Treading lightly and honoring where I'm at

On the power of meeting my own needs and the words that arrived because I chose to...

Good Morning Beautiful Human,

I am trying to be kind to myself this week and I hope you are too.

Though I wrote many full sentences in a draft of this newsletter, none felt ready to be shared just yet. So this week, I chose to listen to myself, something I am actively working on these days.

Listening to oneself sounds so easy and yet, I find it quite scary to listen to the many voices inside me. I am always afraid of what they might say about me or reveal about my hidden past and dark years prior.

But this week, no harsh truths or dark corners of heartbreak were revealed.

This week, my many voices only said one thing:

Tread lightly on your being.

Tread lightly.

And so here I am, doing exactly that. I am not forcing sentences into upright formation. I am not bowing to the incessant demands of grammar.

No, this week, instead, I am sharing a smattering of lines — my little version of poems— and a piece I wrote three years ago about learning to read and write while struggling with a learning …