A letter from Dec 03, 2025

Dear Elizabeth, This past April 2025, you were diagnosed with autism, PMDD, social anxiety, and depression in remission all at the same time at 32 years old. Then a few months later with HPV. You started therapy in April. You've learned to trust yourself, your intuition, and your ability to overcome hardships in this life. You've known you were different for most of your life. You rose to the desire of growing in all areas of your life as soon as you were given the financial resources, especially the emotional intelligence side. You have learned you have shown up for others the way no-one showed up for you in your life to feel accepted, loved, and useful emotionally. Now, you're unlearning how to truly love yourself simply for existing and exploring new adventures on your own. You learned how to no longer accept men and people in your life who are unable to choose and do that work for themselves. You learned that you've listened, empathized, and changed behavior as a priority for others in your life whom you love. This realization has been the most painful because some of those people have not chosen you and your emotional needs when you've expressed them. You clearly see the unseen emotional labor that some people do to keep the world running at their expense. You're learning to have stronger boundaries and accept reality simply for what it is. Not judging it so much anymore. Observing your emotions. Analyzing them. Feeling all of the emotions with no vices. Then building a road-map for life's unpredictable challenges. You're no longer afraid of being so far away from your mom as she gets older. You're slowly becoming unafraid of what life might look like as the youngest only daughter watching her family age and drift into the natural inevitable life stage of *****. You’re still trying to find your life’s purpose, if a tribe is your calling in this life, your gifts, your shortcomings. You’re no longer afraid of ***** because you came close to touching it this year but not indulging in the thoughts that the universe would be better without you. The truth is, you survived ***** a birth and that was the closest you truly came to touch *****. You’re proud of not blaming the world for your circumstances since you were a child, even when it was the easiest thing to do. For the feedback of other important people in your life. For prioritizing growth. For holding yourself accountable when no-one is looking. For choosing to try different products at the grocery store habitually. For being a futurist. For believing in emotions before logic more than you can count. For this reason, you are the most beautiful person you’ve ever met and many others as well. No matter what happens this next year, please never forget your impact of being YOU on this Earth. You are the person you’ve been looking for your whole life and it was right in-front of you the whole time. That joke and reality of life will never cease to amaze you. You never needed a man or anyone else to discover that you're everything you’ve ever needed and will need. After living a life of poverty, pain, suffering, neglect, and turmoil….you found it for yourself. Happy Earth Day. Love, Elizabeth