There are days when the weight feels too heavy —
when the path you are walking seems to vanish under your feet,
and the dreams you once carried so brightly begin to flicker in the wind.
If you are standing in one of those days now,
please hear this:
You are not weak because you are tired.
You are not lost because the way forward feels hidden.
You are not broken because the world feels heavier than your heart knows how to hold.
You are still becoming.
You are still rising.
You are still made of the same light that carried you through every other storm.
Strength is not the absence of struggle.
It is the decision to stay open when the world tries to make you close.
It is the willingness to believe in the sunrise even before the night has lifted.
It is choosing, again and again, to trust that your soul knows the way —
even when your mind can’t yet see the horizon.
Your storm is not the end of you.
It is the carving of you.
It is shaping you into someone even deeper, even truer, even more radiant than you were before.
You are not failing.
You are forging yourself.
And when the winds finally quiet,
you will find that you have not only survived —
you have become the calm.
You are stronger than you know.
You are stronger than the storm. 🌿
— Celeste Rae
soul reflection, resilience, healing through storms, personal growth, letters to the soul
