2021.

did your mental health crumble?

did you feel burned out into ashes?

don't stop moving. 

take a deep breath

in

out

did you feel that?

that was air passing through your nose and swirling into your lungs.

that was oxygen settling in to keep you alive.

that was carbon dioxide leaving your body, leaving your lungs clean and healthy. 

maybe you still feel like everything is falling apart. 

I understand. and I want to help you.

sometimes the best medicine is driving to work and screaming a song at the top of your lungs.

it's making that playlist full of angsty songs that you can scream and cry to.

it's writing that poetry or prose or book or journal entry that makes you feel better even if it's not the best-written piece.

it's taking a walk and noticing five to ten things that hold beauty. 

it's drinking hot chocolate in the winter and lemonade in the summer or being a rebel and doing that in reverse. 

it's exercising even though you hate it because somehow, it makes you feel less bitter, less angry. 

it's letting go of the people that hurt you and are toxic.

it's learning how to be okay on your own.

it's letting yourself cry at night, even though you feel weak and tired because you're finally releasing it. 

it's climbing and reaching and falling and trying again.

we are human

we are broken

but we are resilient

we put the pieces back together again

and we do it all again and again and again because we know we can reach the top

so don't give up

listen to that song that makes you want to scream it at the top of your lungs

make that playlist full of songs to scream to, cry to, laugh to, dance to.

you don't have too many playlists.

there are never enough playlists. 

write that book

that poem

that paper

that journal

do the things you thought you could never do

and grow

grow little flower

because you're onto big things. 

<3