Life Tests, You Rise.

Hey babe 🖤

Do you ever scroll through your feed and wonder why everyone else’s life looks so effortless? Like they have it together while you’re spiraling at 2 a.m., crying over things you didn’t even know you were crying about? Stop comparing. Stop apologizing for being loud, messy, emotional, chaotic. Life isn’t pretty. It’s raw, unfiltered, and it’s meant to test you.

The people you look at and think “Wow, they have it all” are usually just hiding their chaos behind filters, smiles, and captions. And honestly? That’s fine. You don’t have to hide your mess. Your power is in your mess.

🔥 The Truth About Life

1. Life will test you.
It’s going to push you to the edge, babe. Your friends will disappoint, love will betray, your career will stall, and your plans will crumble. Life isn’t fair, but you know what? That’s life. Some people fold. Some people spiral. Some people rise. Which one are you choosing to be?

2. Everyone is lost.
Your boss? Lost. Your parents? Lost. That girl who posts perfect brunches on Instagram? Also lost. The difference is they’re hiding it better. You? You’re awake. You see the chaos. You feel it. That’s called being alive.

3. Comfort is overrated.
Soft life sounds cute until reality hits. Growth is messy, lonely, and scary. Stop pretending you need everything to be easy. Stop apologizing for struggling. Struggle is proof you’re moving, evolving, becoming unstoppable.

4. Chaos is your crown.
Every heartbreak, betrayal, failure, and late-night spiral is sharpening you. It’s not breaking you, it’s sculpting you into someone untouchable. Someone who doesn’t settle. Someone who doesn’t need permission to be loud, emotional, and unapologetically alive.

✨ Permission List

• Permission to be messy. Life isn’t neat. Stop pretending it is.

• Permission to say no. To people, to obligations, to energy that drains you. Your time is sacred.

• Permission to outgrow anyone. Some people leave, and that’s how it’s supposed to be.

• Permission to trust yourself above all. Your instincts, your rules, your boundaries, unquestionable.

• Permission to fail. Falling isn’t losing, it’s learning. And you’re winning every time you rise.

💌 Reflection Prompt

Where in your life are you pretending everything is fine just to look “normal”?
Who or what are you holding onto that’s slowing you down?
Write it down. Feel it fully. Then ask yourself: Am I showing up for myself, or for everyone else’s comfort?

🎧 Music Rec

Billie Eilish – “idontwannabeyouanymore” 
→ Spiraling, raw, emotional self-reflection. Perfect for those nights when you feel messy, heavy, and unapologetically yourself.

💥 Real Talk

Life doesn’t owe you comfort. Life doesn’t owe you answers. Life doesn’t owe you clarity. And honestly? You don’t need it to. You just need to show up. Loud. Messy. Angry. Heartbroken. Wild. You need to be alive, truly alive, in the chaos, in the storms, in the fire.

Your pain isn’t a flaw. Your scars aren’t ugly. Your chaos isn’t brokenness. It’s power. It’s clarity. It’s proof you survived when everyone else folded.

✨ Babe, Hear This

You are not behind.
You are not too much.
You are not weak.
You are becoming.
You are alive in a world that’s asleep.
And you? You are untouchable.

So stop pretending life is pretty. Stop shrinking. Stop apologizing for existing fully, fiercely, loudly. The storm doesn’t scare you. You are the storm!

Felipa XOXO💌