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I thought I was broken.
I really did.

I thought something was wrong with me, 
because no matter how much I changed…

the results kept staying the same.

New place.
New life.
New relationship.

Same ending.

And I remember sitting there like…

what is it?
what am I not seeing?

And then it hit me.

I wasn’t broken.

I was just…
scattered, repeating the same patterns I learned my whole life.

Unknowingly leaving pieces of my heart... everywhere.

In people.
In homes.

In versions of my life that I
never went back for.

what was it?
what am I not seeing?

And then it hit me.

So Spirit sat me down and said,

I love you
but you can't get different results until you
pick up the the pieces of your heart

You need to go back and get yourself.

And I was like…
okay…

where do we even start?

So I started where I began.

New York. 
The house I lived in until I was seven.

I stood in front of it…

said a prayer…

left a little offering… 
and told her,

you did so good - you can come home now.

And I brought her back into my heart.

Then the Philippines.

Eight-year-old me…
confused, homesick,
missing my dad every single day.

I picked her up too.

Then Los Angeles.

Every house.
Every street.
Every school.

Every version of me that lived there.
I went back to all of them.

And every time, I said the same thing:
you don’t have to stay here anymore.
you get to come with me.

Piece by piece… version by version…
I gathered myself back.

And somewhere along the way, something shifted.
The cracks in my heart started filling in, like gold.

My light came back.
My joy came back.

I came back.
And realized…

It was never about what happened to me.
It was about whether I was willing to come back for myself.

This is The Return.

Not to a place.
Not to a person.
But to you.

To every version of you that’s still waiting to be seen…
to be held… to be brought home.

If you’ve ever felt like pieces of you are missing,
I promise you…
they’re not gone.

They’re just waiting.

So go back and get you, boo.
I’ll meet you there.

With all my hearts ♥️,
Rheena Mae