#cherylstrayed

[itsredwritinghood]

@cherylstrayed ‘s book #tinybeautifulthings took me back to the days where I had to wake up before dawn to ride the bus across SF to my high school. It was a long ride and most of the time I spent it listening to my Walkman and watching the city wake up, but sometimes I would come across a newspaper someone had left behind and I would read articles, check out my horoscope, laugh with the funnies of the day, and of course read the advice columns. I loved reading the newspaper and miss it to this day. Advice columns give us pointers on life’s problems, but they also show us that we are not alone in our struggles. This is a great collection of letters and answers, many of which I will be mulling over for weeks to come I’m sure, but the one that is most pertinent to me right now as I revise my manuscript yet again is “your book doesn’t have a birthday yet.” I’m going to keep this in the back of my mind and start making plans for a book birthday party cause I’m gonna go all out. #bookstagram #bookgeek #bookworm #booknerd #cherylstrayed #bookish #audiobooks #reesesbookclub #bibliophile #bookaddict #bookaholic #bibliotherapy #books #readersofinstagram #reading #read https://www.instagram.com/p/CnQlg4mLLld/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#tinybeautifulthings #bookstagram #bookgeek #bookworm #booknerd #cherylstrayed #bookish #audiobooks #reesesbookclub #bibliophile #bookaddict #bookaholic #bibliotherapy #books #readersofinstagram #reading #read

[when-the-cities-burn]

#QuoteOfTheDay: #CherylStrayed

[jimfostercoc]

Cheryl Strayed, author of "Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar," talks about how we can't convince people to love us, and why we should buy ten books of poetry and read them each five times. The full interview from a 2012 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" can be heard now wherever you get your podcasts.

#advice #book #cherylstrayed #conversationsonthecoast #dearsugar #hulu #jimfoster #life #love #poetry #reading #sanfrancisco #selfhelp #tinybeautifulthings

[sowingseedsandshootinghoops]

What is Love?

Note on the text: I used the 2022 edition of Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar as published by Vintage Books

Love. Human being have been searching for love, chasing it, since time immemorial. And love is the number one topic of discussion in this 21st century version of Dear Abby.

The most beautiful thing about life as I see it is that we are the ones who “get to define the terms” of our own lives (18). No one else gets to do that. Same with love, no one gets to really tells us what love is. We get to decide that for ourselves. There is a sense in which love can be whatever it is that you need it to be because there’s a degree to which it is subjective. And people’s inability to understand that is at the core of why many people remain in unhealthy relationships for as long as they do. They know, somewhere in the back of their mind, that the spouse who abuses them does not really love them, yet they choose to force themselves to believe that the other person loves them just because they say that they do, and that’s why they stay in those relationships for far longer than they have to. They stay because they force themselves to believe what the other person says when they say “I love you” even if the person being abused knows without a doubt that they would not treat another person that they loved the way that their spouse, in this example, is treating them. 

Love is, and can be, a multitude of things. It can be as “light as the hug we give a friend or as heavy as the sacrifices we make for our children. It can be romantic, platonic, familial, fleeting, everlasting, conditional, unconditional” among many other things (15). The point is that love can be anything that you need it to be and only you get to decide what love is for you. 

Love is an essential part of what it means to be human. It’s in your core. It rises above all of our superficial wants and desires. There is a difference between you not getting the love that you deserve vs you simply not getting what you want, and the difference is simple yet profound: our core doesn’t go away. Interests change and desires fade but what it’s in your core doesn’t and “the truth that lives there will eventually win out. It’s a god [that] we must obey, a force that inevitably brings us to our knees” (174). It’s up to you to decide (and define) what love means to you, and its also up to you to get the type of love that is most meaningful for you. The kind that nourishes your unique body and soul. It’s your life. Don’t let anyone else live it for you. 

#love #cherylstrayed #sugar #dearsugar #tinybeautifulthings #standupforyourself

[micheleksdare]

Van Life Dream – Running From, and Running To

One thing that has always held me back is someone asking me why I want to do something. I understand a lot of it is just plain curiosity with no underlying nasty-ass motive, though for me there has been a fair amount of questioning that did have nasty and cruel undertones and motives. But those motives aren’t mine to deal with and if someone is butt-hurt over that, that’s on them and not me. The…

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#AbortionRights #CherylStrayed #EatPrayLove #ElizabethGilbert #GoFundMe #IStandWithUkraine #RobynDavidson #Tracks #Wild #Blog #Breaking Radio Silence #Conversations from the Road

[inge-universe]

