In February…
i want to exhale every version of
myself i’ve taken on for someone else
and finally know what it’s like to
breathe and to feel free
in my own skin

– butterflies rising

2025 goal…
to exhale every version of
myself i’ve taken on for someone else
and finally know what it’s like to
breathe and to feel free
in my own skin

– butterflies rising

i hope the universe shows you how
you can be loved into growth instead of
having to be broken into it…

because you’ve already learned so much
of how strong you’ve grown through darkness…
but i think you’re made of flowers;
how you bloom when there’s
light on your skin

– butterflies rising

i hope 2025
is the year the universe
shows you how you can be
loved into growth instead of
having to be broken into it…

because you’ve already
learned so much of how strong
you’ve grown through darkness…
but i think you’re made of flowers;
how you bloom when there’s
light on your skin

– butterflies rising

i’ve been dying to feel even just a little bit of air inside my lungs… suffocating myself for so long, always asking for permission for the shape of my presence and the width of my wings… it’s time to let myself breathe and unfold

– butterflies rising

love shouldn’t feel like a choice between being loved or loving yourself… it should be where both things collide

– butterflies rising

i think about how we give so much credit to the heavy and hard things for how beautiful we are…

how we tell others of the darkness we’ve pushed through, and they say things like… “it’s why you’re so strong.” or they speak of all that depth and texture it’s given our character. and i think… it’s true.

but i also think… of the soft places i’ve had to fall where i can just be like a flower and made of my wild vulnerability, or of the moments in this life that bring out my glow…

and as much as i can see how we grow from the push of darkness… i think we also need that feeling of light to help pull us into our bloom.

– butterflies rising

i think about how
we give so much credit
to the heavy and hard things
for how beautiful we are…

how we tell others of the
darkness we’ve pushed through
and they say things like…
“it’s why you’re so strong.”
or they speak of all that depth and
texture it’s given our character.
and i think… it’s true.

but i also think…
of the soft places i’ve had to fall
where i can just be like a flower
and made of my wild vulnerability,
or of the moments in this life that
bring out my glow… and of the ones
who are there to witness it, and how
they tell me that it’s beautiful…
and of all the sparks of inspiration
like little embers on my pathways
that help spark my own fires that i
have waiting inside of me.

as much as i can see how we
grow from the push of darkness…
i think we also need that feeling
of light to help pull us into our bloom.
and maybe it matters more than we
know how much a little spark we
leave somewhere might be a
needed light… the way it could
remind someone they are made
of flowers… and help pull
them into their bloom.

– butterflies rising

you’ve heard so much of how strong you’ve grown through darkness… but i think you’re made of flowers; how you bloom when there’s light on your skin

– butterflies rising