In early December 2023, after years of carrying painful family grief and self-doubt, one ordinary morning unraveled into the kind of heartbreak that made me feel invisible, lost, and no longer able to pretend everything was “fine.” At a small kitchen table filled with tears, I realized I couldn’t keep shrinking myself to belong—I had to choose my wellbeing, even if that meant stepping away from what hurt. That night, in a dream that felt unmistakably life-changing, I heard a message from somewhere beyond me: “There are 6 million reasons for you to carry on…6 million reasons you are good…6 million reasons to let your inner light shine.”

When I woke up, I was crying—not from despair, but from relief, joy, and a calm I hadn’t felt in a long time. I promised myself I would let my inner light shine, and I began writing my first story: “6 Million Reasons to Let Your Inner Light Shine.” What started as a whisper became a practice—counting hope, goodness, and possibility one step at a time. And that’s how #6MillionReasonsTo… was born: a growing movement for all of us to hope, shine, dream, explore, dare, start, listen, believe, love, heal, forgive, and connect—because we each have millions of reasons to keep going.