When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal

by Brianna Wiest

I hope that you learn how to look at yourself and know that you aren’t quite the person you want to be, without condemning the person you currently are. I hope you learn how to see your evolution not as a linear ascent into perfection, but an unpacking of why you might want to perfect yourself in the first place. What feels so broken? And who taught you it was that way?

I hope you learn that you are also your own project, your own muse, your own love affair.

I hope you learn you belong to yourself.

I hope you learn that you are not meant to grow once and never again, but to fall in love with the process of building, and p...