Refuse to remain stagnant

Refuse to remain stagnant. Stop accepting the status quo. Don’t let society dictate how you feel or live or love. Not one more day of allowing your past or your family or your community to choose your life for you. Reject the idea that you must settle for...

Hold yourself to high standards

Hold yourself to high standards. Own your integrity. Insist on it with ferocity. Be just as relentless with graceful acceptance of your own messy and flawed humanity. Most importantly, be rooted fully in constant and steady forgiveness of self.

Keep your head up

Keep your head up. Keep your gaze steady. Your heart is bruised but still beating. Your doubts are strong but not winning. Your demons are loud but not rising above your knowing. Keep breathing as deep as you are able. Hold tight to your intuition. You are still in...

It hadn’t been easy

It hadn’t been easy. She’d been through the fire, that girl, and lived to tell the tale. And live she did. Fiercely. Beautifully. With sovereignty and power and grace. Day by ordinary day, building herself a life she deeply wanted to belong to.