We talk a lot about relationships in life marriage, friendships, business partnerships, family. But the relationship we most often undermine is the one we have with ourselves. Recently, something unlocked in me in real time. It forced me to look deeper at a truth I’ve known for years but maybe hadn’t fully allowed myself to feel. If the relationship with self is fractured, every other relationship in your life will eventually reflect that fracture.
As I’ve been writing and reflecting, a memory surfaced of being a ten-year-old girl who would ride her bike for hours just to escape the heaviness of home. I remember the freedom of those rides, but I also remember coming back and realizing no one had noticed I had been gone. That quiet feeling of invisibility followed me for much of my life. And in a moment of deep awareness recently, I realized something even bigger: part of the work of healing is recognizing when a version of yourself has quietly left. Sometimes a part of you changes so deeply that it is no longer the same woman, the same mother, the same partner, the same friend and no one gave their permission for her to leave. Your family didn’t know it was happening. You didn’t know it was happening. Yet suddenly you realize that version of you is gone, and there is a real grief that comes with that awareness.
But that realization is also powerful. Because when we allow ourselves to mourn those versions of who we once were, we create space for the person we are becoming. The relationship with self is the hardest relationship we will ever grow. It asks us to hold our own hand, to ask hard questions, and to release stories we’ve carried for decades. Yet when we do, something remarkable happens: the chains begin to fall away. And from that place comes freedom, freedom in our relationships, freedom in our voice, freedom in our purpose. The question is not whether the change will come. The question is whether you are willing to honor it when it does.
Until next time, love you, mean it.
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