Permission to heal

One of my favorite songs is Permission by Ro James. He starts the track singing, “With your permission, I just wanna spend a little time with you.” Every time I hear it, I think about how much time I’ve spent getting to know myself and whether I’ve truly given myself the green light to heal.

Giving ourselves permission is really just allowing ourselves to say yes….yes to moving forward, yes to doing the inner work, yes to releasing old restrictions and outdated limitations. The truth is, even as adults, there are so many things we still don’t know. We don’t have it all figured out. And that’s okay. What matters is staying open to new ideas, new tools, and new ways of thinking that help us reach new heights in our healing and in our lives.

Part of giving myself permission to heal was admitting that there were areas of my life I’d refused to face. I had buried certain memories so deep in the back of my mind and went on living as if they didn’t exist. But true healing required me to trust myself enough to tackle some painful truths head-on.

Working through the big things demanded so much from me emotionally and spiritually. And to be honest, I was never really taught how to process any of it. Growing up, the message was always to just “get over it.” So I did what I knew: I tucked my pain away and kept moving, carrying a mind and heart full of suppressed memories I didn’t know how to unpack until I finally decided to give myself permission to do so.

A big part of all this was leaning into intention setting and manifesting to guide me through the toughest parts of myself. I set the intention to feel good and whole again and to truly get there, I had to rewrite the narrative of my life. That meant revisiting childhood memories and processing them with the wisdom I have now. It meant manifesting a new outcome and a new way of living.

I sank deep within myself, exploring how and why I exist, how I love, and what I was still holding onto. I released what I could and accepted what I couldn’t change often making silent promises to never feel that kind of pain again. Over time, that stuck energy transformed into something higher: permission to rediscover myself. Permission to be authentic. Permission to feel happy and healed.

Through this, I tapped into my creativity and let it guide me even further. I became more open, more free, more compassionate both with myself and with others.

So, give yourself the green light to heal. You’re worth every part of that journey.

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Till Death do us….