Emotions are messages from our inner universe.

We welcome the joyful ones

and run from the heavy ones

as if pain has nothing to teach.

But when we allow ourselves to listen,

really listen,

we hear the quiet cry

of something longing to be heard.

When we stop running,

when we sit with what aches,

we set it free.

And in that space,

where silence meets truth,

a softer kind of self love

starts to appear.