the most innovative and fastest-growing small businesses in the book publishing world.The experiences that catalyze healing are not trying to prompt us to simply recover from a blow to the ego, but for the first time, in many cases, to recognize our ego at all. It is a moment of reconciliation where we are asked to realize that, in the words of Michael Murphy, a greater life is pressing to be born.

Actually, things are really right, which is why you finally feel safe enough to feel what you really feel. Stop projecting. Stop telling stories. Those dull, unsettling feelings are not in the future—they’re in the past. Healing is not so much a chapter in your story but changing the way you write the entire book. Brianna Wiestliked that she mentioned good tips on how to construct your own goals and also that she mentioned how to talk to your future self, other than that it bores me so much Read more At Thought Catalog Books, we take great pride in publishing our authors and harnessing deep bonds with them. With this author-first approach to book publishing, we have created numerous best-selling print books, audiobooks, and eBooks in over 30 languages. So if you're ready to heal, transform, and reclaim your life, then "This Is How You Heal" is the book you've been waiting for.

One of the strengths of “When You’re Ready, This Is How You Heal” is the author’s ability to provide readers with a safe and supportive environment in which to explore their emotions. Wiest writes with empathy and compassion, using personal anecdotes and insights to illustrate key points and help readers relate to the material. When you’re ready to heal, you will need to lay yourself down in a very safe space and focus on those tense feelings. Have them show you their origins. You will begin to see moments you forgot about, feelings you forgot you ever felt. The past will come up in blinks and vignettes. Slowly, over time, you will awaken to what is really wrong—which is the piece of you that had to break off and build a wall around your heart because behind it was a wound you did not yet know how to heal. All the time you spent feeling so uncomfortable was just your deepest self trying to speak to you, trying to remind you of its presence.

You can live within the questions. Life doesn’t start when we’re set on the answers, it unfolds within the questions themselves. Brianna Wiest For the self-abandoners: Your first and most crucial task is your commitment to your own becoming. It is from this garden that all else is harvested. Your first purpose is just to be here. To be weird and ordinary and exceptional. To think and feel and know and wonder. To build yourself into a person you are proud to be, even if nobody else is clapping. Brianna Wiest For the times you can’t let go:

When we claim ownership over the unique destiny that is meant to be ours, the collective heals with us, because we are all pieces of the whole. Perfection will be impossible, as it is within the contrast that this world becomes what it is meant to be—a training ground for soul development. This is not about trying to take the world and make it what we think its most perfect iteration might be, but to finally do what we had intended all along: to awaken, to remember, to witness our own seeds of potential take root. You will need to shake. You will need to lay on the floor and literally shake out everything you’re holding. You will need to let yourself feel vulnerable and small—both of which are, at the end of the day, the two feelings we guard ourselves against the most.Everything that is meant for you will feel like a deep exhale, as though you are returning home to a place you forgot existed. Brianna Wiest For when you’re afraid to be fully yourself: