Beautiful you

There was a time in my life where I felt I was completely broken. That I'd never be able to piece myself back together.

I saw lots of beautiful things around me, but didn't see how I fit in with any of that beauty.

I couldn't see how the broken bits of my past built up such a colourful and beautiful life. I didn't see how that past, which had broken me had made me strong.

All I could see when I looked in the mirror was pain, behind an almost blank expressionless gaze.

Until one day, I was reminded that I wasn't

broken I was just healing myself. And sometimes we have to strip all of that back, and I realised that I couldn't necessarily make myself whole as I was once before.

I could put all those pieces back together and make something even more beautiful. Something full of colour, life, experience, love, compassion, character and strength.

So, if you ever feel broken, just know that you're building yourself back up, you're healing and while it won't happen over night, it will happen.