Born Wild: Remembering Who We Were Before the Labels

We are born wild and whole.

Unlabeled. Uncontained.

But somewhere along the way, the world decides it needs to shape us - to make sense of us, to fit us neatly into boxes so it can teach, manage, and explain what it doesn’t understand.

“ADD.” “Learning disabled.” “Too much.” “Too little.”

And in believing them, we forget who we were before they told us who to be.

But identity is not truth.

It is only the story we choose to keep repeating.

When I stopped claiming my labels - when I came face to face with my pain, my addictions, my depression and anxiety - I began to remember.

The warrior in me rose.

The sage in me spoke.

And I chose to become who I was always meant to be.

We are not our diagnoses.

We are not our past.

We are the ones who rise from it - sword in hand, rewriting the story, choosing truth over title, and freedom over familiarity.

We forge new identities with every act of courage, every choice to begin again.

Each moment we refuse the old labels, we carve new meaning into our becoming.

This is the art of remembrance - and the birth of who we truly are.