But are you willing to settle? Is this how you want to feel every day for the rest of your life? Just getting through? Not even knowing what makes you feel good anymore? Not even knowing who you are? And having zero boundaries towards how people treat you, speak to you, and expect from you?

And I will sit here. Not because I am a teacher’s pet and I do my homework like the goodie two shoes I am… but because I want this. I want to feel this. I want to embody this. I continue to do the hard things, the things that don’t feel true until they are, the things that feel icky and weird and my ego tries telling me it is silly.

I am the phoenix who has risen from the ashes. The lotus flower that grew from the mud. The Plain Jane turned into a powerhouse fking boss babe b!tch. The one who can be s3xy without feeling like it is a sl*t.