What are you listening to these days?

No, I don’t mean your playlist. I mean that story you’re hearing.

There’s always a story we’re hearing.

One we’re believing, buying right into, nodding our heads up and down and saying yes – we’re agreeing with that one – that one sounds about right.

There’s always a story that we’re listening to, buying into, believing. Society, the world, social media, opinions sprinkled onto our days and our lives and some of them aren’t true, you know.

We see perfect posts and think, well, yeah…I’m not that.

We see perfect outfits and think about our own closets stuffed full of mismatched this-and-that and yeah, we think it again…I’m not that.

We see perfect pictures and even though we know there’s all sorts of stuff to be done with pixels these days, we sort of take it as we see it and what we see is…we are not that.

Glossy perfection on every magazine in every rack. Perfect posts about perfect vacations and perfect parties and perfect lives. The story’s pretty clear, and even if we sort of know that we’re not getting the whole story we sort of buy into it anyway and start believing we’re just not that.

We’re just not enough.

Not thin enough.

Not rich enough.

Not talented enough.

Not coiffed enough.

Not perfect enough.

Yeah, just basically not enough.

But this is just a story. This is not the real truth. It never was and it never will be, no matter what app you’re scrolling through.

The real story, the true story, is that you are enough and more than enough, just as you are. No matter what’s on your playlist, in your closet, or on your feed.

You’re more than enough, just as you are.

You’re more than beautiful, just as you are.

You’re more than worthy, just as you are.

Because you are.

The chance of you? 1 in 10 ^2,685,000.

More than enough, simply because you are.

I just wanted to let you know, you know? Just in case it hasn’t been part of the story you’ve been hearing lately.

~xo,
LuAnne

{a re-edited post from the archives}