I see you striving to be better.
I see you trying to improve yourself so you could have the relationships/body/job/life of your dreams.
I see you wanting to change your clothes, your hair, your face*.
I see you feeling itchy and uncomfortable just being you so you’re constantly looking for ways to make yourself into something different.
Because you think different is better.
And I’m here to tell you, you need to stop that.
You need to stop seeing yourself as a project for improvement.
You need to stop trying to change who you are so you could fit better into the world.
The world is massive. It’s got room for ALL that you are.
You just need to trust there’s space for all of you.
And hey, I know building that trust is the hard part.
Stretching out to be exactly who you are is the hard part. But you gotta do it anyway.
Because the alternative is like carving yourself with thousands of small cuts to make yourself smaller.
And if you’re feeling scared there’s no room for you as you are, I got you. Come on over to the Wild side. We got room for all of that and all the space you need to become even MORE yourself
*Where my 80s kids at? Let me know if you got the reference!.