Too hard.
Too often.
Too relentlessly.
We work overtime to prove our worth — to be enough, to be chosen, to be seen.
We bend, perform, over-give, over-extend…
not because we lack value
but because somewhere along the journey
we stopped believing our value could simply exist.
But here’s the truth that changes everything:
🌿 You were never created to be earned.
Your worth does not increase with effort
and your right to take up space is not negotiable.
Sometimes, the deepest growth isn’t in trying harder —
but in releasing the parts of us that only exist to survive.
The part that hustles for love…
The part that fears being forgotten…
The part that anxiously scans for signs of rejection…
The part that believes we must perform to belong…
Those are not who we are —
those are adaptive strategies we used when love, safety, or trust were scarce.
And here is where transformation begins:
Not by ignoring those parts.
Not by fighting those parts.
But by intergrating them with gratitude —
because their work is done.
You are safe now.
You are seen now.
You are allowed to rest now.
🌟 The healed version of you doesn’t try — she chooses.
She doesn’t chase — she attracts.
She doesn’t prove — she embodies.
This is the quiet power of emotional fitness:
learning to stop doing what was once required to survive
so you can start being who you were always meant to be.
So if you find yourself trying too hard today…
Pause.
Breathe.
Remember:
You don’t have to fight for a place
in a world you were created to shape.
🤍 Sometimes, we try too much —
because we forget how powerful we already are.
— Dr. Jennifer Chewe ✨