Song of reference: See Me Now- Kanye West ( Beyonce, Charlie Wilson & Big Sean) 

If I have learned anything from Kanye West it is that in order to live my best life I will need to be unafraid in who I want to be and live without looking to others for validation...

Thus I am proclaiming my 23rd year of life my Ye Year. A year where I will unapologetically be the woman I was born to be and live without permission.

For most of my life I’ve worried about how others felt about my choices. What I was wearing, how I spoke, who I chose as friends. I always allowed everyone else to have a hand in defining who I was even more than I defined myself. It wasn’t until this past year that I finally broke free from those chains and really took charge of who I wanted to be in life. It was an ugly storm that I went through but the beauty and rebirth that has come out of it has left me in a state of pure bliss.

I am the happiest I’ve ever been in a long time and it took a year of sifting through those items I had hanging in the back of my closet or that were just sitting around taking up space in my life and finally deciding it was time for them to go. Both literally and figuratively, during the 22nd year of my Iife I got rid of whatever it was that was holding me back from growing. Whether it was clothing, keepsakes, gifts, people, negative feelings, bad thoughts, it all had to go because the woman I am becoming no longer had space for it.

~XOXO Lyric