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Once upon a time, you were a little girl…
Life was simple and carefree…
You dreamed big dreams without even knowing they were big…
And you did the things you did because you felt like it…
You weren’t afraid to try new things…
because everything was new…
You didn’t worry about what other people thought…
Or what they said…
You were YOU because you didn’t know how to be anyone else.
Are you starting to remember?
Can you start to feel her again…even just a little?
Cause guess what, sweet girl…
Will you remember her?
Please find her again…then listen to her.
She is so wise….
When you find her remember:
She has a tender heart.
Speak kindly to her.
Make sure she knows that mistakes are okay.
Be patient with her as she learns and grows.
Run through the flowers with her,
play make-believe, dream big dreams,
believe in goodness,
find joy in everything around you,
make life simple the way she liked it.
It might take time…but find her….she is you…
…the real you.
xoxo
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that is the most beautiful thing I have ever read, Kallie…….and the photos…..WOW.. YOU WOW ME!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!
just what I needed! Lovely message, brought tears to my eyes…
I loved reading this post. Yes, I was a little girl and I raised 4 girls who so far have provided the world with 3 more for me to love and encourage. So precious!
Oh thank you-I have gotten a little lost again and you reminded me that I need to play today.
I once had a therapist suggest that I keep close at hand a photo of myself as a smiling baby. (or any smiling baby, really). This was for all the reasons you’ve stated (so well) here, that we need to always remember that pure, unADULTerated joy that we still have within!!
I was going to cancel my playdate today – all the grown up things on my to do list were heavy on my mind. Too bad! I’m playing today!!
Love you brave girls so much for taking good care of the rest of us!!
inspires me to go find an old picture of me from years ago. i am going to frame it and keep it on my desk.
thank you for this message today!
xo
Love This So Much! Thank You Kallie! I look @ my 7 year old daughter & want to be just like her. I am always worried I am going to mess her up. I totally needed to hear/see this! You are Amazing & I Love you so very much! xoxoxo
This is beautiful and so very, very true. I love the affirmation of who I really am, because I have had to go back and find that girl and start over. It’s an adventure I wouldn’t have missed for anything. Thank you so much for this.
Thank you Kallie…I see HER!
Thank you, Kallie… Love this message.
This made me so sad that I lost that feeling and on the other hand, happy that I can get it back. Every year I try to make a special Christmas present for each of my siblings. I am going to make a book with their photos for my 5 sisters of each one of them with your words – thank you!
I needed this today. Thank you.
LOVE!
Your words are poetry and art and I just love taking time out of a crazy day to read them.
I love this…. thank you so much, I needed this.
tears. tears. tears. THANK YOU!
Beautiful truth filled words. Wonderful photos too! We so forget that sweet young brave girl. So nice to look back and find her and invite her to come along on the journey. Thank you for reminding me once again. ox
This is awesome! My problem is that I can’t remember when or if I was ever like this. But this is what I want to get back to. If I only knew where to start?
Thank you for the inspiration.
Absolutely beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
Simply beautiful. Thank you!
I love Brave Girls !!!
Simply one of the most beautiful things I have ever read. Every woman should read this, and pay attention, because it speaks to the little girl inside every one of us. Thank you so much for this.
oh my gawd…i LOVE this post. thank you so much for this. i’ve been looking for that little girl for a while now, and i’m getting reacquainted…
I just got in touch with my “inner girl”! On Sunday I bought a “Drowsy” doll off of eBay and I just got her today! The scar in my little girl heart was healed bc she was one of my favorite dolls and I had lost her! Was it crazy to whisper to my dolly how glad I was that she is mine again?!
This was beautiful and a little sad for me. I don’t remember being like that. My “little girl” was always searching for someone to listen to her dreams and desires. She didn’t have the self-esteem to be brave and confident. But I have grown and the adult me knows how fragile she is and we are growing together. I will listen to her like she needed back then.
Thank you ladies for continuing to wrap me with your blankets of comfort and inspiration.
beautifully stated and beautifully presented, Kallie! my inner little girl thanks you for reminding me to take good care of her!
