BLACK SHEEP x SIMONE JULIA UNIVERSE

You may know me as Indonesia’s first World Jiu-Jitsu Champion

But here’s a little secret.
Even though I appear strong and capable on the outside,
I’m still learning how to love
without leaving myself behind.

For a long time, I lived in my masculine.
Always doing.
Pushing.
Enduring.

My life taught me that being strong
was how I earned love.

Lately, I’ve been questioning what my existence really means to me. Do I want to keep giving everything away just to feel enough?

No.

I’m learning that vulnerability doesn’t make me weaker.
It is me in my feminine.
A dusty rose sanctuary I can return to.

As Osho shares,
“If you love a flower, don’t pick it. Let it be.”
Because love is not possession.

This is my permission
to honour who I am,
and who someone I love is,
without conditions.

It means embodying both my feminine and my masculine.
Accepting that good things can meet me
without always being forced.

The Amour Necklace reminds me of this truth:
that I am multifaceted.
That love for myself and for others doesn’t have to be extreme to be real.

And for any woman in a male-dominated sport:
it is okay to show up as a woman
and still win.

Because winning, too,
can look like honouring
who we are.