.intrepidation and elation.
Let the image go, love. Let yourself lean into what your cells tell you is soothing, within the flow your heartbeat finds rhythm, where your muscles seem to know it’s safe to soften. Let yourself dream in color and shades of health and narratives of joy instead of shrouding yourself in fear and shame. Let the lie of being unworthy and the experience of being unheard lose sight of you as you step forward, traveling towards warmth, embrace, and light. Let the shame that has shrouded you the colorblind eyes that have doubted you embrace distance and un-crowd you. Let your eyes adjust to the light and see there is so much invitation, community, and celebration around you. Let joy, playfulness, and lung-filled laughter that you haven’t visited in decades teach you this dance, doubled-over with glee. Life was always meant to guide us towards being this free. Let your sad stories begin to see: your life has been waiting, your wiring has been whispering, your heart hoping: risk saying yes. Let your ideas of how it should be wouldn’t be can’t be dissolve and digest into groundedness and gratitude. Let the feelings emerging surprise you Let the witness and gaze towards you delight you Let it all see you meet you and let yourself more fully be you. Let each of your parts that accompany you contain you remain in you remove the rigidity and brick walls that drain you, stop siphoning life into siloes of solitude and shame. Let them gather together in unity and collaboration. Their worth does not require remediation for value-designation. They are diversity and abundance leading you away from trepidation towards a completeness and elation. Let your body dance and your voice sing. Let new experiences into your path bring wonder and relaxation. No longer must you remain in classrooms of devastation; a stopover, but never the destination. Let the image go, realize, the shoulds don’t know, in footsteps of self-compassion let yourself, into the wholeness of you, grow.