This Is The Way

There came a moment when she could no longer wear the masks.
She couldn’t keep holding onto the ways of being she thought she needed in order to be seen.

She had been pushing away the voice softly calling her to step off the path and into the unknown
ignoring it until it grew so loud she had no choice but to listen.

Finally, she took the brave step and followed it.

And when she did, she found it led her deep into an initiation. To face the all of the darkness she had always turned away from.

To look at all the things she’d been clinging to
the things that were keeping her from forging her own path.

She knew:
to unfold into who she truly was, it was time to walk straight into the flames and let it all burn.

She shed the skins she no longer needed to survive.
She tore out the pages of the story that never belonged to her.
She peeled off the layers that had weighed her down, each one landing heavy on the floor.

She looked her fear, shame, and guilt in the face and said:
"I see you. I love you. But it’s time to let you go."

She scanned once more over all the pieces she had held onto for so long
and wept for how tightly she had clung to them.

Then, she stood up, struck the match, and watched as it all went up in a golden blaze.

When the ashes settled, she walked through the dust and felt herself transformed.

And as she moved forward
lighter, freer, whole—
she whispered with a resolve she had never known before:
This is the way.

“Are you ready to face the fire?”

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We don’t build a new life by escaping the old one.

We build it by rooting into the truth we’re ready to live.