Letters To A Young Woman - To The One Who Needs Permission

Close your eyes and take a moment to feel your body supported by the surface beneath you.

As you breathe in and out,

With every out breath,

Feel your body sinking deeper into the surface that is supporting you.

Allow yourself to feel held and safe where you are right now.

To the one who needs permission.

Life is a very short and intimate dance with being.

Our time on earth in this precious body is so temporary and makes absolutely no promise of permanence.

There is no wrong way to live your life,

But there is what is true for you and it is your life's work to find it and follow it.

We are each capable of living in comparison,

Fear,

Shame and betrayal.

But the burning,

Searing,

Fizzing light of your life's purpose is infinitely greater and more true.

Many of us were initiated into a world by a society afraid of women's truth and power,

So we may never have felt like we were given permission.

My hope is that these letters serve you in your quest to own your power and celebrate the fact that you are the only one who can grant yourself the gift of a full life.

You have permission to live fully.

You have permission to be heard,

Seen and felt.

You have permission to be loved and hated.

You have permission to love and hate.

You have permission to rage and fury.

You have permission to laugh and dance.

You have permission to go for gold,

To try,

To fail and to try again.

You have permission to squeeze every last drop out of this thing called life.

No one else is going to give it to you.

It already is you.

Say yes.

Father.

You