I Am Enough

I remember sitting next to him, in the car, and he kind of sneered a little, as he turned to me and said.

“You know what, your spirit is just so unbreakable.”

And I guess he would know. He’d spent 3 years trying to break me.

I sat in that seat, with tears rolling down my face, wondering how the hell I’d ended up there.

How was it, that the man I once thought was my soulmate, was saying to me..

“You’re disgusting. You’re sick, you’re angry, you’re abusive... I see all that and love you anyway - no one else would be crazy enough to love you. You’d be nothing without me.”

And after years of him slowly breaking down my defences. I believed him.

But, this story, it’s not about him.

Because it’s been about him, and people like him, for far too long.

This story is about You. And anyone who has found themselves in a situation where they've been abused, beaten, bullied, assaulted or thrown away.

You. The woman who survived it all. The one who was broken into pieces so excruciatingly small, that you questioned more than once if you’d ever be able to put yourself back together again.

Maybe you’re still questioning.

And I’m here to tell you, that you can.

Because you, my dear, you are unbreakable.

Though the light in your eyes may dim at various points, you fight with every part of your being to get that light back. No one gets to take that from you.

I hope you’ll come to realise, that ultimately, the only way people like him were able to hurt you, is because you doubted your own magnificence to begin with.

We will only allow people to abuse us, to the degree in which we abuse ourselves.

And that stops now.

Because the truth is that you are enough.

No matter what anyone says, what anyone does. No matter how they’ve hurt you. Or how much you’ve hurt others.

You are enough. Exactly as you are. Right now.

And so, my darling the girl, the woman with the unbreakable spirit, and a light that continues to shine, you own that. Own that with every part of you.

You are enough.

I am enough.

We are enough.