Beautiful

Remember your beauty.
Remember your worth.
Remember that you mean something.
That the world is a brighter place with you in it.

If you feel that you are broken, know that I am broken too. If we were all honest with ourselves and with each other, we'd realize that we are all broken in some way. All the pretty masks we wear won't hide it. Perhaps it's time we stop hiding it.

I know the weight you carry is lonely and painful and devastating at times, and the darkness feels as if it might swallow you whole if you just stopped for a second to let yourself truly feel. But there is beauty in your fight. There's a fierceness in your will to survive. There is brilliant, blinding light on the other side of midnight, just waiting to break through, waiting to save you.

So if you are so buried in the pain that you can't see a safe way through it, if you feel like you're not good enough, not worthy enough, not strong enough -- let these words ring out like an anthem in your soul:

You are beautiful.
You are beautiful.
You are beautiful.

You are too beautiful to lose. 

To You, With Love

We all have wounds. We’ve all experienced giant, gaping holes in our hearts and lost pieces of ourselves along the way. But what matters is if we can allow ourselves to be vulnerable again to show and share all our sides – to trust that someone out there can accept and care for us in both our beauty and our shame, in our raging light and in the absence of our flame. 

Life is hard. Complicated. Unpredictable. Things don’t always go as we plan. We can get hurt, and we can hurt each other. As humans who are completely flawed in a world filled with brokenness and pain, this is inevitable sometimes. But we have to go on, to move forward, to let go, and let ourselves off the hook sometimes. Because there is still joy to be found. There is still hope. And magic. And light. Always remember that. And remember, accept, and believe that you are enough.