It's OK To Not Be OK

I decided today it’s okay for me to say I’m not okay.

Saying that out loud helped more than I expected it to.

Because I’m a fixer. A problem solver. When I’m not okay, my reflex is to do something —

journal it out, think it through, make a plan, find the lesson, stay productive, stay moving. If I can’t fix what I’m not okay about, I try to make myself okay with it.

And sometimes that helps.

But sometimes all that “helping” is just another way of avoiding the truth:

I’m not okay right now.

So today I tried something different.

I let myself be not okay… for a moment.

Not forever. Not as an identity. Not as a dramatic statement.

Just as an honest one.

Because being “okay” isn’t the price of being worthy.

And strength isn’t pretending you don’t feel what you feel.

If you’re not okay lately, I want you to hear this clearly:

You’re not broken. You’re human.

It makes sense.

Whatever you’re carrying… it makes sense.

And you’re allowed to stop trying to outrun it for one minute.

You’re allowed to tell the truth without rushing to make it prettier.

You’re allowed to take the mask off and breathe.

Sometimes the most healing thing you can do isn’t fixing.

It’s permission.

Permission to feel it.

Permission to pause.

Permission to be a person, not a performance.

If you need a simple sentence to start with, here it is:

“I’m not okay today… and that’s allowed.”

Just for today. Just for this moment.

Let that be enough.