Dear Luxia,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leave. Leave the one who doesn’t treat you the way you deserve. Leave the one who shames you. Leave your expectations behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Be brave and courageous and start listening to yourself. Your heart. Your mind. Your intuition. Your desires. Your loves. Your needs. Your wants. Your hopes. Your ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Listen to yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
YOUR life – not anyone else\u2019s life – is the one you are living. So live it your way. Look at it your way. Trust that you actually know what\u2019s what.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I see you discouraged. Frustrated. Hating who you are some days. Wondering what became of you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You look around and don\u2019t recognize yourself in the life you\u2019ve built. Because you\u2019ve built no place for you<\/em> in your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You\u2019ve built a life for your husband. Your kids. The people you care for. You\u2019ve built a life the way you felt like you were supposed to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the process, though, you lost yourself. You lost space for you. You lost the idea of you. And now you\u2019re holding on to just a memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So leave it all behind and build it again. Take what works. Discard the rest. Don\u2019t be afraid to disappoint your parents. Your family. Your spouse. Your kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You\u2019ve disappointed yourself for so long\u2026 Maybe start listening to yourself? Even for just a second? Live it YOUR way. Not anyone else\u2019s way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don\u2019t shush your own voice. There are plenty of others who will do that for you. For now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trust yourself. Breathe for yourself. Walk for yourself. Meditate for yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s not selfish. It\u2019s life-giving. It\u2019s necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Be brave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And let me warn you\u2026 This will not be pretty. It will be messy and frustrating and you will wonder if it\u2019s worth the effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I promise you it is. Mess and all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trust yourself. Listen to yourself. Be yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And don’t be afraid to leave it all behind to find yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Luxia, Leave. Leave the one who doesn’t treat you the way you deserve. Leave the one who shames you. Leave your expectations behind. Be brave and courageous and start listening to yourself. Your heart. Your mind. Your intuition. Your desires. Your loves. Your needs. Your wants. Your hopes. Your ideas. Listen to yourself. YOUR […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,136],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Letters-to-Strong-Women.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5784,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions\/5784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxannemerket.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
You are so strong. So incredible. And you have so much life to live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n