11/02/2025
In a recent catch up conversation with .co, we were looking at her website and I came across my 2024 manifesto inspired by 's poem - I have been a thousand different women.
This one is for the women we have been, and for the ones we are becoming.
I’ve made peace with all the women I have been.
The ones who stayed too long.
The ones who left too soon.
The ones who dimmed her light just to belong.
The ones who burned everything down to begin again.
I’ve laid flowers at their feet,
offered them honey and forgiveness,
and thanked them for surviving in the only ways they knew how.
They were never mistakes —
they were initiations.
Each one carried me closer to the woman I am now.
The temple I sit in today
was built from their bones.
The wisdom I speak
was born from their rivers —
the same rivers that carried me home to myself.
The life I live now is an answered prayer —
one those earlier versions of me dreamed of in whispers.
I have been a thousand different women.
And I honor them all. 🤎
As we enter November, which parts of yourself can you honor?
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