Inner Strength

"You are so strong" is a phrase I've heard from a very young age. My mom used to tell people even when I was like 4 or 5 years old, "She always lands on her feet." Until this year, and very recently, I never understood what that meant.

Inner strength doesn't just happen. It's built the same as any muscle in your body is. It's feeling like you can't do something, and then persevering. That's how you become strong, internally, and it builds confidence. There's no magic pill. You have to rip the heads off of demons sometimes even though they're gross, disgusting, and they smell.

It doesn't mean you don't cry, cuss, or scream right before you do it either. Often, that emotional release allows you to regroup, and pick up the pieces in order to create a new plan of action for yourself. So, do it! Release it! And knock what you actually need to do out of the park! You only have you, in the end, much of the time. You are incredibly lucky if you have people around you who are truly trying to help you.

It can also come from not doing the easy thing and taking the path of least resistance out. It comes from choosing to stand up for someone, not throwing them under the bus or gossiping about them. Even making it stop when it starts. It can be the minor little things like that each day that can be scary too that will add up to inner strength.

Inner strength comes from it all feeling messed up and scary, and doing it anyway. Then, when you get through it, there's a pride in yourself for the accomplishment that no one can ever take away from you. It teaches you about yourself, and you get to know yourself, and each time take another step into who you are!