02/11/2026
You don’t have to let go before you’re ready.
You don’t have to move on and feel anything other than what’s present for you now.
It’s ok to hold on until you’re ready. Take your time.
We’re a culture that rushes to the finish line and puts a timestamp on grief.
Make space for your anger, your rage, your sadness.
There are no goals to achieve or milestones to reach in the process of letting go.
The only requirement is that you feel to the depths of your being.
That you search in a way that your soul feels like searching, that you seek in whatever way you need to seek.
And that you rest until your heart and body no longer require the quiet winter that grief brings.
Don’t listen to the New Age idealists who tell you that your “lower vibration” emotions are creating your reality, that you only need to think positive, that you just have to “let go”.
Hold on.
Hold on and let yourself have this experience.
Let go slowly, let go with intention, let go with care.
Letting go is a ceremony. It is a release of lost hopes, dreams, love, and life.
This cannot be rushed.
Bring reverence to your process. Let go slowly.
Peace will come.
~Sheleana Aiyana~
Photo: This image is a painting titled "Royaume de ma paix" by artist Ketfa Laure.
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