When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal

by Brianna Wiest

Your first purpose is to heal. The sheer impact of you becoming the person you know you were meant to be will have a ripple effect on everyone and everything around you.

If time is not resolving the matter, then time may be waiting on you.

The reality is that you exist in so many different forms and images and beliefs and stories—and yet, the only one that is ever really going to matter is the one you tell yourself.

Destiny is a subtle coincidence, it makes you stop and say, well, isn’t it funny how that worked out.

The things that are most right for us are also the easiest to miss, because they are often subtle at first. Little things become big things over time, we just have to give them a chance. We just have to stay the course.

Please do not allow one more moment of your brief and beautiful life to pass where you remain paralyzed beneath the fear of not doing everything just perfectly—a fear that has led you to resist doing anything meaningful at all. The truth is that the very people who fear such things so deeply are often the same ones who have the most to offer, who have the most honest hearts and willing minds. We did not come here to arrive at death untouched and unmoved, precisely as we were at the beginning. The world needs more people like you to show up bravely.

NOTE TO SELF

Maybe the kindest possible thing you could do for yourself is to be your whole self, even if you fear you won’t be accepted. Maybe the kindest thing you could do is to be as open to your own soul as you can be, even if not everyone understands you.

Maybe you will become the kind of guide for others that you yourself never had.