Dearest One-

No matter your age, race, gender, orientation, or belief system this is my love letter to you.

I want you to know that you are valuable. That value is not dependent on your circumstances or surroundings. Your value is not up for negotiation. It can’t be taken from you, or altered by anyone because it was woven right into your humanity by your divinity.

You are the only you this world is ever going to know. There has never been someone like you before nor will there ever be anyone else like you in the future. You are a miracle put into motion with a completely unique expression of truth, essence of love, and creation of life. Your seat at the table of humanity can’t be taken by anyone else. You simply being you, sitting at the table of humanity, creating the life you live before you, is valuable to all of us as a collective.

I want you to know that you are worthy. Much like your value, your worth is also not dependent on your circumstances or situation. It is not tethered to what other people think of you or how the world around you responds to you. Your worthiness is your birthright. It too was woven into your humanity by your divinity. It is a nonnegotiable part of your being.

Your worth is a lot like the air you breath, until something stops the flow of it, you don’t even realize how important it truly is to you. Your worth is linked to how much you believe you deserve in life. It’s linked to how lovable you believe you are and to what you allow don’t allow into your story. Your worth is a gateway to all of your experiences.

While your worthiness never changes, life experiences will try to limit your beliefs about your worth. Circumstances built by others who have adopted limitation about their own worth will try to convince you that you are not enough. Through their own limitation they will hand down ideas to you, training you to believe that you must work to prove that you are deserving, that you are lovable, and worthy of all the good and pleasing things in life. Know that no matter what parts of this you pick up and adopt as your own, the truth about your worth is always an option.

I want you to know that you will never have to make someone else feel small to feel ok with yourself. That’s right, there is never a need to make someone else feel small. If you feel the tendency to knock someone else down to tamp out someone’s light then you have allowed your worth and value to be taken hostage by fear.

There will always be a moment just before you get swept up in the emotion of trying to diminish someone else. In this moment you will always have a choice. This choice will come from one of two places, love or fear. Choose wisely. Choose as if you yourself are standing on the other end of the situation. Know that with this choice, you are showing the world what you believe about yourself, your worth, and your value.

There is enough room for all of us to thrive, for every light to shine, and for every person to rise within themselves, as they become more of who they truly are. You, like every person at the table of humanity, are not here to shrink down and become less as you live your life. You are here to allow your heart to expand through your humanity. You are designed to evolve and become more you with every experience.

I want you to know that life will get hard. You may want to shut out the world. You may even want to give up because it all feels insurmountable. There is nothing wrong with you when these hard moments show up in your life. I want you to know there is a better moment just ahead, and I am not just saying it, I have lived it.

Try thinking of these hard moments as part of your human contract. They are not designed to paralyze you or break you. They are designed to help you find your way back to your truth, because somehow along the way you have listened too much to the limitation and you have forgotten about your worth and your value.

So learn to use those hard moments as the giant neon sign that they are, pointing you back in the direction of something that you forgot. Use them to clear away the limitation and step back into your ownership of your worth and value. These moments are simply chapters in the epic story of your life. There are always better moments coming, but only you have the power to write that new chapter for yourself.

I want you to know that you are the author of your story and the main character who lives it all into existence. You have the power to make it anything you want it to be. No matter what hand you have been dealt, no matter what life or other people have shown you along they way, only you have the power to write your story. You write that story one thought, one belief, and one feeling at a time. The truth is you have the power to create your reality.

Trust me I know it doesn’t feel like this at first, that is why I have to remind you of this truth. The echoes of handed down limitation from other people will make it feel as if they have power over your story. But they do not. You have the power to choose what you believe. But this means you have to be an active participant in what you are allowing to run through your mind.

Ask yourself, does this thought or belief make me feel diminished or does it allow me to expand? You will never have to be perfect nor will you ever have to catch every thought, but you do have the power to own your role as author of your story.

I want you to know that your focus is important. Your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs are powerful and create everything that unfolds before you. So where you focus those thoughts, feelings, and beliefs is where you will find yourself in your story. Knowing how to harness the ability to focus will help you write a story that feels good and empowers you.

As a human being you will experience contrast, it is inevitable. This contrast is designed to show you what you don’t want so that you can fully understand and own what you do want. I want to make sure you know what happens when you pair contrast with focus.

You can’t just say I don’t want something over and over again, and then expect what you do want to show up. This is because in saying what you don’t want your focus is still very much held on the very thing you do not want. But if instead you use what you don’t want to point your focus in the direction of what you do want, and you then send out every thought and feeling in the direction of your desire, you pave a path for it to come right to you.

This is where you once again have to be an active participant in in what you are allowing to run through your mind. Remember you are writing your story one thought, belief, and feeling at a time. So keep an eye on where you are focusing your attention.

I also want you to know you are not alone on this human journey. You get to ask for help along the way. Whisper it to the divine, cry it out to the universe, ask someone you trust, or simply quiet your mind and listen to your own heart. Just keep reaching in the direction of the light in your life. Keep reaching for and tapping into all the things that feel like an undeniable “yes” inside of your heart. Put yourself in the way of as much stuff as you can that builds you up and connects you to your worth, your value, and the power of your unique story.

I have so much love for you and I am so grateful we sit together at the table of humanity. Thank you for being you in all your messy human glory.

XOXO- Alicia