Cindy I feel the same way as you! I didn’t have a happy childhood, but we CAN HAVE A GREAT LIFE NOW, IT IS OUR RIGHT!!!. Thank you Brave Girls!!!.
I needed this SO much right now. Here I am in my mid thirties, still trying to figure out what other people want me to be “when I grow up”.
My path is different than I thought it would be, but I love it & would change very little if ever given the chance.
THANK YOU!!!
This is just beautiful!
You made me cry… no only remembering my childhood, but also my teenage daughter who forgets who she was once, and for my young daughters who relish themselves fully. Thank you for the happy tears.
this is so inspiring post. I loved it, it brought tears to my eyes when I saw the pictures and the written things above them.
so true, so fantastic.
incredible good done job!
Beautiful post…but what about those of us who never got to be that little girl..never felt that freedom.
I love this…it moved me.. I think this is a great message for every woman to read!
I know I am on a journey to be ME ..uniquely me..:) lol
We spend so much of our lives fitting someone else’s image of who we are…it’s time to listen quietly…hear that little girl who loves to create..not sit behind a desk staring at a computer all day..to listen to what really brings us joy…
LoVE THis MEssage!
Beautifuly said.
So beautiful, I’m so glad I found this tonight. Thank you so much!
I believe that what is needed shows up at the right moment. so to all you girls out there like me, accepting to accept me for me, Love you all even if I’ll never know you, even if we never ever meet. Our laughter and joy mingles, in the prayers of all little girls young and not so young knowing deep down inside our DREAMS STILL LIVE ON, AND IF WE HOLD ON TO THAT LITTLE angle inside, we all will allow ourselves to truly live and fly.
Aloha & Mahalo
PK
That made me cry…which means I need some SERIOUS work down that road….
Wonderful idea…I am going to find a picture of me as a little girl to keep available!!
So beautiful Kallie! Both the words and the photos touched my heart. Thanks for sharing them with us!
Great post! But like Veronica, I never got to be a little girl. How do you learn to be like that?
LOVE.
EVERY IMAGE … EVERY WORD … EVERY REMINDER.
THANK YOU.
OXOX
Tears. Beautiful. I was one of those little girls who lost her childhood when she was 8. If I reach way way back into the depths, I can remember glimmers of sunshine, playing teacher and dolls happily. It’s a stretch into the past that is painful. Need to overlook the ashes, the hurts, and see the glimmers of sunlight and rainbows and flowers of those early years. Thank you for this.
This is thee most BEAUTIFUL truth ever…. Kallie you rock my heart and remind me to smile big and sparkle and kick up my heels in joy!
Hi Joesette (and Veronica and others who are in the same place)….if you didn’t have the blissful, joyful childhood that every little girl (and boy) deserves, then I think it’s even more important for you to find the little girl inside you – find her and teach her the truth. Show her how to play, teach her that bad things should never have happened to her, that she should have had better, that none of the bad things that happened to her were her fault. Tell her how beautiful and loved and precious and cherished and pure she is. Find her, love her, hug her, let her play, let her be carefree. Teach her the truth. Show her how very very loved she is.
Hope that helps…
xoxo, Kallie
Thank you, Kallie! This is so simply beautiful. I have tried so hard to hold onto the little girl inside and not lose her, despite what the world has said. Now that I have two little nieces, I am able to recapture it even more when I am with them. I am trying to help them to never lose their “little girlness” either. I know you are doing the same with your beautiful daughters. It’s never too early to be a Brave Girl, is it?
Thank you for this, and for your followup message, kallie . . . This is indeed a time of rebirth for me . . a fresh opportunity to find and live out my dear sweet child-of-God-ness.
Kallie…
you are so loved…and that little girl with her truth and beauty and smiles and laughter…
and her imagination and fascination of all things new…
and her determination…
and her fearsomeness…
you are so loved…
because that girl is you Kallie!
I miss you and I send you love …
Annie <3
This left me speechless, because it’s just. so. true. <3
thank you. *hugs* (i think i’ve needed someone to say that for a very….very, long time.)