Loving Through: Finding your Tribe

You can be in a room filled with people you call friends, but still feel completely alone. Alone in the way that you can’t be who you truly are, that you conform to the way everyone else thinks and feels, but it is all the same as you are still alone, but filled with people who don’t know who you truly are.

I have always told my girls you really only need one good friend who you can be yourself with. Who you can trust, laugh, cry, dream and say how you feel. Quantity does not matter especially when you get older, but society has made our younger years a popularity contest and that takes us sometime to undo and figure out and sometimes people never do.

You can only grow, challenge yourself and learn when you surround yourself with people who allow you to do just that. We need to have that space where we are unafraid to BE who we are and know that we are loved and cared for no matter what.

The hard part is letting go when our tribe may not be what we need anymore, that we have grown and learned all we can from them. This is the space where we need to dive into love, being grateful for all that we have received and learned. Nothing is about us, but it is about the growth and knowing not everyone is meant to stay on our journey or in our tribe.

I believe we are truly blessed when we have a tribe that remains with us throughout our lives, even if it is just one person. The greatest gift we can give to ourself is to be walking our path that is meant for us, with the people we are meant to walk with. XO-Rach