Your voice doesn’t need to be universal, perfect, or objectively “right” to matter. You are not here to articulate grand, all-encompassing truths. You are here to express your truth — the deeply subjective, cellular, messy experience of being alive — and in doing so, you allow nature, evolution, and life itself to speak through you.

Avoidance wears many spiritual disguises. I have so much grace for the early phase, when your nervous system is catching up, when you’re still building the inner scaffolding and it’s truly not time yet. But there’s a point when “not yet” becomes “never,” and when you’re not actually waiting anymore… you’re avoiding.

There are very few things in life you can count on. People will leave and identities will shed like old skin. The world will change around you. Money will come and go, happiness will ebb and flow. Life will happen, and as it does, almost nothing will stay the same. But you do have one thing that will never abandon you: your voice.