Bellamy Young
Bellamy Young
Bellamy Young is an American actress, singer and producer, best known for her role as First Lady of the United States Melody "Mellie" Grant in the ABC drama series Scandal. In 2014, for her portrayal of Mellie, Young won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth19 February 1970
CityAsheville, NC
CountryUnited States of America
kindness generosity helping
From the fear and constriction that's sort of always pulling us back and keeping us in old modalities, I feel like any expansive act of kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity, helps tip the scale toward a more conscious, liberated existence for everyone.
universe
The smallest act has repercussions for the universe.
I have to meditate before I go to bed, always. I have to let the day go and let the eternal in.
sleep
Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.
dream done
I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don't want to take anybody else's work with me.
stronger
The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.
pain joy welcome
I have to welcome the pain like I welcome the joy.
pain trying
The pain is always bringing me a lesson. If I listen to the lesson when the pain is manageable, the pain won't get gargantuan and flatten me entirely, because I will have received the message at the center. I receive it as gently as I can, because the cruelest thing that I do to myself is try to push myself through an experience.
lonely gratitude hurt
If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.
heart blessing giving
I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.
animal
I foster a lot. Not humans, animals.
black messy difficult
Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.
being-yourself dad just-be-yourself
My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.
meditation singing solace
I wouldn't make it through the day without singing. It is my solace and my meditation and my release. It lets me know how I'm processing things, what I'm processing, if I'm out of touch in some area.