Shelly White | Embodied Truth

The bravest things you’ve ever done are the chicest.

Because reconnecting with God after religious trauma is chic.

Telling the truth you were taught to swallow is chic.

Coming home to the body they told you to fear is chic.

Setting the boundary that costs you people is chic.

Still believing your body is capable of healing when everything within you feels like it is collapsing is chic.

And none of it looked glamorous while you were doing it.

It looked like crawling out of hell. Like grief. Like saying the scary thing with a shaking voice.

Like sleepless nights, red eyes, and a tear-stained face.

Like loss. But also like gain.

But that quiet, unglamorous bravery, the kind no one claps for — is the most chic thing there is.

So here’s to us. And here’s to you.

For turning what could’ve destroyed you into light.

For untangling the God you love from everything that hurt you.

For becoming yourself anyway.

Comment your own “how chic of you” and tell me the brave thing you’re giving yourself credit for today 💅🏼