This short meditation is a gentle pause for the moments when you’re close to breaking. It offers a few minutes of calm — not to fix or push, but to breathe and rest.
Here, you can lay down the weight you’ve been carrying. You can stop holding yourself together and simply exist as you are. No demands. No expectations. Just a soft reminder: you are still enough.
Even in exhaustion, even when you have nothing left to give — you are allowed to rest. And you are whole.
You can read it here in your own rhythm, or listen to it on Youtube (3:46 minutes).
You Don’t Have To Be Strong Right Now
A short pause for the moments when even breathing feels heavy.
Welcome, my dear.
Take a breath.
Let your body land where it is.
No performance. No fixing. Just being.
The world can keep spinning for a while.
Right now, your only task is to pause.
Breathe in softness.
Breathe out pressure.
Breathe in stillness.
Breathe out resistance.
You may feel like you have nothing left to give —
as if the weight has pressed too long on the same places.
That’s not weakness.
That’s your body asking for mercy.
It’s okay if you’re too tired to be hopeful.
It’s okay if you don’t know how to rest yet.
You are learning a new rhythm —
one that begins not with action, but with exhale.
So breathe again, slowly.
Let each breath whisper:
I can stop.
I can rest.
I am still enough.
You are not falling apart, my dear.
You are softening into truth.
Even here, close to breaking, you are whole.
Let that knowing settle.
Let your shoulders drop, your jaw loosen.
You don’t need to be stronger.
You just need to be here.
Breathe in peace.
Breathe out survival.
Breathe in permission.
Breathe out guilt.
You are resting.
You are safe.
And even now — you are enough.
Be beautifully, irrevocably you, my dear.
Listen to this Meditation Bite on YouTube: You Don’t Have To Be Strong Right Now (3:46 minutes)
You can find more rest here: Rest & Renewal