Stop pretending you haven’t suffered that all is well.

You must learn to breathe + create THROUGH the pain. Let it become the filter through which you make your masterpiece.

No one is asking you for perfection.

Let your story be the tone through which you make your art.

Let your truth be your paint + your hard-earned insight your brush.

Let your pain speak THROUGH you, to create the art + magic + beauty + transformation that only you can catalyze.

Own your story, but do not become it.

Use it as your north star drinking gourd guidance to your freedom, not a prison of persecution.

Let your story speak THROUGH you as the champion of your demons, the conquerer of your captors.

Don’t erase your hard-earned stripes and replace them with performances of pretend perfection.

You, great warrior soul, imaginative innovator, tremendous thought leader, revolutionary mystic are here as an example of what’s possible when you own + reclaim every ounce of you, even  especially the broken, forgotten, unloved, ignored, minimized + misguided parts.

The parts of you you tried to pretend didn’t exist.

No more pretending.

There is room for all of you here.

Create the space, own all of your story, bring yourself home.

You are welcome here.