Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

Love yourself enough to walk into only the rooms and situations that show care and love for you. Love yourself enough to walk out of the rooms that harm you in any way. Love yourself enough to hold the people who harm you accountable for their words and actions. Love yourself enough to express your wants, your needs, and your desires. Love yourself enough to tell the truth. Love yourself enough to keep yourself safe. Love yourself enough to say enough is enough when enough has become enough.

Don’t wait on anyone to tell you what you are worth. You have to be the first person who knows what you are worth and can say what you are worth.

Being weird is when you love yourself enough to liberate yourself from the burden of trying to be normal. It is also when you are smart enough to know that there is no such thing as normal.

Comparison and extreme competition run on insecurities and the belief in scarcity, which inevitably isolates us from one another.

Forgive yourself. Forgive yourself for who you were last week, last month, or last year. Forgive yourself for when you were exhausted and snapped at the people you love. Forgive yourself for not being able to do it all. Forgive yourself for your fears. Forgive yourself for your mistakes. Forgive yourself for eating one cookie too many. Forgive yourself for not being perfect. We often look at forgiveness as an intellectual act, but forgiveness is very spiritual. It is one of the most spiritual things we can do. When we forgive, we acknowledge that we are far bigger and greater than one individual moment. When we forgive, we are saying to the universe: I will not imprison myself or anyone else with anger, shame, judgment, or resentment. Gift yourself this freedom.

Do not ignore your intuition. There is an infinite intelligence within you; let it be your guiding light.

it was time so i said yes i said yes to living i said yes to loving i said yes to being my... self illuminated and unafraid

The only way we can make the most of our lives is to make the most of our moments. Today, wherever you are, decide to stay. We can know the gifts that lie in the present only if we stay in it long enough to receive them.

don’t need to know you to love you.

Keep your inner world loving and hopeful and your outside world will begin to reflect exactly that.

Take risks with faith, not fear.

You are in charge of how much space a thought takes up in your life. Take the time to carefully consider what you let be a part of your being and your spirit.

rumi said: “your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself you have built up against it

Don’t tear yourself down when you have the power to build yourself up.

for real love runs on selflessness, and the ego runs on selfishness.

When we know our value and can express our value, we're able to teach others how to honour what we bring to the table.

Equally, when we attach guilt or shame to receiving, we are blocking our ability to receive in a way that truly nourishes us. Our ability to give is only as powerful as our ability to receive, mostly because the more we can know how to receive, the more we have to give.

Very few breakthroughs come without a few breakdowns along the way. Stay the course. Our personal evolution brings so much brilliance to our life, but it can also bring some pain and discomfort with it. While our spiritual and emotional shifts do bring us closer to our best selves, they also simultaneously move us away from the space in which we may have been comfortably living before. These transitional periods, while necessary to our growth, often leave us feeling incredibly vulnerable. Be gentle with yourself. Moving from where you were to where you are takes some getting used to.

a love note to my body a love note to my body: first of all, I want to say thank you. for the heart you kept beating even when it was broken for every answer you gave me in my gut for loving me back even when I didn’t know how to love you for every time you recovered when I pushed you past our limits for today, for waking up. When you express deep vulnerability or pain, you are still deserving of love.

One of the chief ways you show yourself love is by surrounding yourself with loving people.

We are here to connect, not compare. There is a reason we are not in this world alone. It is because we are all connected and need each other to function peacefully, purposefully, and powerfully. We cannot know happiness or our true power if we are constantly in a state of comparison and competition. Comparison and extreme competition run

the time is always right to reclaim your narrative

I was tired of seeing evil everywhere so I found the heavenly spots and showed my neighbors where they were

And may your first love last forever. P.S. You are your first love. Take care of yourself.

Know the value of knowing your value.

Our dreams are our destiny’s way of communicating with us.

Our mistakes, when met with awareness and personal responsibility are actually what introduces us to our best selves.

When we apply the energy of acceptance to risk-taking, we are able to take risks with much more confidence and steadiness. Acceptance is when we bring trust to a situation. We all take risks, but if we want to master risk-taking we must learn to do so without attaching anxious energy to our decisions. Anxiety disconnects us from our power. Acceptance allows us to relax into our power and move through any circumstance with clarity and confidence.

getting there the mind says: this river has no bottom the heart says: we can build a bridge here

the day I came home and turned on the light to those who did not treat me well and, for some reason, wondered why I left: it is because I remembered that I loved myself more than I loved the idea of an “us” it is because I remembered I was worth more than you could ever give it is because I realized I did not need you because I had me the day I came home and turned the light on