Cheryl Strayed - Wild @cherylstrayed #cherylstrayed #cherylstrayedwild @cheryl.strayed.journey @pacificcrestwanderer @last4walker @lsamsterdam @notcherylstrayed #wild #leesclub #samenlezenwe #samenlezenwebiografieen #samenlezenwebiografieën De mooie @uitgeverijrainbow versie. Wie heeft hem al gelezen? En wie heeft de film gezien? Bedankt Claudie @clauengar ............ De nummer 1-bestseller uit Amerika Een krachtig memoir dat recht uit het hart komt: het verhaal van een jonge vrouw die op het dieptepunt van haar leven een 1700 kilometer lange solo-hike maakt. De tocht is slopend, zowel emotioneel als fysiek, maar maakt haar uiteindelijk sterker dan ooit. `Spectaculair en aangrijpend een adembenemend verhaal. The New York Times `Geweldig, oprecht en meeslepend. Marie Claire `Ik hou van dit boek. Ik wil het van de daken schreeuwen en over het web roepen. Ik hou zoveel van dit boek dat ik niets liever wil dan er zo veel mogelijk over praten. Oprah Winfrey over haar keuze voor Wild in Oprahs Book Club 2.0 Op haar zesentwintigste bevindt Cheryl Strayed zich in een diep dal: haar moeder is overleden en ze ligt in scheiding. Ze neemt haar meest impulsieve beslissing ooit en begint aan een voettocht van 1700 kilometer langs de Pacific Crest Trail in het westen van Amerika. Helemaal alleen, zonder ervaring en met een veel te zware rugzak. Drie maanden lang doorstaat ze intense hitte en meters sneeuw, wordt ze geconfronteerd met beren en ratelslangen, en ervaart ze de schoonheid, maar ook de verschrikkelijke eenzaamheid van de tocht. Met spanning, warmte en humor en in een meeslepende en sprankelende stijl vertelt Cheryl Strayed haar verhaal. Wild is het levendige verslag van de intense angst maar ook het enorme plezier die ze beleefde tijdens de reis die haar leven voorgoed zou veranderen. ............ #instabook #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #bookstagramnl #bookstagrammers #instaboek #boekstagram #boekenwurm #booktrovert #books #bookmail #dutchbookstagram #reading #boekenpost #biografie #lezenisleuk #detective #mystery #dutchbookstagrammers #dutchbookstagrammer #non-fictie #biografieën https://www.instagram.com/p/CpF4oxPIQik/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#cherylstrayed #cherylstrayedwild #wild #leesclub #samenlezenwe #samenlezenwebiografieen #samenlezenwebiografieën #instabook #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #bookstagramnl #bookstagrammers #instaboek #boekstagram #boekenwurm #booktrovert #books #bookmail #dutchbookstagram #reading #boekenpost #biografie #lezenisleuk #detective #mystery #dutchbookstagrammers #dutchbookstagrammer #non #biografieën

[loisrileydurham]

#QuoteOfTheDay #CherylStrayed #quote #quotes

[filmnoirsbian]

Please read this. Haven’t cried this hard in a long long time.

https://open.substack.com/pub/cherylstrayed/p/dear-sugar-letter-30?r=19weav&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

I'm sure it's very affecting but I'm not signing up for a free trial that I will inevitably forget about

#asks

[beadsofparadisenyc]

Dear Sugar, we love your words and we know “tiny beautiful things” is not about beads or jewelry; buutttttt we counter that with the love and honor the symbolism and meaning and sentimentality that jewelry holds and we treasure each and every jewelry design project and beloved jewelry repair and delightful purchase you bring to our counter. Jewelry is pretty, sure, but it’s so much more because of the memories they hold — who gave them to you, what what the occasion, what memory is tucked inside the meaning, what you accomplished and what you aspire to. All of it. We’re here for it. And we agree that’s something to be buzzed by joy about, Claire. Make something for you now, something for the journey, to commemorate the moment, to remind you of how you wish to grow. Or just because it’s pretty and it strikes you, because that counts too! It becomes a part of your story. #tinybeautifulthings #tinybeautifulthingshulu #dearsugar #cherylstrayed #clairekinkade #kathyrnhahn #treasures #beads #jewelry #customjewelry #diyjewelry #gemstonebeads #sentimentaljewelry #heirloomjewelry #jewelryrepair #beautifulthings #gems #happyplace #goodvibes #honoryourself #love #shop #nyc #treasuremaker #unionsquare #beadsofparadise

[kimmccreight]

