Never Perfect. Always Human.
Self-Portrait, 2022
True power is the beauty you have inside of you.
To be you. All the way through.
For a long time I apologized for who I was and my place here.
Belonging was a feeling quite foreign.
Self-acceptance was a daily struggle.
I could not own my beauty and so therefore I could not own my power.
The tendency to put others first before myself so I can feel safe (and everyone is ok) is still a strong enough pattern for me that I have to observe how I discount what I know to be true.
What this pattern has given me overtime is a chance to see through the mistruth of perfectionism and come home to the feeling of myself fully embodied. Knowing my uniqueness is allowed, permissible and actually the generative creative power of fulfillment and joy in my life.
Learning how to give myself permission to be exactly who I am has been the most radical act of self-reclamation.
Working with self-acceptance has given openings to new levels of abundance, intimacy and fulfillment that have changed the course of my life.
Most of all, it has opened avenues of giving and receiving deep love.
It has shown me that the sacred path to a life of fulfillment has its roots in acceptance.
For as long as I can remember I prayed for love. I prayed for the knowledge to live from a place of love.
Fully alive.
Never perfect.
Always human.
These radical acts of remembering who we are come not through books, programs or courses. They can come only through our direct human experience. When life opens you to your soul.
True power is in you.
In each of us.
It calls to you through all the wild edges of death, sorrow, disappointment and dissatisfaction we experience. True power will always shape you through the forgotten vaults of what is no longer alive for you and move you towards what is more true.
Through the death of past contracts we begin to write new ones. The time is always now to break from choices that no longer support you or the life you want. You have the agency. You have the power. You can create a life that will match you on a soul level.
May you be held with love. May you know yourself as love. May you share this with others unapologetically.
Andrea
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