Have you ever written yourself a love letter?

Writing helps you heal and to make sense of things.

When you find it difficult to use your voice or to share how you feel, writing allows you a safe space to explore your thoughts and emotions—a place to release your fears and find your hopes and dreams again.

Writing can help change your outlook by allowing you the space to let go of the negative thoughts and emotions. It allows you time to process them and to accept that life may not have gone according to plan, but with a new perspective, you can craft alternate endings, perspectives, and opportunities.

Take some time this week to write yourself a love letter.

First, find a quiet spot where you will not be distracted. You can use a notebook, journal, or electronic device. If you like, you can play music in the background to help you too. Just allow your thoughts and feelings about yourself to flow out and do not hold back. This is for your eyes only.

Here is my letter:

Dearest Wendi,

I want you to know how brave you are. I know things have not been that easy for you in the past 5 years. Your whole life was turned upside down and you have had to try to put it right side up again for a long time now.

I know this has been a long road for you with so many different challenges being thrown your way without any warning, but I need you to know how much I admire your strength and courage. You are so much stronger than you thought you were.

You have become my own personal hero.
I know that you have felt lost many times and have tried to make sense of everything that has happened. I know you do not have all the answers and maybe never will, but you have learned to continue to move forward by learning as much as you can and never giving up.

I realize that the path you are on now isn’t what you had planned for your future, but somehow you have been able to relearn and prioritize what is most important in your life and focus on that. I am so proud of you for always looking at the positive side of things when it is so easy to focus on what you can no longer do or be.

You have had to change so much about your life that it no longer reflects who you once were, but that is ok. You have transformed into someone new and beautiful. You have learned it is ok to do things at your own pace and to slow things down. You have learned it is ok to set healthy boundaries for yourself and stick to them.

Your ability to continue to show up every day and learn and grow amazes me. Through your eyes, I have been able to view beauty where I could have seen nothing by ugliness and darkness.

I admire your courage to cry when you need to, to rest when you are tired, and to say no when you do not have the strength.

Thank you for never forgetting how significant you are, that you are so incredibly worthy, smart, strong, and enough.
Thank you for being relentless in finding new tools and resources to help yourself and to help others.

You are my hero and I love you.

Love, Me

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