You Don’t Owe Anyone a Timeline

The process of living feels imperfect more often than not, so it’s easy to constantly judge ourselves or hold ourselves up for comparison against what appears to be perfect.

Remember, the journey is meant to be messy.

The mess, the fluctuation between emotions, complications and success, is how we learn, grow and expand. A linear life never made for a good story… it’s the times the straight line went scribbly that we laugh about later. At worst, there is tremendous growth in that chaos.

Since life always moves forward, every breath, every choice to keep showing up, to keep fighting and creating, is progress. Therefore, no matter how stuck or off track you feel, you are never left behind.

You are not behind, and your pace is not a problem.

This is particularly critical with grief and healing.

You are allowed to start again without explanation. You’re allowed to take up space, even if you’re still finding your way and aren’t quite sure where you’re going. The world teaches urgency. Your healing, the process of finding your truth… there’s no timeline on that.

Embracing the mess and relative uncertainty as you move forward is how you take your power back. Heal on your schedule, no theirs. Do not give your power to the idea that you should be better, heal faster, feel stronger than you do. You’re right where you need to be right now.

Move at your own pace. The world can’t dictate your speed, your process, or your version of right and wrong. Just be you. In the end, the world will come to understand that your expression is, and always has been, perfect.

This is wisdom. Keep going. You’re already becoming everything you were meant to be.

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