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Standards Are Love in Form: Honoring Your Sacred Boundaries

Oct 22, 2025

Standards are not walls.
They are prayers in form -
a way of saying,
I remember who I am.
(When I remember who I am, I can see you clearly too)

Standards are love dressed in clarity.
Love that chooses not to shrink
just to be understood.
Love that knows -
when I honor myself,
I model to others how to love themselves too

Standards are not being hard
They are about being true.
They about saying yes
only when your whole body whispers yes.
It’s about letting your no
be an act of devotion
to the softness you are guarding within.
And to let your yes be real and true and reverberate with clarity.

Your standards are sacred boundaries -
not to keep others out,
but to choose to keep your heart in truth
to love freely, honestly, endlessly.

When we hold our unique standards
with tenderness instead of defense,
With confidence and nurturance
they become a gift.
They invite only what is real to stay.
They let love rise
to meet you where you actually live -
not where you used to hide to be understood

So keep your standards high,
not from fear,
but from reverence.
This is how love deepens -
by honoring what is true.

Standards are frequencies.
They hold a remembrance inside of them of who you are when you choose to not abandon yourself/your desires for crumbs of connection.

They are love in form, devotion. The kind that says, I will not override the intuition or desires or way that the light of the infinite wants to move through me.

Standards are connected to knowing your energy is sacred, your love is medicine, and you will treat yourself like you matter, because you do.

To have standards is to love yourself enough to walk away when your soul says no, even if your fear says stay. It’s to hold your own hand when someone tells you to lower them, and hold what is true for you.

When you hold your standards with softness, they become an invitation, not a barricade.

Let your standards be a love commitment to your fullness, your energy, showing up in the world as someone with capacity for life, in the way life was always meant to move through you.

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