“I’ve never really been able to define love or explain love or experience a love that didn’t hurt.”

"The mixture of light and darkness gives her silhouette an angelic appearance"

“If I stopped looking for everything I lack, I could allow myself to expand.”

“Somehow, though, there was a chapter slowly closing all the pain to allow me to acknowledge myself, the anger now the knowledge of my experience.”

“If I don’t take the time to fully see myself for who I am, how can I expect someone else to do so?”

“I followed and trusted the words of the Sunset—my guide and subconscious voice: the Holy Spirit. This allowed me to discern that things will not fail for me unless I let them; mindset is everything.”

“I’m constantly feeling like a fraud.”

But being me is what brings me peace. / What others think, / Will never give me this ease.

“I am not too hard to love or too much; if anything I should be a reflection of the love I choose to have. I am loved and deserve the love I give. “

I‘ve been trapped in this narrative of “not fitting in” and disliking myself so much so that true self-love has been foreign to me. In fact, it’s been so much easier sitting in this place of self-hate than working towards anything else.