hi guys! it's time for a pod! this is the power i am going to keep calling on myself to radiate: self-love!!!

I had fear around putting myself on the internet, for my mask to be revealed and removed, yet in this way of freely expressing myself, I do embody the feeling of *freedom*.

No longer keeping this part of me masked, as I show up authentically online for myself and the world to watch, I have in me a renown appreciation for the amount of flexibility it brings me as I move through live in GENERAL. When I have nothing to hide, I move with clarity, so I'll show my energy, I'll show my *crazy*, my intuitive side, and my emotional empathic side as well. I'm showing you all my cards, and it's because there is no longer a game of me against another.

It's just me showing you the hand I was given by the unknown, and while I appreciate and celebrate mine, I hope you can begin to appreciate yours. It's never been a competition when it comes to our authenticity, there is nothing but "it is". My hand serves my way of life while yours follows suit ;)

I am many things, and I love that about me. I learned how strong our hearts are regardless of fear through my papa, and how no matter the circumstance, the love he expressed through fear still came from what his heart wanted and believed was right. I am grateful for such a life where I understand how rewarding hardship and pain may be to battle, yet as for my papa and I, we are both blessed to see that the growth it demands creates a new life, a work of art, the gift of a love that is meant to love through battles. This is a love you fight for, a love that has the quality of grit.

Again, I look down at my hand and pay a little more attention to this card today, as I go through the flow of how grateful I am to have been dealt it, past shame, past social norms, and towards humanity, I see the gift.

You're a gift, in your own unique way! I love you, and let's celebrate it!

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Don't fold your hand, show your hand. If you're scared, let me hold your hand. I love what you've been dealt with because it is so YOU. YOU are what make this hand, in my hand, SPECIAL! You give these cards meaning! To me, that is what means a LOT to me, you. HOW COOL! :3