Fall In Love With Your Future Self (An Invitation)
I don’t know about you but the beginning of this year has felt anxiously mundane. Meaning I’ve felt a pull in my body going in two directions.
One direction is cynicism. A familiar story of things not working out in my favor. This feeling of essential dread I've had in many low points in my life. Can you relate?
The other direction is a hopeful movement. Meaning the truth of what I deserve…things working out because I work hard, I am smart, I am talented, and I have the gift of turning something out of nothing.
The profound act of creativity is unapologetically tapping into my dreamer self.
My dreamer self sees my future self and I’m in love with her.
I see her in the early morning when I wake up with the golden sun shining on my face. I feel the radiating warmth on my cheeks and I feel her.
She’s on stage. She’s in a white pantsuit. There’s a roaring crowd in front of her. The roars sound like waves crashing in the ocean. She’s in this moment. Her heart is open and she begins to receive. She receives the love, the recognition, and most of all being witnessed in her truths. She is more than just confident, she’s entirely composed of her own love. A love so fierce she can whisk away any naysayers. They don’t even try to mess with her because no one would dare undermine a woman who is deeply connected and in love with who she is.
This is my future self. I’m in love with her in a way where I’ll protect her at all costs.
Because this is why I created Sincerely Miss Mary in 2017. She was the future self I needed in my darkest moments. The moments I had no one to turn to. The moments I felt lonely.
When I doubt my dreams, I turn to her.
When I doubt my direction, I look towards her.
When I doubt my existence, I am guided by her.
She’s my embodied self.
My higher self.
My core self.
We all have this embodied version of us.
We entered this world as pure embodied souls.
As one with the earth.
We yearned for love, compassion, and acceptance because this was our birthright.
This is what we have always deserved before the world got loud and told us otherwise
Who is your highest self? What are they wearing? How do they love themselves? What do they model to others in a way that expands and heals the world?
Can you, even for a few seconds, be this person, and feel what it’s like to be your future self?
An embodied self lives within every one of us.
And to access this part of us and let its truths move from our body and into words is a profound act of memoir writing.
The creation of your story can crack the world open in ways needed to heal it.
Sincerely,
Mary
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