When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal

by Brianna Wiest

Life can be deeply challenging and profoundly unfair, and without the ability to move through the feelings that may accompany our experiences in real time, we often become trapped in the old stories we once wove around them.

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.

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.