A Letter To My Younger Self: Releasing Parental Guilt

In this deeply personal reflection, Violet shares a letter she wrote to her younger self—offering compassion, forgiveness, and tenderness for choices made in impossible circumstances.

Many parents carry quiet guilt about past decisions—divorce, distance, custody arrangements, or simply doing the best they could with limited support. This track invites you to soften toward your own story, release self-blame, and remember that love can exist across time, distance, and imperfection.

This is a space for honesty, self-forgiveness, and remembering that you were always doing the best you could.

You’re invited to listen with an open heart—and, if it resonates, to write your own letter to your younger self.

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Reviews

Dear Violet thanks for this encouraging letter to little me. I am still working on myself to release those feelings. appreciate your vulnerability, honesty and openness. Best regards.

If I could give this 10 stars, I would! I have listened to this track multiple times and now know what I want to say about it: it’s filled with such bravery, compassion and healing love and I think it’s the perfect expression. I can empathize with it too 💓 Thanks for making this Violet 🙏🏻✨🏆

Thank you so much for sharing this deeply personal letter to your younger self. It whole heartedly resonated with me. I didn’t realize that I myself need to follow in writing to my younger self as a mother. I too was in a very similar situation and went through a divorce with 3 young children and had to move 10 hours away. I died inside and carried that pain and buried it to survive and continue with a new role of being their long distance mother. We got through it and remained very close. Life has a way of overcoming obstacles. This meant so much more to me than you know! So much love to you!! 🙏✨❤️

So beautiful, Violet! Thank you for putting words and compassion to an experience so many of us have had. My heart expanded listening to your vulnerable message. Thank you. 💜💜💜💜

Thank you for your vulnerability in sharing this, it made me cry as I felt the weight of your judgement of yourself and also some of the weight of gender-based judgement, I’m guessing not only from outside but from within. I’m so happy you could offer this hand of acceptance to your younger self, I will have a think about whether I can do the same for myself. Grateful for you and all you do here Violet 💜🤗