How much of your life
Were you taught to say yes
And do what others wanted
And expected you to do when
You actually wanted to say no?
How much of your life
Were you given no choice
And no voice to speak your truth,
Implanted with others’ lie that
It is the way to please them,
To get their love and approval?
How much of your life
Did you tolerate others’
And their expectations of you
For their own happiness
At your own expense
Trying to be everybody else
When you were not
As your normal reality?
Could you ever make them happy?
No
Because they chose to be unhappy
From the very first place
No matter how many pieces and parts
Of you that you cut off
No matter how much you could do
Under the sun,
There is nothing you could do about it
It had nothing to do with you
So everything you have done
To keep your voice silent
To tolerate others’ behavior
To not speak your truth
To live others’ expectations and reality,
To carry their baggage and luggage
Of pain, anger, sadness, grief,
Sorrow, fear, doubts, blame,
Shame, guilt, you name it
As your own
Buying all these lies from them that
Tolerating is loving and caring
Silencing is loving and caring
Taking on is loving and caring
Not speaking how you feel
And what you would like
Is loving and caring
Just do it as told is loving and caring
As real, true and yours
When they aren’t
Everything that is,
Would you like to uncreate,
Delete and destroy and return
It all to senders please?
What if you choose to speak your truth
Regardless of fear?
What if you are willing to lose
Anything and anybody if required
Speaking your truth
And standing in it?
What if by speaking your truth,
You honor you and everybody involved
Regardless of what outcomes would be?
What if by speaking your truth,
You allow you and others to be
With your authenticty and vulnerability?
What if by speaking your truth,
You reclaim your voice?
What if by speaking your truth,
You gain more of YOU?
What if by speaking your truth,
You trust YOU?
Is it easy?
No, many times it ain’t
Because we were never taught,
Shown or encouraged to do so
Most of or all of our lives
It is a process
It is a journey
It does take practice
It does take work
It does take your sweats and tears
It ain’t fairy and rosy all the way
It will be bumpy down the road
Yet as long as you have the willingness,
It shall be done
It’s ok to make mistakes
It’s ok to slip and not speak your truth
At one point or another
During the process,
Let’s shake it off
Let’s get up again
With kindness to you
Let’s get your awareness
And clarity from it
Let’s choose again
Again, again and again
Until you master it
To trust and reclaim YOU
What if you could teach you
How to love and trust you
All over again
By speaking your truth?
What if you could teach you
To be kind, loving and caring
To you all over again
By speaking your truth?
Would you like to receive that
You know what it feels like
To show you what it feels like
To love and trust YOU
By speaking your truth?
What if you could lower all barriers
Put your hands on your heart
And speak to you
With all of your heart and soul
With every fibre of your being
Each and everyday
Allow whatever feelings to come up,
All the anger, fears, worries,
Hurts, and more
If you want to cry, cry
If you want to scream, scream
Whatever you feel,
Allow it,
Embrace it
Feel it with all of your heart
Shower you and those feelings
With your lovingness and kindness
To them and you
With all the loving, kind, empowering words
With your gratitude and appreciation
For YOU
You are on your miraculous journey
Of opening your gigantic heart for YOU
Of loving and trusting YOU
Of speaking your truth
Of reclaiming your powerful voice
Of reclaiming your magnificent life
Of reclaiming your eternal joy
Of reclaiming your infinite freedom
Of reclaiming all of YOU
You got this. One step at a time.
- Phuong
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