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are you willing?

what if it’s coming together in a way you didn’t expect? if all you’ve ever wanted is to be seen, heard and chosen, that’s your inner child. she wants to be listened to and she wants to be believed.

what is she telling you? small, untouched and bright-eyed? she wants to play. life is a game, it is an invitation that she has accepted. her heart is enormous, and for her, life is a fairy tale. she knows that believing is the best thing you can do to make anything come true. and you know she’s right because you still love the songs and the princesses who became heroes because they believed in love.

because what is a fairy tale? it’s a highly unlikely happy ending. it’s against all odds. it’s fate. and when you don’t believe, when you don’t listen to the inner child who is asking you to sit next to her, hold her, listen and believe, if you silence and disparage and yank away that dream, you’re doing it wrong. she doesn’t want your reality. she wants you to share in the dream.

the only reason the fairy tale hasn’t happened yet is because you were meant to live into a specific wisdom that protects her dream, this dream that makes your life beautiful. while she doesn’t need to be locked away in a fortress or a tower, like rapunzel, what your inner child needs to know is that there are no monsters or nightmares in this story –that there are no villains– only teachers. she needs to know that you’ll be kind, that you’ll listen and believe, and that you won’t abandon her, that you won’t abandon love, and that you’re willing for the fairy tale and for miracles to be real.