A LETTER TO YOUR FUTURE SELF

There’s something incredibly powerful about sitting down and writing to the version of yourself you hope to become.

Not the “perfect” version.
Not the healed version.
Not the version that suddenly has everything figured out.

Just the version of you that’s trying.

The version of you that’s making an effort to show up differently.

I have participants inside Be Your Own Guru do this before they begin the course, and then I encourage them to read the letter again at the end of the program.

But honestly?
You can do this process at any point in your life.

Whenever you feel yourself entering a new season…
Whenever you know change is needed…
Whenever you feel disconnected from yourself…
Whenever you’re trying to build new habits, heal patterns, regulate your life differently, or reconnect to who you actually are…

Write the letter.

And don’t just type it in your notes app while distracted.

Actually write it.

Use paper.
Fold it up.
Date it.
Mail it to yourself.
Tape it somewhere private.
Open it in 3 months, 6 months.

There’s something psychologically different about physically writing your thoughts down. It slows you down enough to actually hear yourself.

Sometimes in these letters, you’ll realize how hard you’ve been on yourself. Sometimes you’ll realize you’ve spent years minimizing your own growth because you only focus on how far you still have to go. Sometimes you’ll recognize that the version of you writing the letter is already stronger than they think. And maybe when you reopen it months later, you’ll realize something important:

You’re further along than you thought.

Not perfect.
Not finished.
But different.

Maybe your habits improved, your boundaries, your self-respect improved, and
maybe you finally stopped abandoning yourself every time life became uncomfortable.

And if you haven’t become everything you hoped yet?
Give yourself grace.

Growth is rarely linear.

The point of this process isn’t perfection.
It’s awareness.
It’s intention.
It’s honesty.
It’s creating a moment where you consciously choose to participate in your own life instead of sleepwalking through it.

So write the letter.

Apologize to yourself if you need to.
Encourage yourself.
Tell yourself the truth.
Tell yourself what you hope this next chapter looks like.

And most importantly:
Remind yourself that uncomfortable feelings are not proof that you’re failing.

A lot of the time, discomfort is simply evidence that change is happening around you. You can either become familiar with discomfort and learn to move with it or spend your life avoiding it…That choice is yours.

If you’re reading this during the Be Your Own Guru pilot launch:
The program officially opens free to participants May 17 and closes publicly July 17.

And if you’re reading this after that window, the course is likely available for purchase.

Either way, I hope you write the letter.

Brittany Kate

I hope you choose yourself.
And I hope future-you gets to look back and feel proud that you started.