“Do what you have to do. Make doing what you have to do a priority for your life, because if you don't, you leave yourself behind.
You do not have to prostrate yourself at the feet of shame for one more minute or keep begging for forgiveness for being yourself.
We need you.
We need you to stop waiting to be ready. To stop waiting to act until you become the self you imagine you would be if only you were different than you are.
We need your radical truth-telling, your willingness to speak from your heart, but most of all, we need the unrepeatable essence of you.
Come back.”