april, give me the capacity to surrender. allow me to drop fear, so my dreams can stop being held hostage. allow me to resist impatience, so the seeds i’ve planted can bloom into the flowers they deserve to be. open my arms to the love i’ve been so afraid to give myself.
never let lack of applause fool you into thinking that what you’re doing isn’t important. never let absence of celebration fool you into thinking that you’re not worthy of occupying spaces with love. external validation is easy to get, learn to honor you and your flowers first.
Toxic positivity is so damaging that my therapist specifically told me I need to stop doing it to myself.
We have to start allowing ourselves our full range of emotions.
Bypassing our need to process and express negative emotions isn’t positive.
We have to feel it to heal it.