Welcome.
I just want to give you a fair warning.
This one's a little salty.
If you choose to still be here,
This is a moment to stop.
Really stop and pause and see that you've been breathing all along and can you now get curious about your breath?
What's the quality of it?
Is it short or jagged?
Uneven?
Maybe getting caught up in your throat?
Whatever your breath is like right now,
It's okay.
You are okay.
You are breathing.
You are pausing.
You are here.
But that's the thing.
Do you ever feel like you have no idea what the fuck you are doing here?
Do you feel lost or weird?
Do you feel like you are too little some days and too much so many others?
Stop.
Pause.
Breathe.
Right now.
It's okay.
And I know you might be thinking it's easy for me to say that it's okay,
But I'm gonna let you in on a little secret.
Most of the time I have no idea what the fuck I'm doing.
I feel lost,
Weird,
Too little,
Too much.
And we can choose to stop,
To pause,
To breathe right now.
To say,
Okay,
That's what I'm feeling.
And it is okay if it feels like you are wearing your insides on the outside.
If you feel so tender and uncertain,
Do your best not to attack you,
But rather to applaud you.
Because feeling like that means you are alive.
It means you are risking real things.
It means you are living with courage bravely from your heart.
And yeah,
Some days it might be too much.
I get it.
And then by all means,
Curl in.
Protect that tender self of yours.
Know that you've got your own back.
You are on your own side.
And when you do that,
Maybe you'll be able to hear the call of that still small voice inside.
The one calling you to satisfy your best hungers.
The hungers that lead you to your best self,
The real self,
The tender self,
The brave self,
Who shows up again and again to live and pause and breathe and move forward into this world that needs you with a wide and open heart.
Live like y'all.
