embrace your wholeness
Learning the delicate art of self-acceptance is messy, imperfect, and absolutely thrilling. Sometimes, you linger on the edge of comfort; playing small and contained. Somehow, it feels safer there. Less risk. Less chance of getting hurt, or broken. Somehow, not knowing what it means or feels like to embody self-love becomes a warm soothing blanket that wraps around your shoulders, weighing you down into the earth slowly and painfully. You get caught in the comfort of diminishing. Like a magic act. You just ease into disappearing. The unknown feels scary. And trust me, it should scare you a little bit. But it should also make you curious. Because what awaits you on the other side may be the most magical journey of your life.
The art of becoming. It happens when you decide to stand up, in your full power and your full truth. When you decide to learn from the past versions of who you once were, when you decide what no longer serves you, and you release it with grace to create space for the new, this is what becoming is. Holding your hands to your heart and gently untangling the threads of pain and fear, unravelling and grieving and growing. Making peace with what was. Facing what needs to be faced.Owning is. Owning who you are (all parts of you) with grace and tenderness and a gentle embrace. Growth and healing is not about becoming someone or something different, it is about unbecoming the parts of you that no longer align with the magical, light-bearing path you are headed towards. And you can lovingly wave goodbye to that past version, with gratitude for what they taught you…and embark onto a new, vibrant path.
Photo credit: Marcel Rieder
