Trusting Myself

There is something

So cathartic

So

Gratifying

In finding your own voice

In learning

How you want to share it

In creating your own space

There is something

So rewarding

In finding safe ways

To be yourself

In all the ways that people try to highlight mental illness

We still miss the fact

That it simply isn't safe to take care of yourself

No one is truly safe to be themselves

Without the threat of judgment and unfounded insults being hurled at them

Our society is not a safe place

And yet

We find our safe spaces

We find the ways that we can express ourselves

Despite the world we live in

Learning to love myself

Has truly changed how I see everything

I understand now

I won't be accepted

I won't be loved right

But when I love myself

I find this profound ability

To keep myself safe

To know my own worth

To begin to learn how to be myself

Because I no longer need to prove myself

I simply exist

And let that be enough

To take me where I want to go

Even if I don't know where that is

I trust that it's in me

And I'll find it

I trust myself now

And it is profound

How life changing that is