Self-Love

by Valerie Denay Staton Self-love is recognizing your value. Self-love is knowing your worth. It is understanding your potential. It is believing that you are enough. It grows each time you choose restover running on empty, truth over pretending, kindness over criticism. It blooms when you see yourself clearlynot perfect, but beautifully human,learning, trying, becoming.Continue reading “Self-Love”

The Shape of Us

by Valerie Denay Staton I never met you before and yet I found you in the spaces I did not know were void. The rooms inside me were unlit. Untouched. As quiet as forgotten prayers. You did not knock, nor did you speak. You simply arrived – and everything I’d learned to live without tookContinue reading “The Shape of Us”