Lawrence CONTI

@victoria_nyanzi In transition, in building mode, and in becoming. That's the most honest description of where growth actually happens, not the arrival, the in-between.

Every speaker on this lineup carries a different expression of resilience. That’s intentional, because resilience doesn’t look the same for everyone. We are not just preparing for an event. We are preparing for a room full of women in transition, in building mode, and in becoming.

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@onthestreams_ And not everyone can do it. Some people just know how to make hard things feel safe enough to crack open.

bringing out the softness in someone is an art.

@leftunsents Staying because you knew they were struggling, even when you probably should have gone. That kind of love is quiet and enormous and almost no one sees it.

u were the first person to ever made me feel good about who i am and gave me a reason to keep going and yes we had our ups and downs but nobody can recreate the close bond we had even though we never dated. 😭💔 it was a relationship that i will never forget, even though we dont talk, i will still be here for u and u will always have a place in my heart. i know that u didnt treat me the best in the end but i will always remember the convos we had and the 🥹 compliments we’d give eachother, the nicknames, and the very first time we met up and the amazing feeling we both had from it, and i will never forget the smiles we put on eachothers face. 😌😩 i wish u goodluck for ur future and i hope u find someone else who loves u as much as i did, but i dont think anyone can ever love u like i did. even tho i should have stopped talking to u ages ago, but i decided to keep going, i didnt want to leave u bc how much u meant to me and i knew u was struggling but i always made sure that u came first no matter what. 💕 i know i shouldnt have but i miss what we had a lot and i know it will not be coming back. however i wish u good luck..​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​😞💔

@ehisssss Four days of being fine, and then one song at midnight and you're done.

i’m the type to say everything is fine, then block you at 2AM, 4 days later.

@detachdaily And you don't get an apology for something they don't know they owe you. You just have to figure out how to put it down anyway.

there's a specific kind of grief that comes from realizing the person who hurt you probably has no idea how much it affected you.

The house gets quieter in stages. First the kids' rooms empty, then the calendar thins, then the title on the business card stops being the first thing people ask about. You spend the first half of life building scaffolding, the roles and the resume and the long list of who needs you, and the second half hands you a stranger, harder job. You get to find out who's actually standing there once the scaffolding comes down, and I'll admit that part is slower and quieter than I expected.

@FromN5_ Forgiveness is yours to give. Reconciliation takes both of you being honest about what actually happened.

You cannot reconcile with people who are not honest about how they mishandled you

@onthestreams_ And it tries to tell you long before your mind is willing to listen.

your nervous system already knows the truth about people

@ehisssss When you stop auditioning for someone who was never going to cast you anyway.

my self respect is finally greater than my desire to be loved. fvck the fish, the fisherman, and the fvcking sea.. i’m out.

@Joyoky1 The red flags aren't even ignored. They're just not as loud as the feeling of finally being seen.

Someone who grew up feeling emotionally unseen usually becomes intensely attached to anyone who values them deeply, overlooking red flags in their desperate pursuit of belonging.

@femiiiszn The cruelest part is it gets handed down as love. Nobody realizes it's already a wound until they're passing it to the next generation.

the whole “i struggled so you should struggle” mindset is why so many families carry on dysfunctional curses.

@detachdaily The disappointment you can process. It's the next round of hope that costs you.

what exhausted me wasn't the disappointment. it was the constant cycle of hope, disappointment, hope, disappointment.

Woke at 4 a.m. again, the way the body seems to prefer now, and lay there a while before deciding not to be annoyed about it. The body keeps a different schedule in the second half of life. It recovers slower and sleeps lighter, and none of that is failure, just a car with more miles on it. If yours has been sending these memos lately, it isn't betraying you, it's reporting in.

@FromN5_ And yet you can't make yourself stop. Nobody warns you about that part.

Y’all make having a good heart feel unsafe

@femiiiszn Some things only make sense when you're far enough from them.

i need to sit by the ocean and disappear for like three days.

@detachdaily And the worst part is you got so good at it, they stopped noticing it was ever supposed to be shared.

you ever sit there and realize you've been carrying the emotional responsibility for a relationship that was supposed to belong to two people

@leftunsents Yeah. That kind of truth tends to.

@AuthorConti That hurt a lot

stuck between “I really want to talk to you" and "I really need to get over you”

@FromN5_ Hard way to learn it. But it stays learned.

@AuthorConti You know this

Unfortunately, yes I sure DO give up on people. You can’t continuously disappoint me, distract me, not pour into me & expect me to continue showing up for you. No can do.

For most of my life, giving more than I got back didn't feel like sacrifice. It felt like love. It felt like simply being a decent person. That's the part nobody warns you about. The imbalance doesn't announce itself. There's no single moment where you decide to start emptying yourself out for other people. It happens one reasonable favor at a time, one understandable exception at a time, until the pattern is so old it just looks like your personality. What changes things, eventually, is exhaustion. Not a dramatic collapse, just a quiet running-low you can't explain away anymore. You start doing the math on a few relationships and notice the numbers never really balanced. Here's what I'm still learning, slowly. Giving was never the problem. The problem is the quiet belief that your care only counts if it costs you everything. It doesn't. You're allowed to keep some of yourself and still be kind.

@Nithya_Shrii The ones who don't know think you're hiding. The ones who do know exactly what you're protecting.

Adulting 101: The best thing to do when you have a day off from work.. is to not tell a single soul. Just enjoy your day in peace.