we are like muscles, in order to grow we must be torn down && in order to be strong we must push through the moments where we feel weak — this is my reminder to you that feeling weak is not the same as being weak. it’s not that you’re not strong, but sometimes it’s that you need to be reminded that you are strong we all do, and thats okay. you’ve been through hell and back maybe even more than once and you’re still standing that is strong you are strong. * ** #YouMakeYou ** *
until you learn to face your own shadows you will continue to see them in others. because the truth is the world outside is simply a reflection of what is on the inside of you. — you can be thrown anything you can be presented with any crazy scenario you have no control over what happens TO you but that doesn’t matter because you have the full power to filter it in ANY way you choose. — failures and errors are gifts bumps in the road are runways shitty people are lessons but this perception is your choice * ** #YouMakeYou ** *
honest post ahead: i haven’t been posting everyday like I used to... it’s not because i’m too busy, thats not an excuse I would ever use, it’s because i’m troubled with the role of Instagram in sharing the message that I want to. Feel free to counter this, but I feel like now more than ever, IG has become « empty », all I see are booty pics people trying to get your money people doing things « for the gram » people looking for you to praise them and the like... Everything just feels so ...fake... on here and that is the LAST thing I want my messages to fall under. I’ll stop it there because I could rant for hours 😅 But I guess my question to you guys is, do you feel this way?? Is there a better way you would like to receive content from me? Email? fb? youtube? Open to any ideas! * also dis is me. on a black sand beach. in iceland. with a pure icelandic beer in hand. the first ingredient is 100% pure iceland water. it’s fine. this is my happiness. * xoxo * ** #YouMakeYou ** *
here’s a much needed reminder to fill your cup before you fill others & that you should never need to dim your light to brighten someone else’s. create your happiness create your light and THATS what will brighten others. — take it from someone who’s spent a majority of her life giving and rarely ever receiving.. it’s not worth it it doesn’t make you a better person. what makes you a good person is shining so bright for YOURSELF that you lighten others worlds. — there is a difference between giving light and sharing light and when you find it thats when your fire burns brightest. * ** #YouMakeYou ** *
you will break yourself open for people who don’t fill you, you will give to someone who will do nothing but take, you will stop & move mountains for those who will walk right past you you will lay yourself down for those who won’t even attempt to lift you up but that has all to do with them and not with you. sometimes thats hard to swallow but you are here only once know what you’re worth & know there is more — know there are stars you haven’t seen and loves you haven’t loved, know there are days you haven’t lived and dreams you haven’t dreamed. know there are suns yet to dawn and light you haven’t felt. && know that there is the rest of your life you have yet to know. go and find it ✌🏻 * ** #YouMakeYou ** *
to become better to become greater you must forget your fear & you must forget your pain. you must ignore that internal voice screaming at you to stay where you’re comfortable protecting you from what you don’t yet know. — you must forget your limits & your doubts and when you can’t forget these things you must instead learn to negotiate with them. they are valid things, but are they mere remembrances taking more power than they deserve? only you know the answers to these questions. but only you can take power in the fact that sometimes it’s harder making the decision to go forward than actually moving forward. * ** #YouMakeYou ** *
the truth is that we shatter we crack we break, but how else would the light get in? * ** #YouMakeYou ** * 📍Iceland (sorry for my absence, be back to regularly scheduled postings soon🙃)