Life will invite you to love and to lose, to build and to break, to rise and to fall. This is not a flaw of the human journey, it is its very fabric. 

Every experience, even the hard ones, carries the seed of growth, wisdom, and tenderness.

We live. We learn. We heal. We grow.

As a therapist, I’ve seen how easy it is to shut down after hurt, to live on autopilot, to protect yourself so much that you miss the aliveness of being here. But closing your heart to pain also closes it to joy, intimacy, and wonder. 

The real practice is to stay present, to feel, to breathe, to let life touch you, and to know that you are strong enough to meet it.

Let life meet you. Transform you.

Wear your scars with compassion. Let your past teach you without defining you. Allow each moment to soften your defenses and open your capacity for love. When you fall, get back up, but do it slowly, gently, with presence.

The only guarantee in life is change. Everything shifts, the seasons of your heart, the people you love, the stories you tell yourself. 

Knowing that, don’t hold back your becoming. Take the risk of being seen. Let life move through you. Give your love and your gifts fully, not as a performance, but as a practice of being alive.

Play to live. Don’t play to avoid pain. 

Live to love. Don’t live to avoid being hurt. 

When you live mindfully and with an open heart, even the losses become teachers, and you leave far fewer regrets behind.

May you live wide awake. 

May you open your heart to the fullness of your life. 

May you trust that every experience is shaping you into who you came here to be.

With love,🤍

Aniela

www.MindfulTherapist.us

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