{monday's mantra}

Oh, Monday...hope you all had a great weekend and Mother's Day! I feel like I'm constantly behind on blogging, so I want to apologize first and foremost. Hopefully I will be able to get my sh** together this week enough to get back on schedule! I guess it happens to all of us sometimes, especially since wedding season is now in full swing and I've spent the last two weekends away from home. Just part of life, I suppose!

I'm just now sitting down to blog this week's mantra, but I've known about it since last Monday when I watched this video. I know I mentioned it already on the blog, but I absolutely love Sara Bareilles and her message for women everywhere. 

You can be amazing 

You can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug 

You can be the outcast 

Or be the backlash of somebody’s lack of love 

Or you can start speaking up 

Nothing’s gonna hurt you the way that words do 

And they settle ‘neath your skin 

Kept on the inside and no sunlight 

Sometimes a shadow wins 

But I wonder what would happen if you 

Say what you wanna say 

And let the words fall out 

Honestly I wanna see you be brave 

With what you want to say 

And let the words fall out 

Honestly I wanna see you be brave 

I just wanna see you 

I just wanna see you 

I just wanna see you 

I wanna see you be brave 

I just wanna see you 

I just wanna see you 

I just wanna see you 

I wanna see you be brave 

Everybody’s been there, everybody’s been stared down 

By the enemy 

Fallen for the fear and done some disappearing 

Bow down to the mighty 

Don’t run, stop holding your tongue 

Maybe there’s a way out of the cage where you live 

Maybe one of these days you can let the light in 

Show me how big your brave is 

Say what you wanna say 

And let the words fall out 

Honestly I wanna see you be brave 

With what you want to say 

And let the words fall out 

Honestly I wanna see you be brave 

Innocence, your history of silence 

Won’t do you any good 

Did you think it would? 

Let your words be anything but empty 

Why don’t you tell them the truth? 

Say what you wanna say 

And let the words fall out 

Honestly I wanna see you be brave 

With what you want to say 

And let the words fall out 

Honestly I wanna see you be brave 

I just wanna see you 

I just wanna see you 

I just wanna see you 

I wanna see you be brave

Happy Monday friends. What's your mantra this week?