We often seek recognition from others.
Through tokens of visibility, validation, appreciation, and trust.
It’s natural, and it matters.

Yet this reaches beyond roles and performance.
True recognition lives inside.

It is meeting yourself fully,
in all that has been carried with both strength and vulnerability,
in all that you’ve lived,
and how it has shaped you
into all that you are.

This inner recognition gently shifts us
from the need to be seen by others,
to honoring who we truly, fully, are.

We realize it was always about recognizing ourselves.

Self-recognition releases the expectations we place on others,
restoring recognition as an unbounded gift
–  a free exchange of appreciation, respect, and gratitude.

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