“Remember you are someone else’s safe space, someone out there looks to you for hope so maybe you could learn to look to yourself.”

I hope you’re brave enough to let go of a future that was never truly yours, that you never really wanted that was imposed upon you by dreams that were never really your own.

And just like that she became soft with every exhale.

Feeling lost is a sign that you’re finally listening to yourself and no longer conforming to what is expected of you.

Letting go creates the space we need to welcome our wildest manifestations.

You’ll know you’ve healed when you find gratitude in the pain that once broke you.

Maybe this time isn’t about finding love but rather learning how to enjoy your own company instead.

Maybe the lesson is not how best to chase the things we think will make us happy, but learning to be happy wherever we are instead.

Asking for help is one of the bravest things you can do.

You were enough then and you are enough now. Your pain never defined you, and never will.

Nothing is permanent not even your pain.

Being vulnerable is an act of courage it requires you to strip down naked with your heart on display.

We heal by following the example of the healed.

Loving yourself is honoring your boundaries and not tolerating disrespect.

When you find the courage to love your own body, you give people who look like you the permission to do the same.

Self love is not something you feel, but rather something you do each day.

Loving yourself is holding your own hand while you shake with anxiety.

If you just loved me the way that I loved you then just maybe.

I find hope in late summer afternoons.

I am laden with sorrow. But always hopeful of tomorrow.

I can’t promise that tomorrow will be better because I don’t know how long happiness will take to find you I only know it will.

I will bring you all of my dead flowers if you will breathe me a promise of spring.

I don’t know how to explain it – the world feels possible again.

I’ll keep reaching out my hand hoping one day you’ll be brave enough to take it.

When they ask you if love is real, I hope I’ve helped you answer yes.