Independence Day 🛣️

✍️ WTF Is Independence?™

🫁 The deeper question isn’t: “Am I performing?”

It’s: “Do I feel free inside this identity?”
Do I have space to be unsure, soft, sad, or raw — even here?

Sacred Self-Confrontation™ is what happens when the mirror won’t lie anymore. I’ve built a strong identity. Independent. Capable. Spiritually aware. A helper. A truth-speaker. Someone others trust for guidance. That’s real.

But here’s what else is true: I’ve also performed.

I didn’t mean to. But sometimes I still feel like I’m proving something. Not just to others, but to myself.

“I’m not broken.”
“I’m better than what happened to me.”
“Look how far I’ve come.”

And maybe that’s where the false independence lives. Not in the strength itself — but in needing it to be the only part of me that gets seen.

I don’t throw things anymore. I don’t disappear into addictions. But sometimes I disappear into being “fine.”

There’s a version of me that gets high off internal gold stars. “You’re doing your best.” But the part of me that knows? She’s not convinced. Not always. Not when I’m still avoiding softness. Not when I can’t say “I need help” without shame.

Maybe I’ve been hijacked by a lookalike — a false independence that wears all the right outfits, says all the right things, but doesn’t actually feel free.

And I’m not here to tear it all down. Just to ask: Is this still me? Or is it just the safest script I know how to follow?

Healing isn’t always loud. Sometimes it’s a quiet whisper: “I don’t want to carry this alone anymore.”

❓ If No One Ever Said “WOW” After You Did What You Did… Would You Still Have Done It?

That’s the real independence. When no applause is needed. When no one’s watching. When it’s just you… choosing you.

👇🏽 Read more about the process behind this post:

💡 Read: Diana In Da House “Wounded and Working It Out”™

Soul-Up™
Because Your Spirit Didn’t Come Here to Settle.