DREIESKIVA​|Roald Kvam

True transformation doesn’t come from cutting parts of yourself off. It comes from integrating them with grace.

Your past self is not your enemy.
They are not a mistake to erase.
They are a part of the story that made you who you are.

That version of you?
They tried.
They survived.
They learned.
They failed at times—but they kept going.

Now they’re handing you the baton.

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Will you blame them—or thank them?

We all carry versions of ourselves we’d rather forget—choices we wish we could undo, moments we wish we had handled better, patterns we hope never to repeat.

But your past self was doing the best they could with what they knew.
And now you know more.
You are more.

Growth doesn’t mean rejecting who you were.
It means honoring their effort—and choosing to move forward differently.

Transformation is not about shame.
It’s about stewardship.

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Wholeness begins when you stop punishing your past.

When you hold on to resentment toward who you were, you fracture yourself.
You carry emotional weight that drags your future down.

But when you embrace that past self with honesty and grace, something powerful happens:

You begin to integrate.
You no longer have to pretend or hide.
You don’t have to rewrite your story—you redeem it.

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You don’t live there anymore.

But you can be grateful you once did.

There’s wisdom in those old chapters.
There’s evidence of resilience.
There’s proof that you’ve grown.

And while you don’t need to stay there, you can look back and say:
“Thank you for getting me this far. I’ll take it from here.”

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Let grace guide the next step.

You don’t have to be at war with who you were.
You don’t need to erase the parts of yourself that were messy, unsure, or unfinished.

You just need to choose:

Choose to run with the baton you’ve been handed.
Choose to build forward—not in spite of your past, but because of it.
Choose to walk in wholeness, not perfection.

Because healing isn’t about becoming someone else.
It’s about becoming fully yourself—with all your chapters intact.

So thank your old self.
And then… keep going.
You’ve got a race to run.