Cultivating Self-Acceptance in the Soil of Life’s Challenges — In the garden of my soul, seeds of doubt lay sown,
Watered by tears, nourished in the shadow’s keep.
Through tangled weeds of fear, a timid bud has grown,
Timid yet earnest, emerging from the deep. But life’s a diligent gardener, with lessons keen to share,
It prunes with trials…