How is it that we unlock our futures and let go of the trauma and let go of the heartache

and the challenges and the mountains and the giants and every disappointment and every failure?

How is it that we are able to walk away from the past?

Number one, I'm acknowledging that I've got some challenges in my present, and they derive from my past.

I'm understanding the trauma affects on my brain and how it changed my behavior.

It changed my perspective.

I am aware that I am downtrodden and I am battered and broken and weary and tired.

And I'm stuck in a place of autopilot where I don't even know what tomorrow looks like.

I'm not even free enough to dream about the future because I am so broken from my past.

I understand what happened to me and I cannot change it.

But I can't change how I feel about it.

I can't choose to forgive.

I can't choose to let go.

I can't choose to believe.

I can choose to dream.

This is a charge to you in this moment to let it go.

You got to let it go.

This is more than an invitation to the future.

This is a command to leave your past behind. Come on, this is your time to release. This is your time to release to let it go. And the only way you're going to release is if you forgive them for the things that were done to you. The people who were present for a moment but then left you for dead. The people who bullied you, who hurt you, who caused you to go into a state of depression and anxiety and defeat, who opened up doors to insecurity.

I need to acknowledge what happened to me. I need to acknowledge what they did. How they stepped and stomped on the hope that was in me,

how they lied, how they let me down, how now I've got diminished expectations, but now I'm going to release it.

If I want to be free in my present and in my future. I gotta let it go.

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