you love me.

I’m not the woman I was a few years ago or even a year ago but I still like to hold her hand and remind her she did her best with what she knew

healed enough to close the door, but human enough to still look at it sometimes

Closed but not locked

Extremes aren’t meant to be lived in, but they’re powerful places to begin. They show you what’s not working & force clarity by pushing you completely out of your comfort zone. But you don’t stay in the extreme. You move through it and somewhere along the way, you find your own balance & what actually works for you

Your power is found in facing the parts of you that believe you don’t have any. The simplest way to recognize them is this is to notice what triggers you. What you procrastinate on. What you avoid. What feels too big, too uncomfortable, too exposing. That’s where your power is hiding and these reflections will typically come in the form of another person. In the things they say, the patterns they mirror and the emotions they activate in you, what you tolerate. Not because they are the problem but because they are revealing where the work still is. What you feel strongly about in others is often pointing you back to something in yourself that’s ready to be met

deep conversations and wine