Shannii Maree – Strong Without Realising
Life through the eyes of a woman who had no idea how strong she was becoming
No matter what I challenge this man with he always steps up to it. I don’t know or respect another man more deeply than I do him. I married him for a reason. Not that I knew it back then. He willingly owns every part of himself even when his ego doesn’t want him to.
Do you truly understand what it means to say I Love You? Most people confuse need and want with Love. So they don’t really understand what it means to truly love someone. To truly love someone means to allow them to be fully free and allow yourself to be fully free. How many of us
The sound came She roared She felt everything that had been holding her back She screamed for the times she felt judged She screamed for the times others didn’t feel her Her soul screamed for journeys past Bile rose Bile escaped She heaved with all her might She felt the arms of support engulf her
Oh to be free, she thought. Like the wind blowing through the trees Or the ocean rolling it’s waves onto the shore. This cage feels dense Heavy and unshakeable Can she break free? Is the cage within her mind able to be broken? Choose, they say, You just have to choose So she chooses Yet
She smiles Yet it doesn’t reach her eyes The depth of her pain Kept locked away inside She yearns to reach out And express the whirlwind within Yet her past torments her Reminders crawling on her skin Will she? Won’t she? Or will she close up and flee? Past patterns repeating Until one day she
For so long I wondered why people lied to me or pulled away. I have always felt I’ve been such an understanding person and I love the ones I love so much there was literally no reason to be ashamed of telling me anything. If you tell me you want something for your life then
I have awoken feeling vulnerable and tender. Last night I released something during a beautiful cacao and conscious clubbing celebration. My entire body felt it and feels tender today and I honour that. And also I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve said “I just fucking love my life so much” To either myself
Me and this beautiful human I get to call my husband, we got together as what may as well have been still babies. I was 24 and he was 20. I was divorced with two kids. He had just got out of his 2 year first relationship with his gf. Together we have made every
I have reached a stage in my parenting journey that no one ever talks about. No one writes books saying this is how it’s done for this stage. Pregnancy, babies, toddlers, children, even teens are written about. But no one talks about the transition from being the parent raising a child to being a parent
The last piece of my puzzle, of this particular journey, fell into place. I never realized how much I wanted to be touched by people now. I walked around giving touch to people and feeling really fucking happy. I was in my natural state. The one I’ve come to love and adore. And I felt
