Waking Up Free

Waking Up Free Michelle Gutierrez ME.d Holistic CTRC-S Trauma Recovery Coaching

https://www.facebook.com/share/1BdAxFVmQU/
12/09/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/1BdAxFVmQU/

Some chapters are meant to hold you for a while, not a lifetime. Some people enter your world to awaken a truth, not to stay forever. And some experiences arrive only to shape you in ways you could not have grown on your own. The ache comes when you try to cling to what was only meant to guide you for a moment. The freedom comes when you allow the lesson to stand on its own without demanding more from what has already given you all it can.

There is a quiet strength in accepting that certain doors close because you have outgrown what is on the other side. There is wisdom in understanding that the purpose of an experience can be complete even if it did not end the way you hoped. Your life is not defined by what lasted. It is defined by what transformed you. You can honor the memory without keeping yourself tethered to it. You can keep the lesson and release the story.

Let the lesson be enough. Let it be the thing that carried you forward. Let it be the reason you step into a future that finally aligns with who you are becoming.

https://www.facebook.com/share/14XsCS5wotk/
12/09/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/14XsCS5wotk/

If today feels heavy, remember… nothing stays the same forever.
Change is always moving, and you still have agency in where you take your next step.
One moment, one choice at a time. ❤️‍🩹

🪶

https://www.facebook.com/share/1ADZ8miv4n/
12/09/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/1ADZ8miv4n/

Resilience is not the hard shell you grow to protect yourself. It is the soft courage that rises in you after life has disappointed you, after love has wounded you, after hope has been stretched thin. True resilience is the gentle decision to stay open when it would be so much easier to close. It is choosing to believe in connection even when your heart remembers what it felt like to break. It is letting yourself feel deeply without letting pain turn you into someone you are not.

Strength is not found in never falling apart. It is found in the way you gather yourself with compassion, the way you keep loving with wisdom, the way you trust that your softness is not a weakness but a gift. Every time you choose healing over bitterness and openness over fear, you prove that resilience is not about becoming tougher. It is about becoming truer.

Your heart is still open. That is resilience.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1AH7gXgSJh/
12/09/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/1AH7gXgSJh/

Quiet confidence is the kind that grows in the dark long before anyone ever sees the light. It is shaped in the moments when you choose to trust yourself even while your voice is shaking. It is built each time you show up for your own life without needing applause, validation, or an audience to make your choices feel real. Quiet confidence is knowing you can stand on your own feet, make your own decisions, and guide your own heart even when no one is clapping for you.

It is the soft power that comes from keeping the promises you make to yourself. From learning to rely on your inner wisdom more than external noise. From discovering that the strength you were searching for has been forming inside you through every challenge you faced alone. This confidence is not loud because it doesn’t need to be. It is steady. It is grounded. It is yours.

And the more you trust yourself in the unseen moments, the more unstoppable you become in the ones the world finally notices.

https://www.facebook.com/share/17L6QUwHXu/
12/09/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/17L6QUwHXu/

You are not walking this journey alone. When your heart softens into trust, life quietly rearranges itself for your highest good ~ Trust that God, the universe, the divine intelligence that shapes every sunrise and every heartbeat, is also taking care of you

🟫🟤🤎🟤🟫

the journey guidance

Inevitably someone will say ' but you don't know what this person has done.'Boundaries, yes.Vilify or dehumanize someone...
12/09/2025

Inevitably someone will say ' but you don't know what this person has done.'

Boundaries, yes.
Vilify or dehumanize someone, no.

It's so easy to label someone as 'bad' it takes way more effort to ask why?

I struggle with this in cases of injustice.

When someone does something that I see as unfair, hurting others I get angry.

This does not mean ignoring bad behavior or being indifferent.

When I can explore why they are the way they are, with empathy, it is a catalyst for the next right action.

Michelle
©Wakingupfree


Love your people. Love them when they do what they say they will. Love them when they are hard to love. Michelle ©Waking...
12/09/2025

Love your people.

Love them when they do what they say they will.

Love them when they are hard to love.


Michelle
©Wakingupfree


Address

San Antonio, TX

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Waking Up Free posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Practice

Send a message to Waking Up Free:

Share

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn
Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share via Email
Share on WhatsApp Share on Instagram Share on Telegram