I, Mik, am here because I have spent most of my life performing a version of myself that wasn't fully me. The pain is real and it is old. The hope is that it doesn't have to stay this way.
I commit to showing up honestly. Not to the performance of this process, but to the process itself. Even when honest looks like sitting with frustration, unable to speak, noticing I am far from the calm I thought I had. Especially then.
When it gets hard - and I know it will, because it already has - I will name the wall instead of fighting it. I will take a breath and return to my authentic self.
I understand that transformation is not linear. I will fall. What matters is that I rise again.