@Aalia 23 October 2022 more from that month

On the days when it feels like you will never get through this season, this period, this transition — please remember all of the mountains you have scaled before. Please remember all of the nights you spent convinced that you’d never move beyond where you were in that very moment. One day, something small brought you a little ease, and then a little more. You waited. You realized that everything was going to be okay, even if it doesn’t always feel okay. You let the waves of all those big feelings crash over you, and then you let them recede. You found courage. You did things you once did not believe you could do, even if those things were just finding the will to wake up and face another day. You found softness. You found yourself. You found forms of love you never expected, you began to appreciate what you couldn’t see before. You began to feel like you were enough, because you decided what would be enough for you. You developed resilience. You explored the perimeters of what your heart could hold, and how much it could process. You discovered that your strength is limitless, a truth we often don’t know until we are tested, until we are asked to dig it out from beneath our doubts and fears and false beliefs. Over time, what once seemed impossible became ordinary. The life you have today is a mere dream of the past. The things you do right now were once the things you only could have ever prayed to have. Please, do not forget that, when you most fear the future. Each time you have stepped forward, the road rose to meet you — and it will again. When You’re Ready, This Is How You Heal.