Connection over Comparison

You look all around and see wealth, happier families, shiny versions of who you wish to be
When compared, your life seems small and less important

But that’s jut Comparison’s loud voice leading you away from right here

Right here, Connection invites
Talking with your kids
Organizing with a friend
Choosing clothes that you feel good in, even when no one is present to approve

Connecting to yourself suffocates Comparison
Breathes out all air polluting your brave growth
Lying that to fit in you must be different than who you are becoming

Connect. Connect. Connect, dear one

Listen to your body
Notice your needs
Claim your boundaries
Grieve that while you grow, you also let go of control
Tidy outcomes
Familiar rhythms

But, oh, how free to walk in and say,
’That dress is for me.
And rather than fitting in, this Connection way fits me!’

BJP