You can do more than hard things.

Once you realise you can do hard things.

Once you fought the fight to make love real.

Once you had the courage to live and love your story.

Once you took on the monsters, regardless of the outcome.

When Everything you ever deserved and

Everything you ever lived for

Started to feel real.

Once you overcame the hard things,

Once you followed the painful inner path,

Once you befriended your shadow, that once haunted you.

Once you dug in so deep your feet sunk in clay,

Once you clung on when it felt stone and grey

Believed, beyond dreaming possibilities.

Once you learned to breathe

Once you did this for you

Once you saw what happened to you

Once you loved your story of you

Once you loved you, in your story

Once you exposed the truth

Once you stood

Once you became more than

Expectations, roles, conditions.

Once you became

Everything you ever lived for

Everything your heart made true

Once you can do hard things,

Then all of this can become true.

Once you start to do hard things

Everything feels possible.

Once you do hard things

The world starts to see

Powerful, Real, Beautiful

You.

Once you do hard things

You can do (almost) anything.

(Card sent to me from a beautiful friend as I began this process)