Another year around the sun ☺️☀️🌊❤️ Fitting to wear my very favorite birthday suit in all my glory to truly celebrate the day 😜

With this birthday I’m taking pause to allow myself to feel ALL the feels. Birthdays are often portrayed as only a time for celebration but in reality it holds a large range of emotions. Might be “unconventional” for me to share not only happiness for my day but one of my missions I take to heart is to advocate against toxic positivity that dismisses the uncomfortable & hard moments in life that should be openly expressed & felt without shaming. Today I both dance in celebration & embrace myself while grieving.

With my health struggling I feel myself grieving more for the last 9 yrs of battling with the diseases that have struck my body. I thought by now I would be in remission & a lot of things being different. I’ve experienced many of my dreams dying. I question what I could be & where I would be at in life if I didn’t have these diseases, at times I feeling this suffocating pressure of feeling of life being stolen by these diseases.

While feeling all this I also feel at the same time there is so much of my life to celebrate & be thankful for. I celebrate & cherish my family, friends, & a community that supports & loves me unconditionally - which is such an incredible gift to receive. I celebrate & give thanks for my integrative medical team where the practitioners see not only my body but my soul; who advocate & take responsibility in my healing journey. I have had the wonderful opportunities on my well days to have incredible life experiences. I celebrate that with each year I have become more free, empowered, rawly self expressive, owning my power, developing deeper love for my Self, & witnessing myself grow through the years.

Some dreams may have died but new & beautiful dreams have been born from the ashes. As with each year there is a birthday, with each moment is a time of birth - rebirth. I embrace & celebrate all my past Selfs. I’m so proud of the human I am today & feeling so much love & gratitude for who I am.

Let’s soar ✨🕊🌻
xxx hugs & love 🤟🏼
remission~this is my year!
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