9.15.25

Change will ask a lot from you. It will ask you to show up differently, to stop performing and to feel what you have been avoiding. But none of that is beyond what you can do (bit by bit).

You have already survived so much. You already know how to stay in hard things.
It is time to step away from the patterns that no longer serve you, and into the change you crave.

9.14.25

You are not weird because you feel deeply. You suffer more when you try to make it stop. The truth is: sitting with sadness is easier than running from it. Feeling grief is more grounding than burying it. Emotions pass faster when you stop fighting them.

9.13.25

“Traumatized people often keep recreating trauma in their lives, not because they want to, but because they are trying to resolve something that remains stuck in their system.” - Bessel van der Kolk

This is why we need to process our traumas, they keep showing up in our lives until they are no longer stuck in our bodies. 

9.12.25

What if the people-pleasing is not who you are, but what you had to do to stay connected?
When love felt conditional, when approval meant survival, your system adapted. You smiled. You complied. You over-functione

9.11.25

Grief is love.

There is no grief without a level of love.

Let yourself feel the grief today, the grief, that life comes with the truth, that we lose what we love.

Let this grief remind you to love fiercely. 

9.10.25

Change rattles the nervous system. That is normal.
It does not mean stop, it means this is new.
Let that be your confirmation to keep walking forward.

9.9.25

I am no longer here to be who others need me to be.

I am here to be who I truly am without shrinking, pleasing, or rescuing.

I feel most alive when I stay grounded in myself.

9.8.25

Self-connection takes effort.  It asks you to slow down, to feel, to stay present, to be with what is happening. What you gain from this effort is feeling more fully alive.

9.7.25

You will never feel 100% ready, and some part of you knows: this choice, this step, this risk - it matters.

Not because it guarantees success, but because it honors who you are becoming.

9.6.25

When I do too much for others, it is not because I am generous.
It is because I am scared.
Scared of being unloved, scare of not being enough, scared of sitting with my own needs.

But I am learning to pause, to breathe, and to stay with me.