Sometimes it’s easy to close your heart. Easy to suppress feelings, thoughts and emotions. Sometimes we have to do exactly that in order to survive. But it is so important to learn how to embrace your emotions. It’s important to remember that you deserve love. Real authentic love.
For a really long time I didn’t cry. Or rather, I couldn’t cry. Back in October when I attended the I Am That Girl Retreat I learned how bad that really was. How bad it was for me to constantly hide my feelings from myself. How bad it was to live life as if I was emotionless when in reality I felt so much. Ed Sheeran wrote, “So don’t wipe your eyes, tears remind you you’re alive” and those words really resonated with me. When we approached the end of the retreat I made a promise to myself. I promised to go home and live life in the most authentic way possible and that included learning how to cry, as silly as that may sound.
In the months following the retreat I was more honest, authentic and vulnerable than ever before. I made a conscious effort to be real at all times and in turn learned how to open my heart again. And you know what? I cry sometimes now. All of my relationships have completely transformed, I am so much more comfortable in my own skin and I am finally brave enough to let people truly see me. I am brave enough to love myself and to let more love into my life.
It is so important to let yourself feel things. To understand that it is okay to not be okay at times. That it is okay to feel whatever you are feeling, because those feelings mean something— they mean everything.
