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You Can Be Strong and Still Sob in The Shower.
Being emotional doesn’t make you weak. It makes you alive.
Somewhere along the way, we got taught a lie.
That if you’re ambitious, powerful, high-functioning…
You can’t be emotional.
You can’t cry in the car.
You can’t rage on the floor.
You can’t melt, spiral, ache.
You’ve got to “hold it together.”
Smile. Deliver. Perform.
But babe — no.
You get to be the woman who leads and still bleeds.
Who holds space for others and still breaks down at midnight.
Who runs sh*t and still gets wrecked by her own healing.
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OFH isn’t about being happy all the time.
It’s about being honest with yourself all the time.
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The tears. The rage. The grief.
It’s all data.
It’s all movement.
It’s all part of your aliveness.
Most people abandon their emotions because they’re too wild.
Too unpredictable. Too raw.
But you?
You’re done abandoning yourself for “pseudo control.”
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OFH Prompt:
Where have you been holding it in…
because you thought being emotional meant being “less than”?
Let it move through you.
Let it rise. Let it roar. Let it release.
You are not broken.
You are not too much.
You are human.
And that’s f*cking divine.
M x