Do you ever long for things to change?

Question when the relentless grind

and overwhelm will finally end?

Wondering when your life,

The vision for yourself you hold in your heart,

When it will begin?

When you will get to live your life?

 

It’s not what you think.

It won’t just magically happen one day.

It won’t begin when someone else says it can.

Not when the circumstances around you change.

Not even when you’ve had an epiphany or a breakthrough.

 

The change you long for,

The life you crave,

Will only ever happen

When you make it so.

 

Your longing will only ever be fulfilled

When the fire in your belly,

When storm in your heart,

And the power in your limbs

All stand together,

And declare with unwavering clarity

That desperation and starvation

Are not what you are here for.

 

This stand requires you to

call together and ground yourself.

To no longer partake in the war

between the parts of you

that believe you can

and the parts of you that don’t.

 

This stand demands you

be on your own team.

It compels you to finally say

No more, I can!, and I will.

And to mean it with all your heart.

 

There is a future you, waiting.

She is calling you home to yourself.

To your truth, and your power.

She has already walked the journey

That you must walk

To become her.

 

She knows you will be faced with the task

Of declaring a cease fire with yourself.

That you will be required to

Shun the compulsive pushing against,

The making yourself wrong,

The eternal perfection seeking

That is holding the current you hostage.

 

She knows you must become someone new.

 

Someone who…

Gives herself radical permission

To be all 32 flavors of herself,

While coloring outside the lines, simply because

It sparks joy

In herself and in others.

 

Someone who…

Consciously commands her space,

Uses her voice, radiates self-respect,

And loves herself

With the same fire and warmth

And magnanimity she extends to others.

 

Someone who…

Values her time, energy, and aliveness

More than what others might think,

Or say or proclaim is best and right for her.

 

Someone who…

Dares to shine brightly,

Feel deeply,

Live into the extraordinary,

And meet her life on life’s terms

With open eyes, a boundless heart,

And a willingness to be present with it all.

 

She knows you must learn to become a woman who…

 

Speaks truth to a world that has not,

Does not,

Honor and value her being.

 

A woman who prioritizes

Space and time for

Her ignition, excitement, and desire.

 

A woman who dares to please her

One, wild, amazing, layered, deep

And daring self, so

She can be more to others.

 

A woman who recognizes that

Change must come from within

Because the world is not

A safe haven for women,

And waiting for the tide to change

So she can finally be herself

Is not a viable or acceptable option.

 

Your amazing future self asks, When will you let yourself be YOU?

 

In all your audacious, hungry, lustful,

Brilliant, sexy, creative,

Ambitious, delightful, extravagant,

Tender, resilient too-muchness?

 

When will you toss away those labels?

Laugh at those judgments?

Shrug off those criticisms?

Stand tall in the face of those small opinions?

Know that no one can really know,

Understand, or be who and what you really are

Beyond the outdated expectations of a toxic society?

 

You are powerful. Beautiful. Unabashed.

Discerning. Vivacious. Self-determining.

Awake. Aware. And ALIVE.

 

In a world that is enamored with competition, suffering, war,

Destruction, and a limited definition of

Triumph and success,

You get to choose you.

 

You get to shine brightly and share your brilliance.

 

You get to choose who and what is and is not a part of your world.

 

You get to create the life you’ve always wanted to live.

 

You get to become the woman you’ve always wanted to be.

 

You get to rise above and move beyond

The war within,

And no longer house the conflicts

That keep you trapped, stuck,

And corralled in a space

You’ve long since outgrown.

 

You get to be Bold. Beautiful. Rested.

Courageous. Playful. Bright.

Nourished. Ever-changing.

And full of Joy.

 

You get to awaken into a vibrant new YOU

That lives truthfully, loves freely,

And honors herself and her life fully.

 

When will you let your life be your own?

 

When you decide it’s time.

When you say it is so.

When you choose to get busy living.

That is when.

 

And not until.