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Dear Future Self | Self-Worth, Healing, Resilience & Personal Growth · The Letterbox Podcast

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  Welcome back to the Letterbox podcast, wherever you are
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  listening from today. Thank you so much for being
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  here. Day's letter is one that's
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  addressed to a future self, but to be honest, I think these
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  words are ones that we need to hear today.
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  It's travelled to us from Leonie in Perth, Australia and it's a
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  deeply honest reflection on resilience, healing, identity
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  and becoming. It speaks to the parts of us
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  that have carried grief, doubt and change and the strength that
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  it takes to keep going. Anyway, before I read you this
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  beautiful letter, if you haven't already, please do press the
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  So let's read today's letter, dear future self.
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  Now is the time. The time to stop shrinking.
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  The time to stop questioning your worth.
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  The time to stop waiting for permission to become who you
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  were always meant to be. For so many years, you have
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  carried more than most people could see.
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  You've walked through seasons of heartbreak, uncertainty,
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  disappointment, grief, loss, and challenges that tested every
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  part of your spirit. There were moments when you felt
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  broken, moments when you doubted yourself, and moments when you
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  wondered if life would ever feel lighter.
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  Look at you now. Every hardship became a lesson.
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  Every challenge became a teacher.
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  Every loss became a redirection. Every set back became
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  preparation for something greater.
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  Nothing was wasted. The tears taught you compassion,
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  the disappointments taught you resilience.
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  The grief taught you the depths of your love.
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  The waiting taught you patience and the struggles taught you
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  strength. You are not who you were 10
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  years ago, five years ago or even one year ago.
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  You are a woman who has learnt how to rise.
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  A woman who continues to choose hope when life has given her
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  reasons not to. A woman who keeps her heart open
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  despite the pain she has experienced.
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  A woman who continues to believe in healing, love, purpose, and
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  possibility. You have spent so much of your
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  life looking after others, supporting others, encouraging
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  others, and helping others find their way.
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  Now it is time to fully step into your own light.
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  Not the version of yourself the world expected.
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  Not the version shaped by fear. Not the version weighed down by
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  old stories. Your full self.
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  The woman who carries wisdom from every season she has
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  survived. The woman whose softness is not
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  weakness, but strength. The woman whose voice deserves
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  to be heard. The woman whose story has the
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  power to help others heal. You were never meant to simply
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  survive life. You were meant to live it, to
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  create, to inspire, to lead, to teach, to love deeply, to trust
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  yourself, to trust God, to trust the calling that has been
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  quietly growing within you all along.
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  The path ahead may not always be clear, but you no longer need
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  every answer before taking the next step.
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  You have already proven that you can walk through uncertainty and
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  emerge stronger. Stand tall in who you are.
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  A daughter, a wife, a healer, a leader, a wahini of strength and
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  grace, A woman connected to her ancestors, her faith, her
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  purpose, and her truth. The world does not need a
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  smaller version of you, it needs the real you, the courageous
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  you, the authentic you, the wholehearted you.
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  Everything you have experienced has prepared you for this
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  chapter. This is not the beginning of
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  your story. This is the unfolding of the
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  woman. This is the unfolding of the
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  woman you are always becoming. Keep going, your greatest
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  chapters are still being written with love your future self.
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  Thank you so much Leonie for such a wonderful and inspiring
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  letter. It really is a reminder that
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  nothing we go through is wasted and that becoming who we are
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  isn't always loud or sudden, but sometimes it is slow and steady
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  and hard won. I'm sure that your words today
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  will stay with us long beyond us hearing them.
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  So again, if you have felt moved by today's letter, please do
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  follow the podcast, go and find us on social media and share
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  with someone who you think might enjoy it too.
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  These really are the best ways to support the podcast and it
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  means that I can keep bringing you these amazing letters from
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  all of these wonderful people who are putting in so much time
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  and effort into sharing. If you've got a letter yourself
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  that you would like to be featured on the podcast, then
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  please do e-mail me at theletterboxpodcast@outlook.com
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  or find me on social media and send me a message.
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  Until next time, sending you so much light and laugh.