maybe it’s art or writing or music… or a business or a career you dream of having, or a wild adventure you wanna take… just any wish you might have… if your heart aches for something or your soul wants to chase something…
your friends should literally be your biggest, loudest, truest fans of your dreams, always
– butterflies rising
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it’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month…
and it crashes into us with the news of millions of
views of some type of “online rape academy,”
and at first, we feel rage. but then… we feel
not so surprised at all.
and it’s because we’ve already known too many
versions of this… and it feels common… and what
actually feels foreign is to even consider a world where
SA is just terrible and rare. and so i try to imagine it…
like what if we could have that world?
but then i feel more rage… because i don’t want to
just imagine it, i want it to be real. i want to live
in a world where the horrible things that we’ve
accepted as common could only
ever be terrible and rare.
– butterflies rising
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you know why the moon mission stuff mattered so much? we’ve been sharing a collective broken heart for what feels like forever, but with the moon stuff, we got to share a dream… and it just feels really, really good to dream.
– butterflies rising
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some ways i’m made of magic…
i’m passionate & creative… i’m a dancer &
a writer, and i spill out all my feelings into
both of those things.
i’m adventurous & spontaneous…
maybe sometimes a little bit reckless…
but i can also be really brave, and i also
dream really big.
i love being a good friend… i’m supportive
& loyal & can hold space for any version of
them. and i’m silly & fun & i’m up for
anything. and i love my friends sooo much
and so deeply… like soulmates.
…and i think all of those things make
me kind of magical
– butterflies rising
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the way we’ve just been conditioned our whole lives as girls & women to just accept SA as an almost inevitable thing we’ll experience… it’s overwhelming to even see any consequences… like it feels foreign to even consider a world where SA is just terrible and rare… but imagine, what if we could have that world
– butterflies rising
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just because they haven’t been
accountable for what they did to you…
it doesn’t mean the energy of what
happened is yours to carry
– butterflies rising
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there will be a year when your
life falls apart in ways that make you feel like
you’ve never been so lost… but it’s important
that you keep going…
because there is a version of you
waiting on the other side of that journey
who knows that all of the falling apart and
burning down were clearing the way
for so much blooming.
– butterflies rising
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there will be a year when your
heart gets so broken that you feel like
you won’t survive it… but it’s important
that you keep going…
because there is a version of you
waiting on the other side of that journey
who is healed and free and has such
a beautiful new life to show you.
– butterflies rising
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maybe it’s not such a bad thing… having to go through someone’s walls. like… because once you get through, you know it’s because they really want you there. and that space isn’t for just anyone… no one else could be there but you.
– butterflies rising
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what if there are no wrong turns?
like really… what if?
what if all of your “wrong turns” are
really just the long way home?
– butterflies rising
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no revenge because…
since you, i’ve been discovering and
growing into a beautiful new version of me
that i would’ve never even reached for if you
hadn’t shaken the core of that last
version of me so deeply
– butterflies rising
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