August Is for Alignment: Stop Forcing What’s Already Falling Apart

August Is for Alignment: Stop Forcing What’s Already Falling Apart

There’s something sacred about August.

It’s not just another month—it’s the beginning of your emotional harvest season.
The month where the things you've been pushing, dragging, or performing finally show themselves for what they are:

Unaligned. Expired. Done.

And the truth is—you already knew.
You just kept hoping it would fix itself if you showed up harder.

Stop Forcing What’s Already Falling Apart

This is your confirmation:
If it’s crumbling, let it.

Stop resuscitating what God is trying to bury.
Stop over-explaining your softness to people addicted to your strength.
Stop begging systems, cycles, and situations to work that clearly aren’t designed for who you’re becoming.

August is not about effort—it’s about alignment.

When It’s Right, It Doesn’t Feel Like Choking

You shouldn’t have to lose your peace to prove your worth.
You shouldn’t be walking on eggshells in friendships you’ve outgrown.
You shouldn’t feel like you’re auditioning just to be chosen by people who benefit from your brokenness.

Listen to me:
This month is not about pushing. It’s about pruning.

Realignment Is a Form of Rebirth

You’ve been growing. Quietly. Fiercely.
But parts of you are still negotiating with your past—still trying to hold on to patterns that feel familiar even though they drain you.

This month, make room.

✨ For deeper rest
✨ For softer yeses and unapologetic no’s
✨ For ease—not because life is easy, but because you’re done with self-inflicted struggle

If It’s Meant to Stay, It Won’t Require a Fight

Read that again.

Whether it’s the relationship, the offer, the job, the idea, the self-image—if it keeps requiring force to function, it’s not in alignment with who you are now.

Let August be your permission to stop holding it all together.

Want Help Letting Go and Getting Aligned?

Start with this:

  • Light a candle.

  • Put on HER ERA in the background.

  • Grab your copy of The Audacity to Be Her.

  • And write: “What am I still forcing out of fear?”

🎧 Stream HER ERA on YouTube
🖤 Get The Audacity to Be Her journal
💭 And let this month soften you toward your truth.

Because you don’t need more time.
You need alignment.
And it starts with letting it fall apart—on purpose.

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