Are you trying to compete with someone outside yourself? Are you competing with a different version of YOU? Change doesn't come with checks an balances. It is not pretty wrapped in a beautiful bow. It takes work and is not easy at all. The ugly truth is better than a pretty lie. You owe it to YOU to be honest with YOU. Acceptance is the first step to growth. Only YOU can validate YOU in the truest sense of the word. Don't worry be happy to be YOU! YOU are beautiful, YOU are bold, YOU are you. And I am me, the only person I can BE. SO HAPPY TO BE ME!!!

Would you do it over, if you had to do it again? Do you wish you had taken the easy route? Hindsight is 20/20 for a reason. To know what you know. You had to go through what you've gone through. Yes ignorance can seem like bliss. And the more you know. The more you know you don't know. Being rooted inside, not shaken by the world around. That takes a certain strength most want. Unwilling to do what it takes to get it.

Healing and being healed is different for us all. What does it look like, feel like to you? How would you be different if you were healed? Is holding on to brokenness your identity that you're afraid to let go of? By holding on, are you allowing more trauma to compact the damage already caused? Healing is your individual, personal responsibility. It doesn't matter what that looks like. Or others think it should look like. What does it look like to you? Your life, your choice, your Healing journey. Take the steps today, in the right direction. Don't wait until it's too late. Then it will be too late!