Sarah Rafferty Quotes

There's nothing wrong with having a bad day. Let yourself feel those emotions because every emotion is validated.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.

I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.

You need to know that you cannot control your feelings, and you cannot control your feelings about your feelings, but, as best as you can, intellectually understand that your feelings are valid and they're okay and don't try to stifle them or feel shame about them.

I try to take my emotional pulse more now, to recognize when I need to go scream and cry for 20 minutes and then come back to center. Allowing yourself that time, it's a gift.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.

I'm a very open person. I like to talk a lot about what I'm going through. It's how I cope with things.

I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.

It's not that I want to necessarily avoid my darker moments, but I don't capitalize them and put a crown on them and tote them around as the answer anymore.

I began to use my sensitivity. And I realized I wasn't weird because I cried a lot.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

But I don't let my bad feelings rule my life. I acknowledge them because I can't pretend they aren't there.

All my artist buddies make fun of me for being such a sensitive human being.

No matter what feeling comes up - numbness, irritability, shame - if I let it arise and play itself through, I naturally open into wakefulness and care.

Whatever the emotion is, I have learned over the years to give it space, which is also why I love acting.

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so.

Once you just tell yourself, 'OK, I'm going to have a breakdown right now, and I'm going to cry for an hour, put my phone away. I'm going to go swimming, and then I'm gonna make my family dinner and lay on the couch and watch 'Ru Paul's Drag Race,'' once you accept that it's not the day and you can just have a breakdown, you're over it.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

I was raised that emotion was a good thing.

I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.

You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.