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Understanding is all I have wanted out of life for a while now.

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The most important thing for us women and men to remember is to treat our body as a precious gift that God gave us. And to respect it while we explore and go on our adventures through life.

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I find it very easy to talk about my condition in a positive light, but the one thing that is very hard to talk about when it comes to my cerebral palsy is the fact that I also have severe depression and anxiety almost every single day.

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My best-kept secret is out, splashed across the Internet where it can be liked, commented on, shared with the world and potentially trolled. Why, then, do I often feel so afraid to reveal my secret, my disability, “in real life?”

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It’s fostering self-love and self-acceptance, understanding that your body and your mind are perfect as they are and that defying conventional beauty standards will help change the world for the better.

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The girl who swore she would never, ever tell anyone about her cerebral palsy is now practically a walking billboard for CP awareness. Who still can’t really use a letter opener.

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While I am learning how to “adult,” I am also learning how to age – and how to gracefully lose some of my physical strength and abilities.

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I was in the NICU for the first three months of my life.

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I bump shoulders with friends and walk into doors. I am jealous of the strong and feel for the weak. I try to push myself each day, to stand a little taller, to be a little stronger.

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Try to live your life with ONE HUNDO PERCENT honesty. When you do this, every experience just opens up to you.