A manifesto.
A declaration of who you are,
What you stand for,
And what you indent to do about it.

Have you ever written one?

This past week, I was invited to speak at the
Women | Future Conference 2023.
A panel of women.
A discussion on identity.
And the topic of manifesto’s came up.

Transformation.
The healing of our scars.
Understanding our scars.
Becoming.
Becoming the evolution of self,
Requires direction.
A path to the desired self.

For me,
That was a woman I envisioned of becoming.
A woman I was pretending to be,
Helping me hide my scars.
From the world.
Somedays from myself.

Underneath the persona,
Was deep desire for transformation.
And a desire to be,
Not, to pretend to be.

I declared her.
I declared the evolution of me.
A spiritual manifesto if you may.

Oftentimes we fear to commit to ourselves.
Because quite frankly,
We don’t believe we deserve it.
We fear the evolution of Self,
Because our scars,
Our pain,
And suffering is familiar.
We know what to do with pain.
The unknown, is scary.
The evolution of self, is scary.

Self-responsibility.
Stands in the way between suffering and joy.
Our self-responsibility,
To take a stand for what we want.
To acknowledge that we deserve what we want.
And to commit,
To the action that will allow us to become.

Those actions.
Those moments of reflection can be painful, dark,
And lonely.
Through the darkness is evolution.

A manifesto.
A spiritual guide.

Answer these three questions. Simply.
One sentence each.

Who are you?
Who do you want to become?
And waht do you intend to do about it?

YOU DESERVE IT.

Christina