Strength in softness.

I am someone who is headstrong. I am someone who goes after what I want, even when it doesn’t seem to make sense to others. I am someone that believes in the powerful force of feminine energy— that it has the ability to uplift and transcend the energy of this planet for the better. 

For some time, I used my strength as a driving force. Don’t get me wrong, it can feel empowering to do so. But in my recent years, I have come to realize that being soft is equally as brave as being strong. Softness requires vulnerability. Softness requires the ability to be tender & understanding toward ourselves and others. Being soft doesn’t mean that you get to be pushed around. It means that you have the love within yourself to let others in. To let goodness in. To receive as much as you give and to trust the path that you are on.

Softness also means that you have enough love toward yourself to set certain boundaries, and to have awareness of what you need around you to support them. Softness means saying yes, but it also means saying no. Both are powerful, both are valid— creating a delicate dance of openness and trust within.

Softness combined with strength is true power. It allows one to be fierce and forthright, yet open and relaxed. It allows us to take a breath and say, ah! I don’t always have to fight fists forward, because my strength is equally balanced with my love, or with my softness. When love leads, passion and power prevail through that love. They speak in ways that lift others and create connection. They speak in ways of love. 

Be strong // be soft // be love.