pick-a-photo: what does your inner child need to hear?

let’s check in & just take a moment to acknowledge how much we’ve GROWN. take a break from allllllll that love ish w/ me, babes !!!

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A M E T H Y S T

absent. that’s the first word that comes to mind when i look at the spread i’ve pulled together for this message. who was absent in your life growing up? was there a “favorite child,” a deadbeat parent, or did you grow up in a household in which your -

personal nurturing wasn’t put at the forefront. more like a “i have a kid so i’m just going through the motions. because i have to.” i keep seeing a visual of little white socks, walking down a path, and turning to see if they’re watching you - just to see that they aren’t. -

know that you were not supposed to grow up like this - spirit wants you to know that being alone isn’t fair. it isn’t how you’re supposed to feel. it’s just how the cards were dealt, and in exchange, you get to be somebody who knows how to love unconditionally - even if it -

doesn’t seem like that. even if it's unfair.

do you know how rare it is to find somebody who is able to acknowledge flaws, but still love others? that is a kindness put into your being that cannot be taken away. hold onto it. you know that in the silence, -

the absence - you still have ties to the ones who loved you an arms’ length away. you learned how to bridge in these gaps for love. the magician here tells me that you need to keep digging in deeper, see that things are not as empty as they may feel. -

look at the relationships around you. have you noticed that there’s love in the silence as well? numbness does not mean you shouldn’t try. you are not as alone as you think - know that in the silence and the space you’ve been able to see where you need to go. -

that clarity is spirit guiding you. that clarity is somebody with you, and it’s an absolute strength, you know? people admire your ability to love. they don’t know why or how you still choose to love them. your love is a gift. -

and you truly know what it means to pick and choose the ones you love, and i’m here to tell you you’ve done well.

“i’m sorry i never made you feel seen. i never felt seen. so i did what i knew how to do best back to you. -

the only difference is that you chose to love me through it when i couldn’t love myself through it. that’s a selflessness i don’t deserve. i hope you never lose that. i hope i don't do more to take away from that.”

R O S E Q U A R T Z

who made you feel like you weren’t enough growing up? i sense a lot of comparisons. this sense of “you think your problems are bad? listen to mine.” first off, that’s toxic - and that automatically grants you the right to take a moment to feel your -

pain. do not let somebody belittling it force you to not feel. i’m also getting a lot of “if you did it my way, it wouldn’t be this way.” “my way” isn’t enough, though. “this way” - YOUR way - is. you know you made the choices you had to with what you had - and that’s not much, -

seeing that your abilities far surpassed the circumstances given. you were born to challenge things and change things. that’s why you feel like you’re not enough, you know? that’s the desire to not want to settle, simmering. with the page of cups here i see a need to feel -

validated, seen. you are heard. you are enough. god, you are more than enough. do you understand that? you are here - right here - with me as you read this. you have a way to read this. and you have obligations that will propel you forward.

know that spirit wants to -

acknowledge that whoever told you such things growing up… it was a projection of their inadequacies. i know this sounds cliché. “i told you not to get attached” translates to “i am not emotionally mature enough to help you navigate this.” “if you had listened, it wouldn’t have -

happened” translates to “i didn’t know you could do that because i was stubborn. i lacked foresight and the ability to see what’s truly going on.” read those translations again. do you see how you were always enough? you were gifted with the ability to see things for what they -

are, to have the bravery to change things. “i failed you because i wasn’t enough” will forever be too hard to say for them, but know that’s the truth. how is that not enough? that is bravery. that is the willingness to be more.

know that these confines you grew up in gave you -

the ability to see things differently. ask questions, ask for validation. i keep seeing a table with paper and pencils all over it, somebody yelling in another room. look at where you are now in comparison to that. spirit will give what you’ve been asking for - more - to you. -

remind yourself of this for me: you see more than there is to the eye and do not ever punish yourself for that. it’s not that you weren’t enough. it’s that what was around you wasn’t enough for you. remind your inner child that. you’ll know who to go to. 888.

J A D E

hi. i’m starting this message off with a virtual hug. push some of the heaviness that you’re feeling onto me for a minute. a lot has happened. you were dealt an unfair hand. things kept piling up, huh? one minute you felt like everything was fine and then the next -

something… so unimaginable, almost un-processable, happens. and this baggage has acted as a barrier. “i’m not good enough because i have this going on.” “this happened to me once so i shouldn’t even try to think i’m better.” -

you need to understand that their actions - what they did to you - was not designed to be FOR YOU. it’s unfair that it happened TO YOU. the three of wands in reverse tells me that you’re holding back a lot out of fear because of past actions.

why are you letting -

something you’ve furiously fought to let go of resurface, then? listen up, babe. a bad relationship does not and cannot will define the way you love, do you understand that? your fear - the fact that you’ve acknowledged being afraid of showing love and anger the way -

people showed theirs to you - is enough to pull you into the light. so stand in that light. screaming matches will always be hard but you know you have the strength in you to say no. you know what you can do to push forward. do you see how much you’ve managed to accomplish -

while carrying he burdens of others? i keep seeing a dark wooden table. something burgundy. understand that pain happens and the root of it hardly stems from the desire to hurt you.

“i am sorry for hurting you when i was hurting.” -

read that again. and again. now, roll your shoulders back. continue. you never needed their validation or their approval. you’re the one who needs to really let themselves be happy. -

don’t let the way pain and hurt feels trap you in because it’s easier to understand that than it is to understand what happiness looks like. you have a chance at real, true happiness here. ten of cups happiness. bottoms up, baby.

thank you all for doing this pick-a-photo! sending so much love light and healing.

as always, think of every typo in this as a kiss from ME. i'm trying, i'm trying!

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