You owe it to your damn self to be unapologetically happy.

You owe it to yourself to say no to toxic things, people, and environments.

You owe it to yourself to say no when yes doesn’t feel right.

You owe it to yourself to take risks and push fear to the side.

You owe it to yourself to have self-care days and not explain the why to anyone.

Most importantly: you owe it to yourself to love and be loved bigger and better every single day.

I know my posts are typically pretty personal and emotional but the last week or so I have felt such an urge to talk to YOU. Whoever you are reading this right now, I wrote this for you. This world we live in sucks, doesn’t it? Fear, doubt, shame, guilt, depression, anxiety, judgement, sadness, anger, and so on…they creep into our lives daily and try to take over. They make you question the way you’re living your life, or maybe the people IN your life. They take what you already know is the truth and try to convince you of something else. They try to take really good things away from you, and maybe these are things you’ve been working for for a very long time.

Maybe happiness doesn’t visit you often but when it does: DO NOT APOLOGIZE FOR IT. Invite it to stay longer. // Maybe you’re surrounded by toxic people or places or environments: YOU are allowed to say “no more” and remove those things from your life without explanation. You are not obligated to say yes to things that don’t feel right. Trust your gut, my friends. Is there something you want more than anything but there are risks involved? Take it. Go for it. Fear doesn’t win this one, my friends. And on the days shit just seems really really hard…take that self care day; you are ENTITLED to that, my friends.

Love well. That’s really all any of us have left at the end of the day. Love the people around you well & do not settle for being loved anything less than exactly that: well. Ask hard questions. Give honest answers. Work through your baggage. Cry when you need to. Scream when it feels right. Laugh with your whole body. Live this life as loud as you can & do not ever give up on yourself.

I may not even know you but I promise you that this world would look SO different without you.

Live: you owe it to yourself.

 

 

xo,

Chance