Some of us today will wake up with a sense of uncertainty.
We will walk down the hall with the same inner conflict we have every day since we can remember.
Some of us will wake up today hungover, ashamed and with a deep disgust within ourselves that we yet again let substance win over our truest longing for sobriety.
Some of us will wake up hiding the cookie package, crumpling the chip bag, hearing the screams of defeat echo that “you’ll always be fat and unhealthy.”
One of us will have woken up after standing up to a bully, deciding that today they will no longer have power over you.
One of us will have prayed for the first time ever… hoping for just one miracle teetering on the brink of a rock bottom.
One of us will wake up and draw the curtains open for the first time in a decade… unsure if the anxiety will let them outside for even just a minute.
One of us will need a friend today. One of us will have a huge victory, and of us will no doubt have a setback.
Whomever you are, wherever you are… draw the shades, let the light in, let the bad shit out. Own it, claim it, trust it, and move through it.
Rise on up… show your face to the morning.
Show up uninvited to all the places within you trying to hold you back. Today matters, and so do you 
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