"Value of Voice"

 

Loss...

Is usually the other side of change...

To not stay and fight for all the old...

But to move forward, focusing on beginning to build new...

Some decisions will not bring peace immediately

Some will unfortunately bring grief...

Until the parts of you that have been taken away slowly return

Life can and will knock the hell out of your being...

Taking people and parts of you we never wanted to lose

Only leaving deep life altering scars you never saw coming

Survival for somethings cannot be taught...

It unfortunately has to be learned...

By pain...

Heartache...

By loss...

Or the greatest effort put forth by your being...

Sacrifice and compromise, there is a difference...

Denial and ownership...

Where do you stand and what do you stand for?

Allowance to be given or control taken?

Both sides of the same coin...

We define the meaning...

Feeling comes with a price

Too much tolerance can make others forget your value

You cannot always rely on others to respect your feelings

You only have control over yourself...

Life is change always...

You are shifting with the seasons as you realize that you are not the same person you use to be

The things that you use to tolerate, now become intolerable

Where you once remained silent, you are now speaking your truth

The war within another is not your battle to fight...

Because some situations do not deserve so much time, energy, and focus of your life

The choice between words or silence is now understood...

As you realize the value and power of your voice.

© 2026

"Time To Be You"

 

Life is one giant lesson in humanity...

You are responsible for how long you let what hurt you haunt you...

One thing is for certain...

You are not the villain in anyone's story just because you refused to consent to their constant disrespect towards you

Love and understanding maybe unconditional

But tolerance is not...

Your energy is a gift

Not everyone deserves to have constant access to it

And they definitely do not have the right to feed off it...

People don't abandon people they care for

They abandon people who they were using...

Scared is a feeling...

But brave is what you are doing...

To actively choose change...

Refuse to hold onto the guilt misplaced upon you

This is the final choice to move from where certain movements have held you still

Because it is one of the most destructive things human beings have created

The idea that you should feel bad or lost if you are not productive every moment of the day

Sometimes you just need time to be you

Embracing your being...

And the courage sought at first light of morning

To rise even though weary...

To hold your head above the waves of life crashing into your being

Because you have decided to fight for yourself

To exist upon your own terms

Reminding yourself that you are a human being

Not a human doing...

To take those moments calling your name

To rest...

To breathe...

And to hold onto the light breaking through the darkness.

© 2026

"Need To Be"

 

It's that realization...

Most believe that silence is born...

When more times than enough, it is given...

Along with the abandonment in-between the difficult moments

Words get passed around

Reactions get swallowed

Time holds hostage the emotional storm within

Like all things under pressure, the breaking point looms...

And when it does, you are told that you are the only reason it broke

Your reaction is deemed as being incredibly rude

One of attention grabbing and dramatic

So why is it that no one notices sadness?

Not until it turns into anger inflicted...

Then pointed fingers blame the hurt upon the victim...

The story always reads same...

That some how the weakest being is wrong

That the fault is all their own...

Like they were given no other choice...

Even when we all know that disrespect does not simply happen

It is a choice...

This is why footsteps begin to turn away

To leave is not that you stopped caring

You walk away because you now understand that caring too much has kept you abandoning yourself

That the actions given were no longer enough to cover the cost taken

Now releasing all trapped emotions and feelings

You understand that you are not more ahead or behind any other

Your choices are where you need to be

There is no timetable that must be followed

Sometimes there is no order to be taken

It is all a decision made

To be you...

And to be compared to no other.

© 2026

"Just in Case"

 

Breathe...

Hold this moment just for you...

Just in case no one has told you lately...

You have done an amazing job of holding onto yourself through all these difficulties...

That despite everything you have endured...

You are here...

Strong, kind, beautiful, and resilient

Some how still holding onto that spark of optimism

Even on those painfully dark days where healing from anything seems impossible

Some how you have embraced this sheer determination to create more

A better life than what yesterday has handed you

Belief in ones self in paramount

Even when no one else does...

Even with tears in your eyes...

You still face the world every day...

With a new hope given in refusal

That for far too long you have lived only for others

This day now begins you...

You heal by releasing, not suppressing

To now understand that the difference has to be the choice taken

Existence is all the moments of living

A shining light beaming...

Listen to the words of kindness spoken to yourself

Let them sink in...

Let them fade into you and believe them

They are never meant to just lay upon your skin with all the other words collected throughout the day

They are meant to live inside you...

Making you look at life differently...

