A Letter to My 14 Year Old Self

Dear 14 Year Old Self,

You will spend the next 20 years questioning, doubting, and grappling with your power and your path. What I would like for you to know is that the experiences you have had thus far, the experiences you may be currently labeling “bad” “faulty” or associate with your “brokenness” These experiences are where your gifts are birthed from. The cracks are where the light enters you. The trigger is the opportunity to heal the wound. There is gold in your story. You just don’t know it yet. This feeling you have of being “different” “misunderstood” and “unaccepted” you will one day grow to realize is actually a signifier of all that is right and good within you. Your honesty. Your empathy. Your courage. Your resiliency. Your ability to abandon anything that causes you to sacrifice your authenticity. This will be the guiding light on the path to discovering and uncovering your true north star.

This “differentness” and desire to feel accepted will sometimes make you shrink and play small. Until one day you unapologetically decide that you reserve the right to take up space. You will find your voice. And when you do you will finally come home to yourself. This will act as a remembering of what you came here to do. Be peaceful. Happy. And liberate yourself and others from suffering. This will require you to use all parts of your story. For you to allow…