“ What Killed Me Made Me Stronger “

3.21.23

You know when a bird is old enough, its mom will push it out if the nest. That fall down is probably the most scariest thing, until it realizes that it can fly. I firmly believe, and I have lived to see that in your weakest scariest moments, you find out how strong and fearless you truly are. I have suffered from depression before so severe that at times I thought about suicide. Laying in the bed alone in my room crying. Overtime you heal though and one day I just decided that I couldn’t do it anymore. I had to get up , change my sheets, and move. Now I am truly the happiest I have ever been. At the time I thought for sure that it would kill me. That I would never see my real smile again. Now it’s all I ever do. In your darkest moments you really get to see how bright the light inside you can shine. Life will knock you down time and time again but each time you have to pick yourself back up off the floor, best believe you get stronger and stronger each time. I think of it like a starfish. You know how when they lose a limb over time it grows back. That’s how it is, a piece of you may get weak or even die, but it always comes back even better than it was before. I went through a terrible relationship and completely forgot what love looked like. Going through my healing process and relearning it all over again let me feel it even stronger. Now it’s all up and through my life. You ever heard the saying “” Life doesn’t get easier, you just get stronger “ ? To me that’s always been a contradictive statement. I can say it proudly that my life was hard , more than a few times. Although it didnt get easier UNTIL I got stronger. The two go hand in hand. Life will push you and smack you around, but when your are so rooted in who you are and what you are meant to accomplish. It will never be able to knock you down again. Once you let your weakness break you or “ kill “ you , you rebirth a part of yourself and become even stronger. I joined a poetry contest a few months back, my entry is actually what this post is based off of. The topic was “ What Makes You Strong “ . I eloquently put that it was all my weakness , the things that “ killed “ me was what made me strong. I’m still here. Your still here. We have all been though points in our lives where we didn’t think we would make it through. Sometimes we don’t even know our own strengths. I saw a quote that said “ Your weakness are just your strength in motion “ . You have to build it up. It may be low right now but best believe once you are up there will be no knocking you all the way down again. Now as we grow and evolve in life of course there will be difficult things that come our way. What helps me is remembering when I thought I wouldn’t make it and I did. Remembering when there was a time where I thought for sure I would break but I’m still here put together as ever. I don’t want to sound cliche, but always believe that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and when you’ve been in the dark for so long it can be hard to think that way I know. That just means that you are about to burn a whole lot brighter when you’re out of it. You just have to move. Build the strength up. Get back up off the floor. If you feel like you are at the bottom and have nothing left and it’s all breaking down , that means the only thing left is for you to go up and build. It’s okay to be vulnerable and to be weak because being able to come back from that , you’ll see how strong you were all along. Being strong doesn’t build more strength , you’ll always find more strength in your weaknesses. So don’t live life denying your weaknesses, feel them, embrace them, and I promise you they’ll will no longer persist. I used to think when I was weak and I just let myself sit with it was a bad thing, because I have things I want to accomplish and create in this world which I’m sure you all do too. Then I realized that was a part of strength building. It gives you purpose to get back up. I’m not saying this will happen over night , it’s just like at the gym you won’t get super muscular after one session, but just keep going. Small steps can make a huge impact. Even if every move is hard to take because the situation feels like it’s killing you. You can take it from me that in the end , it’s only making you stronger. It’s not until you fall all the way to the bottom of the ocean you realize how long you can hold your breath for , because it’s a long way to the top. I did it though and I promise you can too. I hope you took something from todays post. Remember that even you acknowledging what your going through has made you weak, is the first acknowledgment of your strength. 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