Because of the changes you've made...

Feel the peace flow through you now...

That transition from just barely surviving to recovery...

Is because above all else, you held space for your being

And found your way back to you again.

© 2026

"Because Sometimes"

 

Sometimes...

People are not ready to see the bright side of things...

Sometimes, they need to sit with the shadows first...

To acknowledge the darkness within and around them...

Because denying its existence can be more harmful then good

So bear with them...

Sit with them holding the moments...

Help make the heaviness bearable...

Because it does take time to find sunlight again

To actually see it and believe it to be true...

To accept that the lost parts of yourself do deserve grieving

That it was never your own shadows that you were afraid of

It was those of expectations looming over your shoulders

To the point that the only thing you expected from living was pain...

That love, hurt, and blood all flow from the same vein...

Causing the heart to make a home within a place you ought to run away from

It is when this reminder is desperately needed to be given...

That it takes time to realize that you can't let go of what you refuse to feel

Because when all you know is chaos, the slightest change around you never goes unnoticed

The first step to getting anywhere is deciding your no longer willing to stay where you are

Every time you try to control another's path, you step off your own

We suffer...

We hopefully learn...

And we begin to change...

Because sometimes we do reply on hope

Like a bridge spanning a great distance...

Sometimes we are in need, while in other times we are the one providing the link to another

No one ever escapes the troubled waters of life...

Each day presents its challenges...

The choice always remains ours...

To be scared or to be brave...

Either way there are times in our lives when we could use a little help

And other times when we are given the chance to be that help to someone else

It really doesn't matter where you are right now...

What matters most is that you remember yourself

How receiving a helping hand is just as important as offering one

That its not only a chance given to live...

But to survive.

© 2026

"Restoration of You"

 

Like all beings...

We are the transitions of change...

Continuously learning who we are...

While unlearning anything that someone else told us to be...

Choose you always...

Taking time for yourself is not selfish

You can't be there for others when you've forgotten how to be present for yourself

Boundaries are not created to offend others

They are created to honour your being...

Because at the end of the day, you are the caretaker of your life

People only see the decisions you made, not the only choice you had

Forgive yourself for not knowing better at the time...

Forgive yourself for giving away your power...

Forgive yourself for past behaviours...

Forgive yourself for everything else, but never for surviving...

Forgive yourself for all the patterns you put into place as you made your way through difficult decisions...

And above all else, forgive yourself for being who you needed to be at the time...

Refuse to continue to argue with those over understanding

Especially when they fail to understand themselves

The hardest things to let go of are the things we never truly had

To release those around us who have not grown with us

Because you will never be able to make someone see what they don't want to hear

Your mind is either a weapon or a weakness...

Train it to fight for you, not against you...

Strength sometimes looks like moving forward

A step at a time...

Breathing through all that is attempting to bury you deep

As you heal the places in your memory that still replay hurt

Leave everything in today as it passes...

Right where the sunset is found...

Tomorrow arrives with more time and understanding

And a chance to begin the restoration of you.

© 2026

"In the Middle"

 

Sometimes....

You cannot think your way out of things...

Somethings you must feel your way through...

Because not all cages are made of metal, some are made of thoughts...

The mind seems to draw maps where the heart wishes to follow

And sometimes we get lost along the way...

Somewhere between what we want and what we have been told

Right in the middle of logic and longing...

Language is a movable object

We can and do learn, which causes so much change within and around us...

And we should grow beyond the past moments...

You may not have asked for this heavy weight placed upon you, but you do get to choose how you react to it

What we do in this life echoes for all the days we live within it

Sometimes the greatest betrayal isn't what someone has done to you

Its how long you have abandoned yourself to keep them

Maybe you are not healing because you are trying to be who you were before the trauma was caused

Sadly, the reality is that being no longer exists

There now is a new you emerging from the darkness

Trying to be born at this very moment...

To breath life into the being you are now becoming

Never trade your authenticity for approval

People will attack your character, wishing to gain entry to your being

Take notice, there is something there...

Thieves just don't break into empty places for no reason...

People always seem to notice the changes with you

But they never realize or remember the actions that have caused them

Because those with the dirtiest fingers, are usually the ones who are pointing the fingers of blame

Remind yourself that you deserve to feel safe within your own life

Fight for it, with every ounce gained and given

You are this force...

Always you...

Always enough...

Every moment...

Every sunrise...

Every day...

Shine your light.

© 2026