What it really takes

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I often reflect about my life so I understand the past, present, and future better. I'm a 42 year old proud transgender woman who has gone to hell and back. I've been dirt broke, I've lost more friends then I've gained, I live in a country that doesn't think i even exist.

However admist all of that I have achieved many wonderful and beautiful things. I'm a integration engineer in a fortune 500 company as a true leader as a woman constantly recognized for my efforts, I have lost over 130 lbs and fundamentally had to overcome bad eating habits, bad mental habits, and shifted my entire emotional framework inside myself to something that finally worked for me.

You have to truly commit to the notion that everyday you have been given a chance to create a better version of yourself.

You have to iterate through your thoughts and do the hard work of figuring out who the fuck you are, what are you passionate about, and what do you really want from this existence?

Not all days will be sunshine and rainbows [and you know how much i love rainbows 😉] you will cry yourself to sleep alone. This however conceptually is teaching you an important lesson you may not see at first. That you need to feel the actual intensity of it all so you can learn how to overcome it or deal with future situations equally intense. My transition made me stronger physically as well as emotionally. It gave me the gift of knowing you aren't put on this floating rock to simply please or appease others. That the joy you share or give to others is fundamentally a output from you. It literally all starts with yourself.

It takes a entirely different level of thinking that is hard to put into words.

Don't ever stop fighting for that better version of you. ❤️💋

-Juno 🌹