🪞 Every fear has an opposite waiting to be remembered. May I remember that I am… 💫
Sometimes the most unexpected moments hold the biggest lessons. I wasn’t even looking for inspiration that day — just scrolling, half-distracted, when a short clip of Tracee Ellis Ross stopped me in my tracks.
There was something about the calm in her voice, the way she spoke about her inner world with such honesty. She said:
“I will do my list, right? I resent. I’m afraid. I will do my list. Resent. I’m afraid. Whatever those things are, I get it all out. I do the circles of the deep ones, the big ones. Then I create a prayer out of that.
I take those words, and I try to flip them. What is the opposite of that? What is the feeling that that is not giving me that I want?
And then I create a prayer that is: May I remember that I am…”
Whew. I had to pause. Because how often do we sit in our fears and resentments, naming them over and over, but never transforming them?
When she said, “May I remember that I am,” it hit me — she’s not asking for anything outside of herself. She’s calling herself back home.
She gave an example:
“I’m afraid I will never find partnership.”
“May I remember that I am worthy of belonging and connection.”
That’s it.
That’s the bridge.
From fear to remembrance. From anxiety to truth.
I realized, so much of what we call “healing” is really just remembering who we were before fear told us otherwise.
So tonight, I took out my notebook and tried it for myself. I wrote:
I resent feeling unseen.
I’m afraid of being misunderstood.
And then I flipped them:
May I remember that I am seen by the Divine, even when the world doesn’t notice.
May I remember that I am deeply understood by my own soul.
It shifted something in me. My heart softened. The tension left my body. Tracee’s practice reminded me that the goal isn’t to silence our fears — it’s to meet them, listen, and then gently guide them home to truth. Because every fear has an opposite waiting to be remembered.
Create Your Own Remembering Prayer
- Make your list.
Write freely: I resent… I’m afraid… I feel… Don’t hold back. Empty your heart onto the page. - Circle the deep ones.
Notice the ones that sting — the ones you avoid reading twice. Those are the roots, not the weeds. - Ask the sacred question:
“What is the opposite of this fear or resentment? What is the feeling I’m actually longing for?” - Transform it into a remembering prayer:
Begin with:
May I remember that I am… and finish the sentence with your truth.
Example:
I’m afraid of failure.
May I remember that I am guided, and every step leads me closer to alignment.
- Repeat it when the fear comes back.
Because it will. But this time, you’ll have something stronger — your own words of remembrance.
✨ Try it tonight. Turn your fears into prayers. Let your pain remind you of your truth. And when you whisper “May I remember that I am…” — know that the universe is whispering it right back.
Salima
Just me thinking out loud over here