To Myself

The hardest person to be honest with is often yourself. You know all your own excuses. You're an expert at looking away from the uncomfortable truths. And there's no one there to hold you accountable when you lie to the mirror.

Messages to yourself take many forms. Reminders of things you know but keep forgetting. Apologies for how you've treated yourself. Permission slips for things you've been denying yourself. The pep talk you need. The reality check you've been avoiding. The acknowledgment of how far you've come or how far you still have to go.

Sometimes writing to yourself is about the version of you that existed before—the child who needed protection, the teenager who made choices you're still living with. Sometimes it's about the future you, leaving words you hope you'll remember when you need them. Here, you can be your own witness, your own confidant, your own source of the words you've been waiting to hear.