CHRIS RUDEN
“I pretend like everything was okay, but inside I was dying. Just because someone says something about you doesn’t make it true. I love how my story can potentially help people. Everyone has the potential to improve their quality of life even if it’s just improving the internal narrative most of us tend to struggle with.” People Magazine
CAYLEE BLOSENSKI
“What I didn’t lose? My passion, dreams and drive or the ability to do things I had always loved doing before my diagnosis. Determination and hard work can truly carry you far, even when something traumatic happens in your life. Whatever hurdles you face on your journey, keep believing in yourself and don’t give up. You will have your back handspring moment and it will get easier from there. I promise.” GL
“I empower her to understand that she has to count it all as joy. Even her mistakes, her failures, her triumphs, what she looks like, all of it. That’s all a part of her loving herself, even if none of those things change. So I just tell her she’s worth it. Even if I am combing her hair, and she’s crying… she does not have to be a perfect little girl. There’s no such thing. It’s okay to be vulnerable, and there’s strength in vulnerability.” -People
VIOLA DAVIS
“When I was a young scrappy girl growing up, I realized we were poor. But I was making my way through it. You either hope or you don’t. And it was hope and dreams that made me put my feet to the floor every morning and just approach every day with a sense of enthusiasm. It was my fight or flight that kicked in.” People Magazine
VIOLA DAVIS
“I always feel like I have to go back and heal that little girl who grew up in poverty, who was called names and ‘ugly’ all the time. Until someone told me, “Maybe you need to let the little girl heal you at 54. Maybe you need to allow the little girl to be excited at the 54-year-old she gets to become.” Because actually, she did pretty good. She was a survivor. She got out of it. And it makes me look at my past completely differently when I see that.” People Magazine