Beautiful girl, when you are finished falling, after you hit rock bottom and watch yourself come apart into a million pieces, no one is staying to help you collect yourself, no one is sticking around to pick through your pieces to decide which parts of you are worth keeping. Thatβs for you to decide. So stay down for as long as you need to. This is the most important part. Take your time. Pay attention. You already broke. So the easy part is over. Go slow....I know, you thought the breaking was the most painful chapter. It wasnβt. Turn the page. The next part is much longer. Itβs the healing. The rise. The comeback. Itβs the birth of the new you. And itβs not easy. But you are strong and brave and worth it. Youβll have to leave a lot of yourself behind, youβll have to let go of all the parts of you that youβve outgrown. Weβre not making ourselves small anymore. Weβre not bending to fit where we donβt belong anymore. Do you hear me? Weβre going all in. Count your wounds, every scar ripped open, every drop of blood you bled like a promise, every tear you cried like a bet in the name of crossing your whole heart, your whole soul, was all for this moment. Right here. Right now. You had to hurt like that to get here to this version of you who knows exactly who she is, who sheβs not, who she will never be again. Drop the apologies, babe. Weβre not sorry anymore for who we are, weβre not sorry for what we had to do to get here, and weβre not sorry for the time it took to learn our worth. Step out of the box of all you were supposed to be, according to everyone who wasnβt you, and walk into the you, whoβs comfortable in her own skin. Itβs time. You earned it. We no longer wear the expectations of anyone else and we no longer let anyone else decide what weβre worth. Because we know now. We finally know. And now itβs time to celebrate it. Get up, babe. It does not hurt anymore. Now go show YOU what youβre made of. -Stephanie Bennett-Henry
