“Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.” IfsThinkingGivingStillsI CanFeelingsPainMotherCan DoSleepForgetLevelsBrainEmpowermentFunctionIncrediblesScaryVocabularyBeing A MotherGrumpy Author:Anna Friel
“Most people settle for connection, because love's too scary. They don't want to lose that feeling, that super high is too crushing so they settle for the comfort of connection.” PeopleWantFeelingsLosesComfortConnectionsScarySettlingCrush Author:Tony Robbins
“Grief is just so scary.... If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi River. That's what our parents told us. We got sent to our rooms for having huge feelings. In my family, if you cried or got angry, you didn't get dinner.” IfsFeelingsParentRoomsGriefCryTearsHugeRiversMy FamilyAngryScaryDinnerCriedMississippiMississippi River Author:Anne Lamott
“You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.” FeelingsNaturalScaryDisasterHelplessHelplessnessNatural DisasterReally Scary Author:R. L. Stine
“The "r" word [racism] is a scary word to me - I don't like to say it. I'm not trying to say it doesn't exist. It's incredibly inflammatory and invites a lot of awful mistakes and injustices that have happened and still do happen. It's a word that has been thrown around in a way that incites a lot of bad feelings in most people.” PeopleWayTryingHas BeensStillsFeelingsHappensMistakeHappenedRacismInjusticeScaryAwfulThrownInvites Author:Brandi Chastain