You deserve to be loved unconditionally.

Do you remember how you’d love everyone else so freely?

How you’d put all of your lover’s needs above your own?

How you’d drop anything and everything to make sure they were happy?

And they would never do the same for you, not even halfway?

That was you performing for love and avoiding yourself.

I know it feels scary to look within yourself.

Scared of what you might find, because what if you don’t like it?

Or what if you’ve been taught you shouldn’t like it?

But do you remember what one of our mottos was when we were a teenager?

“Be the change you want to see in the world.”

We didn’t fully understand what it meant then, not to the extent we do now.

But for us at the time, it represented that if you don’t like something, change it.

And that works in more than one way.

If you look in the mirror and drop your mask only to find something you think is ugly, that’s okay.

You have the power to accept it.

And you have the power to change it.

You have the power to ask yourself:

“Do I dislike this part of me because it doesn’t feel good to me and isn’t something I want to carry into the future?”

Or

“Do I believe I shouldn’t like this part of me because my parents, my friends, my mentors, someone I looked up to, or society said I shouldn’t?”

You’ve lost your trust in yourself because you’ve been abandoning yourself for the sake of everyone else.

Aren’t you tired, my love?

Aren’t you tired of chasing love outside of yourself?

Aren’t you tired of never feeling good enough?

Aren’t you tired of believing you’re not deserving of being loved for you?

We forgot for awhile that we can give ourselves the unconditional love we gave out so freely.

We can validate ourselves, even if we think it doesn’t mean the same at first.

We can kiss and hug our own body, no matter how uneasy it feels at first.

We can take ourselves on dates, buy ourselves gifts, whisper sweet nothings in the mirror.

Eventually along the way, you realize you were always deserving of the unconditional love you were seeking.

And you had the power inside of you all along.

xo, Jordan