Maybe you’ve reached that place in your life where you’ve had enough – enough of trying to get your body back, trying to get noticed for all your hard work, trying to squeeze a little you-time into your schedule, or trying to stick to something… anything. Grit doesn’t live in this place — a bully does.

So hush that bully who says your body needs to go back in time, your worth needs recognizing by someone other than you, your time is not your rightful possession or you’re a failure if you stop and start. Silence that mean mindset with sheer grit.

I believe grit is rooted in your ability to embrace and accept exactly who you are, right here and right now, and then to move forward very powerfully and mindfully from that place of inner loveliness. That is loving and that is the only way to have true grit.

Your inner loveliness does not need to be bullied or demeaned any longer. Hush those voices that tell you it’s too late, that you’re not good, strong, talented, pretty, thin, out-going, young or old enough. Shut them down. Give them the finger. Do whatever you’ve got to do, but don’t let them dominate the air waves any longer. Tell them in no uncertain terms that they are no longer needed.

I’m constantly wrestling with a voice that wishes I were someone other than myself. Fuck you, voice. Yes, other people are awesome in their difference. I can simply love them for that, I don’t need you turning that love of different others into self-hating messages of worthlessness. I am great as I am. Let me be. I have work to do.