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IAProud to be Māori. This moko kauae is more than what you see… it’s generations, resilience, and identity etched into my skin.
I don’t expect everyone to understand it… but respect on my page is not optional.
For a long time, I let the opinions of others shape how I showed up.
As my posts reached further and the comments increased—both good and bad—my nervous system hit its limit.
So I withdrew.
I became a shell of myself… scared to post, scared to speak, scared to be seen.
But through deep release, healing, and rewiring, especially through breathwork… I found my way back to a simple truth:
I am enough.
I am whole.
I am perfect just as I am.
And no one hiding behind a keyboard gets to take that away from me.
And I want to emphasise this: there’s no hate here. No animosity.
Only compassion.
Because I can’t help but wonder… what kind of inner world creates the need to diminish someone else’s identity.
#maori #moko #mokokauae #culture #identity
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