Asking for What You Want Isn’t Selfish—It’s Sacred

There's no shame in creating what you want and asking for what you want. There's this misguided patriarchal message that we have to stay, or we have to do this, or we have to do that. You're the only person in the world that knows your story. You're the only person in the world that knows what's right for you. Listen to that little whisper until it becomes a really loud voice that you can say, no, which is a complete sentence, and yes, which is a complete sentence, right? And really putting those two together to create, um, I call it like a sacred ritual. There are things that I do every day, 2 to 3, that make me feel good about being me. And also, if I'm like not feeling good, I can go back to that practice, you know, whether it's meditation. It's always nature, touching trees for me in some way, right?