🌬️ Benediction for the Journey: On Letting Go

Letting go is not weakness.
Letting go is not failure.
Letting go is not giving up.

Letting go is sacred.
Letting go is survival.
Letting go is Womanist work.

Because when you’ve been taught to hold on —
to stay too long, pray too long, endure too long —
letting go becomes the bravest thing you can do.

💔 The Weight We Were Never Meant to Carry

There comes a time when your body knows it before your mind does.
This is too heavy.
This is not mine.
This is killing the version of me that still believes in joy.

So you release it:

• The relationship you had to fight yourself to stay in.

• The dream that turned into a burden.

• The role they forced you to play.

• The guilt they handed you like a family heirloom.

• The shame that was never yours to carry.

You don’t have to apologize for laying it all down.
You were never meant to be the sacrificial lamb.

🌿 Letting Go Is Ancestral Too

Our grandmothers let go in hidden ways:

• Quietly quitting what tried to steal their joy.

• Choosing laughter even in grief.

• Leaving with only the clothes on their back and a baby on their hip.

• Letting go of who the world said they had to be.

Letting go made space for you.
Now you let go — to make space for her.

🕊️ What Letting Go Really Means

• It means choosing peace over proving your point.

• It means being loyal to your healing, not your history.

• It means finally loving yourself enough to stop begging for what was never love.

Letting go doesn’t mean it didn’t matter.
It means you matter more now.

✨ Benediction for the Journey: On Letting Go

May you feel the power in your release.
May your hands grow stronger from unclenching.
May you trust that what you let go of was never greater than what you are stepping into.
May you know:
letting go is not the end of your story — it is the breath that begins a new one.