Vicki Raines-Independent Mary Kay Consultant

There’s a version of her that most people never see.
It’s the one that learned a long time ago how to keep going no matter how she felt.
The one that figured out how to keep it all together without anyone noticing her battles.
People call her strong.
She'll just shrug at that.
She just does what she has to do.
But strong wasn’t something she tried to become.
It was something she grew into quietly , because she didn't have another option.
She didn’t wake up one day brave, she just did what she had to do.
She just kept getting back up, kept going.
Even on the days she wanted to stay down.
Even when her voice cracked.
Even when no one cared.
Especially then.
Her strength isn’t in your face, loud and showy.
She doesn't care about proving herself or people noticing.
It’s in the way she is silently strong.
The way she regroups privately.
The way she refuses to let the hardest chapters define her whole story.
And if you look closely,
you’ll see that what people admire now about her.
She was forged in the fires that she never thought she’d make it through.
Strong, quiet, unassuming.
Free, passionate and beautiful,
Just the way she is.
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