Well, hello there, it's Morgan Harbor Nichols, and I'm so grateful you're here to join me on this Tuesday.

Much like the questions I pose at the end of each episode, this week's episodes are for reflection,

and reflection by definition is to give serious thought or consideration. Every day this week,

you will hear moments from previous episodes

that I hope help you to find space and time throughout your day for positive thoughts as we

reflect together. And now on to today's episode. Today's piece is called Quiet Strength is Still Strength.

Here's to the quietly strong.

Here's to the one who has been working through things that you don't even have words for.

Even here, you are worthy of long, slow, deep breaths. Even while you are

currently working through all of this. Here's to the one who is realizing that sometimes singing

is a sign of strength, sometimes letting go is a sign of strength.

And your strength does not have to look like anyone else's in order for you to be strong.

Sometimes strength comes with a power pose, but maybe many other times it's just the exhale you take at the end of a

memory of something your grandmother used to say. It's realizing that even through all of the

anxiousness, here you are working through it anyway. Sometimes strength is tear streaming down your face as you breathe out the words

it is well. Strength is knowing that you're not weak if strength looks different day by day,

hour by hour even. Let this be the season of your life where you learn to embrace the wholeness of what strength

looks like. Let this be the time of your life where you chose to think nothing less of the slower

days, where you chose to think nothing less of the evenings where you just needed a moment to sit and process things.

Let this be a time of your life where you don't think any less of yourself when you feel weak.

And may you travel through these next few weeks remembering that even when you have perfected that smile that

makes it seem like everything is okay now, you were never meant to carry all of this on your own.

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