A New Years Story: Last year, I posted a photo of myself in an IronMan CA shirt and announced my plan to go for it. Among the many problems with this was that I couldn’t swim freestyle (yes, I’d swam the A. C. Half’s 1.2 mi. breastroke-ish—trust me the pack of other torpedo shaped athletes LOVED it). Enter @annaeilinsfeld and her high EQ sit on the bottom of the pool, dive for this ten pound brick repeatedly—coaching. It worked. Anna somehow taught me to swim with my actual face in the actual water (no matter what my Apple Watch has to say about my form). THANK YOU, Anna. Enter coach @gregoryjclose who very calmly, at our first meeting, informed me that the bike I’d been speeding around NYC on had no breaks. Who very supportively said you can definitely do the California Ironman. But over the summer I was given the chance to work on something I’d dreamed about for years. An around-the-clock kind of situation. I did keep training. Until one day, after writing for hours and swimming an hour I exhaustedly headed out for a bike ride. And at the very bottom of the VERY, very tall hill I was living on—my tire popped very nearly sending me flying into traffic. And even then, as I was pushing the bike back up the hill, sliding down in my bike shoes, I was like: “That’s okay. I will start again tomorrow.” And I probably would have. Luckily at that exact moment I was listening to @cherylstrayed and @glennondoyle talk about how sometimes giving up IS a victory. And, I thought: oh, wait… I deferred my Ironman race that day. Signed up instead for the Utah 70.3 this coming May—a compromise. (Although Greg Close did also kindly say, “I’m sorry—which race?” Apparently, Utah has hills.) But for sure when I look back on 2022, it isn’t as the year I quit the Ironman. It’s as the year, maybe, I really learned how to swim. As for 2023, my wish is this: To accept failure as a necessary part of every worthy thing. To know that today’s defeat is inevitably tomorrow’s wisdom. And to remember that true courage lies in the willingness to try again, whatever that really means. Happy New Year 💗 (P.S. See you in 2023, California IronMan) #newyearseve #newyear #author (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm2LlBaAcWk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#newyearseve #newyear #author

[mayaandava]

“There’s a sunrise and a sunset every day and you can choose to be there or not. You can put yourself in the way of beauty.” - @cherylstrayed (at PNW) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch4-0iFLItB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[salsa8486]

Mindfulness Meditation. 😘💕🙏🏻 🙏🏿 🙏🏽 🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 #love #helpeachother #lovingkindness #anxiety #forgiveness #kindnessmatters #kindness #bekindalways #mindfulness #metta #meditation #mindful #bekindtoyourself #smallthingsmatter #leobuscaglia #smiling #beinginthemoment #mindfulpath #grateful #gratefulheart #gratitude #nonjudgemental #lovethyneighbor #selfcompassion #compassion #goodheart #liveinthemoment #selflove #cherylstrayed (at Waltham, Lincolnshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdhMxTPo8Dp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#love #helpeachother #lovingkindness #anxiety #forgiveness #kindnessmatters #kindness #bekindalways #mindfulness #metta #meditation #mindful #bekindtoyourself #smallthingsmatter #leobuscaglia #smiling #beinginthemoment #mindfulpath #grateful #gratefulheart #gratitude #nonjudgemental #lovethyneighbor #selfcompassion #compassion #goodheart #liveinthemoment #selflove #cherylstrayed

[americanahighways]

REVIEW: May Erlewine "Tiny Beautiful Things"

REVIEW: May Erlewine "Tiny Beautiful Things" @mayerlewine @theokatzman @hellowendypr @cherylstrayed #JohnApice #americanamusic #tinybeautifulthings

May Erlewine – Tiny Beautiful Things This Michigan-based artist’s songs focus on empowerment, heartbreak, emotional exchanges & sharing your life with others. It’s at once enthusiastic & optimistic. Unlike others I’ve heard this year — she’s not a downer. May Erlewine (lead vocals/guitar on “He Knows”) has all the standard folk singer common stock in her repertoire but thankfully she isn’t like…

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[musingmargaret]

Now is a good time to reread something you love... x

#reading #bookstagram #bookshelf #plath #ariel #thegoldfinch #tartt #markmason #johngreen #anabundanceofkatherines #wild #cherylstrayed #positiveenergy #love #books #poetry #spring

[stumblingoverchaos]

From my Good Omens art journal. Collage, sticker, daily calendar page, Permopaque marker. # "You have to say, 'I am forgiven' again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself." -Cheryl Strayed #artjournal #artjournaling #visualjournal #visualjournaling #quotes #collage #artjournalpage #artjournals #artistsoninstagram #visualjournals #sticker #stickers #goodomensfanart #goodomensartjournal #goodomens #crowley #cherylstrayed #cherylstrayedquotes #permopaque https://www.instagram.com/p/CAC_K9nAphL/?igshid=15i61qumhy1rg

#artjournal #artjournaling #visualjournal #visualjournaling #quotes #collage #artjournalpage #artjournals #artistsoninstagram #visualjournals #sticker #stickers #goodomensfanart #goodomensartjournal #goodomens #crowley #cherylstrayed #cherylstrayedquotes #permopaque

[micheleksdare]

Writing About Fear Is Not Easy

Writing About Fear Is Not Easy

For me, writing about fear is not easy not because I’m revealing things that show I’m vulnerable, but because I have been afraid of how my vulnerabilities will be received. And in the past, they weren’t always received very well. In fact, I’d say most of the time they were minimized, deflected, or rejected outright. I’ve always thought I was being too hard on people who minimize, deflect, and…

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#AnneRice #BreakingRadioSilence #CherylStrayed #DemiLovato #ElizabethGilbert #Fear #ShondaRimes #TaylorSwift