Inward

before i could release the weight of my sadness and pain, i first had to honor its existence.

i cannot make you happy, but i can commit to support you in the creation of your own happiness

true power is living the realization that you are your own healer, hero, and leader. it is when you share your truth with compassion and peace. your power grows when you make progress in your own freedom and wisdom. those who are truly powerful do not harm themselves or others; instead, they use their energy to enrich all they know with love.

i do not wish to change the past it made me who i am today i only want to learn from it and live in a new way

a real sign of progress is when we no longer punish ourselves for our imperfections

i want a love that doesn't break one that gives me water when i am consumed by fire one that offers me shelter when i am lose one that helps me see that the hero i am looking for is me

i closed my eyes to look inward and found a universe waiting to be explored

a hero is one who heals their own wounds and then shows others how to do the same

i can only give to you what i have already given to myself i can only understand the world as much as i understand myself

if you measure the length of your ego, it will equal the distance between you and your freedom if you are far away from yourself, how could you ever be close to another?

sometimes deeper mental clarity is preceded by great internal storms healing yourself can be messy seeing yourself through honesty can be jarring and tough; it can even temporarily cause imbalance in your life it is hard work to open yourself up to release your burdens like removing thorns from your body, it may hurt at first, but it is ultimately for your highest good the dark clouds of rainfall are necessary for new growth.

don't run away from heavy emotions honor the anger; give pain the space it needs to breathe this is how we let go

Do not forget To send your love Into the earth Into the water Into the sky

you have walked through fire survived floods and triumphed over demons remember this the next time you doubt your own power

much of my confusion and sadness came from being disconnected from myself. the greatest journey i have taken so far is the one where i ended the alienation between me and all that i am, the once where i connected my light and my darkness, where i united what i wanted to know with what i did not want to face. only through this union and truthfulness did i begin to feel at home within my own being.

you were born to create let it flow

self-love is a sincere acceptance of the past an agreement to make the most of the present and a willingness to allow the best to occur in the future

i kept running away from my darkness until i understood that in it i would find my freedom

reminder: a sign of growth is being okay with not being okay

your growth in the midst of a big leap forward; hold steady and allow yourself to bloom.

sometimes people are simply meant to teach you how not to act in the future

letting go is medicine that heals the heart letting go is a habit that requires practice letting go is best done through feeling, not thinking

the most widespread affliction that people suffer from is a lack of belief in their own power to be so broken to have fallen so deeply that the only thing you can do is rise into a new you

real love began when we both stopped expecting and instead focused on giving

sometimes growth hurts, but it is the type of pain that is easier to endure because it is helping us come forward as a better version of ourselves.

as she looked into her past, she noticed that the road she had traveled was no simple straight line. her journey toward fully loving herself and the world was full of forward and backward movement, twists, turns, detours, and even some pauses. at times, she doubted her progress, her potential, and even her power to change. but today, with the wisdom of experience at hand, she knows she could not have gotten to where she is without every movement she has ever made. (experience)

do not confuse self-love with thinking that you’re better than everyone else true self-love is accepting yourself for all that you are, especially the darkest parts

to expect another to resolve all of our issues and give us the happiness we desire is to expect to see the sunrise without opening our own eyes. it is to ask a river to give us nourishment without dipping our own hands into the water. another cannot answer a riddle that was only ever meant for our own minds to solve. the universe seeks to enlighten and empower us, thus it is only rational that we are our own greatest healers.

three things make life harder: not loving yourself refusing to grow not letting go

ask yourself: is this worry real or is my mind just looking for something to grab onto?