February 2025 Blog Prompt: What is your favorite quote and why does it inspire you?
Contributor of the prompt: *Wil Becker

“Tabitha (cheetah) I should be grateful.  I have a good enough life here.  It’s crazy to long for what doesn’t even exist.

Glennon: You are not crazy. You’re a goddamn cheetah.” 

Untamed by Glennon Doyle.

In 2019, I was feeling like Tabitha.  I felt like a caged, trapped animal in a marriage that had gone flat.  It was a safe marriage, but I felt like I was simply existing rather than thriving.

I saw a clip of an interview between Marie Forleo and Glennon Doyle and I knew I had to read the book right away.  This quote is from that book.

It was an amazing wakeup call for me – to stop existing, stop pretending to be someone I wasn’t.  This book in general, and this quote in particular, gave me the courage to finally (a year later), end my marriage, move towns, create a new life.  I haven’t looked back since.

Women tend to put others first and we get lost in the process.  This quote reminded me that I am so much more than what others expected me to be.

I stopped existing and started to really live.

I still struggle with my people pleasing tendencies; getting lost in other people, trying to be who I think others want me to be.  But it doesn’t last; I keep reminding myself that I am a cheetah and I deserve an amazing life, as do we all.

Despite some major challenges in my life like losing my apartment, almost walking into the water and not come out, having to make some choices I would rather not have made, I am thriving!  

I refuse to settle for good enough ever again and you shouldn’t either.