Daily Meditation for August 17

My softness has survived everything meant to harden me.

REFLECTION

Your softness is not evidence that life spared you hardship. It is evidence that hardship did not take everything from you. Today is an invitation to honor the parts of yourself that have remained open-hearted.

WRITE

Reflect on a quality within yourself that has endured through difficult seasons.

How has it survived?

CREATE

Create a visual representation of enduring softness. What does it look like to you?

LISTEN

Choose a song that resonates with today's meditation.

As you listen, notice what emotions, memories, or reflections arise.

SHARE

If you would like to participate, share a reflection, writing, photograph, playlist, or artwork inspired by today's meditation.

What part of your heart has survived everything that might have hardened it?