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October 11, 2021

A letter to the lost women…

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It wasn’t that long ago I thought that I was lost forever. I was fighting for things that I knew in my heart and soul weren’t serving me. I was fighting for toxic relationships, ones based on lies and facades. I was fighting for values and beliefs that I didn’t even stand for. I was fighting for the least authentic version of myself.

Looking back I am not sure when the exact moment was that I had fully slipped away from myself. I ran away deep into the forest, this forest swallowed me whole. I got so turned around in the tall trees, grassy, mossy trails but most of all I got mesmerized by the forests beauty, the light shining through, the dark spots in the night and the beautiful melody she sang to put me to sleep. I was taken captive of her for years, avoiding the reality of my life and before I knew it was so misdirected and lured by the mystery of the shadows it took over me.

I was so disconnected from myself that I had completely lost sight of who I was as a person. When I started to come out of the darkness, and it was dark, lonely, suffocating and all consuming my sight was narrow and constricted. It took years for my eyes to readjust to the true light and the beauty within that. I felt so broken and deflated that I didn’t even know where to start to repair myself.

It took me years to come back, to come back home to a place that once resided. Once I arrived home it felt so familiar and comfortable. I had spent so many years in the forest of darkness that home was a distant memory but coming back was a sweet reunion with self.

I share this as an manifesto to the women who have lost themselves…

To all the women who diminish themselves

To all the women who put themselves last

To all the women who make excuses for why they are still in relationships that aren’t serving them.
To all the women who feel they aren’t enough

To all the women who think they can’t

To all the women who believe they aren’t worthy enough

To all the women who believe there is no light big enough to step into

I am here to tell you, you are enough

You are worthy, beautiful, powerful and embodied goddesses.

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