June doesn’t require you to carry everything that May handed you. Some things were meant to help you survive a difficult season, not stay with you forever. As you step into a new month, give yourself permission to travel lighter. Not everything deserves a place in the chapter ahead.

Things To Leave Behind As You Walk Into June:

• the version of yourself who was just trying to survive May
• the conversations you kept replaying when you should’ve been sleeping

the heaviness that got you through last month but doesn’t need to come with you

– Jacqueline Whitney

• the grief that’s been sitting in your chest since before the month started
• the hope that they’d show up differently this time
• the story that says you’re behind
• the apology you’ve been rehearsing for simply taking up space
• the anxiety about things that haven’t happened yet
• the relationships you’ve been holding together by yourself

• the dream you talked yourself out of when no one was looking
• the comparison that’s been stealing your peace
• the heaviness that got you through last month but doesn’t need to come with you
• the weight you carried in silence because you didn’t know where else to put it

Jacqueline Whitney is the author Held: A 50 Day Devotional For Parents and All That You Deserve.