Even a queen cries.
Close your eyes.
Let's take a breath in together and let it go.
I want to talk to you today about something nobody puts on their vision board.
Nobody makes a reel about it and nobody hashtags it but every single one of us has done it.
Cried in the car.
Cried in the shower.
Cried on our bed.
Cried pressed with our pillow so nobody could hear us.
Cried and then got up,
Fixed our face and went right back out into the world like nothing happened.
I want you to know something today.
That cry,
That wasn't weakness.
That was your crown getting heavy.
Even queens have to set it down sometimes.
There's an idea that strong women don't fall apart.
That if you've done your work,
Read the books,
Say the affirmation,
Build that life that you're not supposed to hurt anymore.
You're not supposed to sit in a quiet apartment at night and feel the weight of everything you're carrying.
But that's a lie somebody told us and we believed it.
We wanted to be strong so badly.
I can tell you what I've learned.
The women who truly are powerful,
Not performing power but living it,
They cry.
Deeply,
Fully and without apology.
Because they understand something that took me a long time to learn.
Feeling it is not the same as being defeated by it.
You can cry about the relationship,
But still know your worth.
You can cry about the job,
The money,
The uncertainty,
But still believe something better is coming.
You can cry about the vision and version of your life that you thought you'd have it down by now.
And still be grateful for the one you're actually building.
The tears don't cancel the faith.
We will not let that happen.
I want you to take a deep breath right now.
Let's do this together.
Think about something you've been holding.
Something you haven't let yourself fully feel because you told yourself you needed to be strong.
It's okay.
This is a safe place.
Nobody's watching.
Nobody needs anything from you right now.
You can just be.
Just be.
Here's what I know about you.
You've carried things that would have normally broken people.
If they didn't have your spirit,
They couldn't have done it.
You have shown up when you had nothing left.
You have smiled through things that deserved tears.
You have been the strong one,
A stable one that everyone else can lean on or doing it all by yourself.
And somewhere along the way,
You forgot that you are also allowed to lean.
You're allowed to not be okay today.
You're allowed to grieve what didn't work out.
You're allowed to be tired.
You're allowed to want more and not have it yet and feel the distance between where you are and where you're going.
All of that is allowed and it's not easy.
All of that is human and all of that is ours.
But here's what I also need you to hear.
The crying is not the ending.
It's the release.
Every time you let yourself feel it,
Really feel it.
Make that room for it.
Room for clarity.
Room for courage.
Room for the next version of yourself to come in and take her seat.
Queens don't avoid hard feelings.
They move through them.
So if you're holding something today,
Let's let it go together.
Take a deep breath in.
If your eyes are wet right now,
Let them be wet.
If something cracked open in your chest while listening,
That's not damage.
That's healing and that's what queens do.
You are not behind.
You are not broken.
You are not too much.
You are enough.
You are the woman that is powerful because even queens cry and they rise and this is exactly what you're doing.
You are safe here.
You are seen here and you are so loved here.
Go be soft tonight.
Go be real tomorrow.
That is strength and you should be so proud.
Good night,
Queen.
