Beautiful girl, when you are finished falling, after you
hit rock bottom and watch yourself come apart into a million
pieces, no one is staying to help you collect yourself, no one is
sticking around to pick through your pieces to decide which parts
of you are worth keeping. That’s for you to decide. So stay
down for as long as you need to. This is the most important part.
Take your time. Pay attention. You already broke. So the easy
part is over. Go slow.... I know, you thought the breaking was
the most painful chapter. It wasn’t. Turn the page. The next
part is much longer. It’s the healing. The rise. The comeback.
It’s the birth of the new you. And it’s not easy. But you are
strong and brave and worth it. You’ll have to leave a lot of
yourself behind, you’ll have to let go of all the parts of you
that you’ve outgrown. We’re not making ourselves small
anymore. We’re not bending to fit where we don’t belong
anymore. Do you hear me? We’re going all in. Count your wounds,
every scar ripped open, every drop of blood you bled like a
promise, every tear you cried like a bet in the name of crossing
your whole heart, your whole soul, was all for this moment. Right
here. Right now. You had to hurt like that to get here to this
version of you who knows exactly who she is, who she’s not, who
she will never be again. Drop the apologies, babe. We’re not
sorry anymore for who we are, we’re not sorry for what we had
to do to get here, and we’re not sorry for the time it took to
learn our worth. Step out of the box of all you were supposed to
be, according to everyone who wasn’t you, and walk into the
you, who’s comfortable in her own skin. It’s time. You earned
it. We no longer wear the expectations of anyone else and we no
longer let anyone else decide what we’re worth. Because we know
now. We finally know. And now it’s time to celebrate it. Get
up, babe. It does not hurt anymore. Now go show YOU what you’re
made of.