Dear Inner Child,

Written by Hali Tsotetsi

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Dear Inner Child, 

When life gets tough, that is when it’s time to lean inwards. With that inner direction, align yourself with what you believe to be authentic. There are a lot of fakers in this world. Your job is not to call them out but remain on your own path because calling them out is tiresome, gruesome and tedious.

Know that your boundaries are worth upholding. You are not too much, you are not too little and you are not less than so don’t believe other people’s judgments and limitations. 

You are exactly where you are meant to be. You might’ve said the wrong thing, done it the incorrect way or just messed up and, that is okay. You don’t have to be the best or be perfect. You just have to take it day-by-day. Live today!

When your doubt creeps back up about something that didn’t go your way or someone who hurt/betrayed you, know that believing in someone’s heart is an act of purity. It is on them for not fulfilling what they pretended or claimed to be. The only thing you can do is trust, the rest is up to other people and what The Divine has in store for you. 

Look at your mistakes or flaws as pathways to where you can fine-tune and learn more about yourself, not as memories that you keep rehashing in your head. The past is over, there is nothing you can do about it. You might’ve not acted your best or behaved perfectly but, how were you meant to know? That is what experience is, gaining knowledge through living.

Live your life, not for pictures or to say you did it but to feel it. Smell the air, cry the pain, feel the hurt, rejoice in the laughter, heal your heart, believe in people, trust yourself. You are meant to be alive for a reason. 

That reason is to live.