Dear One,
I see you.
I see the way you’re carving yourself open to hold more love inside—paring away before to make room for now.
I see the way you spark and fire—the fierce and the lovely of you.
I see you. And I marvel.
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Dear One,
You don’t need to perform all your pains out loud to be worthy of compassion. And those who want you to are emotional voyeurs at best.
You deserve better than that.
Be gentle with your lovely self, okay?
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Dear One,
You are not so small as you might suppose. Not so shadowed. Not so shattered.
Your enormity is enduring, and the moments when you feel tiny and incapable have always been—and always will be—profoundly temporary.
Be gentle with your lovely self, okay?
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Dear One,
you are more
than this tangle-snarl
of ache and yearn
this heart-clash
brain-smash cataclysm
of all your deepest maybes
you are stardust forming
in helter-skelter winds
as sun-shadows scour
your brightest corners
you are all the magic
you have longed for
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Dear One,
You are not done happening yet.
And that is no little thing.
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Dear One,
The only way to truly lose to the horrors is to become them.
And you have not.
You will not.
Be gentle with your lovely self, okay?
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Dear One,
Grief is a waveform.
Healing is too.
It’s every kind of normal to feel seasick sometimes.
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Dear One,
You are not overthinking. There’s no such thing. You’re thinking the exact right amount for a brain that’s been through what yours has.
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Dear One,
Being mad at yourself for the trauma someone else inflicted on you is like getting stabbed with a sword and then being mad at your body for having a hole in it.
Be gentle with your lovely self, okay?
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Dear One,
It isn’t narcissistic to want to be seen for who you are.
And the people who tell you it is have questionable motives to say the least.
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Dear One,
Sometimes it’s okay to put it off till tomorrow—push the heavy thing towards the horizon between your days. Tomorrow-You will have slept hours you have not yet slept.
Let the weight shift to the version of yourself best able to bear it. Whoever that might be.
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Dear One,
I wish reality and the sum total of your deservings would align—that they could come together, interlock, bind.
That all your dire and despairing doubts could dissipate into the bright becoming of all you should always have had.
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Dear One,
in the deep quiet of could-have-been
lie the hope-shrouded seeds
of could-yet-be
they only need
a little light
a little care
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Dear One,
you speak
loveliness
into this often
unlovely world
and that is no
little thing
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Dear One,
You’re more than the ripples on the water—you’re the stone that made them. Long after the ripples fade you remain. Solid matter. A deep and meaningful change to the depths of every life you touch.
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Dear One,
Many choices on the journey of life can lead to regrets. Very few of these are naps.
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Dear One,
Calm is not a rational response to atrocity. And those who ask it of you are dangerous people indeed.
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Dear One,
Equating harm with an opportunity to be strong is one of the most toxic things human beings do to one another.
Harm is harm. Abuse is abuse.
And the platitudes they’ve tossed at you are not an antidote for your trauma. You deserve real support. You always have.
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Dear One,
It’s okay to be a sometimes person in a world that wants your always.
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Dear One,
I see you.
I see the way you’re carving yourself open to hold more love inside—paring away before to make room for now.
I see the way you spark and fire—the fierce and the lovely of you.
I see you. And I marvel.
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Dear One,
You’re not failing in your healing journey if new insights don’t immediately translate into things being better now.
Unlearning harmful untruths is a process—not an event.
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Dear One,
Are you being passive-aggressive, or are you living under the shadow of traumas that have taught you it’s not safe to be direct with people?
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Dear One,
You will never be enough for the people who never wanted the real you in the first place. You will always be enough for the people who do.
You deserve to be with the people who do.
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Dear One,
It isn’t careless to lose things. It isn’t weak to forget. We were built with holes in all our pockets—with hearts that ache to gather and minds designed to scatter.
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Dear One,
you are held
tucked tight
against the ribcage
of the universe
—a tiny pocket
yearning to burst
have you felt the
almost-there
almost-there of you?
held back
till all that you are
and will be
stretches
reaches
becomes?
deep breath now
we’ll catch you
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Dear One,
“I don’t want to” is a valid response to requests for your time/emotional energy.
Pass it on.
But only if you want to.
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Dear One,
Irritability is a natural byproduct of living in a world that wants you to make yourself smaller for its comfort.
You are not the problem here.
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Dear One,
Your broken promises don’t define you. You are so much more than the moments when you weren’t as able as you hoped you’d be.
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I say: “I did something wrong. I’m terrible.”
You say: “I’ve also done that wrong thing and feel similarly terrible.”
I say: “But you’re not terrible. You’re just a lovely human person having a terrible time.”
You say: “Oh.”
I say: “Ohhhhh.”
And we smile at one another.
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