This is real, this is me this is exactly where I am supposed to be

Demi Lovato and The Jonas Brothers Augast 2025

Waking up Monday mornings are always the hardest for me (like many people). I wake up, check my email and Instagram and usually continue on with my day but this Monday was different. I opened my Instagram to one of the biggest surprises in my life but before I tell you what that is we got to take this back a week ago.

A week ago my friend decided to ask me if we should go and see a concert this weekend. I thought about it but thought it would be too hard with my family going away for the weekend and also understanding the importance of family time I felt pulled in many directions. I was a little sad about it but I understood why I was doing it.

Flash forward back to Monday morning. I opened my phone to friends going to the concert and I felt okay knowing that I did the right thing until I saw the videos of Demi Lovato and the Jonas brothers singing. I have been the biggest Demi Lovato fan for my whole life. I have written school papers on her mental health story that resembled a lot of my own story as well as her ability to discuss mental health awareness through her music and her personal connection and her personal story. I always felt a strong connection to her story and her experience. Even using her music as a healing tool for myself during the good and the bad times. Using music that she wrote or writing similar music to her in order to heal. I am also very much a Disney kid but also a OG Demi Lovato fan from when I was two or three watching Barney.

When I was a teenager all I wanted to do was go see Demi Lovato in concert (and I have the bang pictures to prove it) but due to my own struggles I was never able to go and see my idol perform live. To say Monday morning I was in a bad mood was an understatement. I went through the stages of the should haves, anger and flat out depression but then I decided it was time to work on my radical acceptance. I gave myself the space (and the many calls to my friends venting about the concert) to feel my feelings. Could this have been a healing experience absolutely but it was up to me how I would find the healing even if I didn't get to see Demi perform. I listened to Demi during the day, I danced out my frustration and also practiced my best to radically accept the event and understand that this is reality but that I can see her another time (hopefully soon I mean FAST just came out) not in the most iconic camp rock reunion but her own concert.

Radical acceptance doesn't mean pushing away, it means accepting what is for the moment. No I cannot and we cannot change the past but we can accept it, hold onto the feelings and work on looking towards the future and finding our own way towards healing. As Demi and Joe sang so beautifully Do you know what it's like to feel so in the dark to dream about a life where you're the shining star… I have to believe in myself is the only way… This is real, this is me and this is exactly where I am supposed to be now gonna let the light shine on me, a song so beautifully written, a song teaching us the lesson of radical acceptance and self love all in one nostalgic anthem.

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