We grow up being told to be strong — to hold ourselves together, to keep going, to stay unshaken no matter what the world throws our way. Strength becomes a kind of armor we learn to wear early. We associate it with resilience, with survival, with being unbreakable. But there’s another kind of strength, one…
There are seasons when silence feels like peace — when the quiet hum of morning coffee or a walk through empty streets feels like a kind of healing. But there are also seasons when that same quiet feels unbearable. When the stillness you once craved becomes a weight pressing on your chest. We don’t often…
There are seasons in life that teach us more through loss than through gain. The kind where your hands ache from holding too tightly, but your heart aches even more at the thought of release. I’ve lived through a few of those — the kind where you keep telling yourself maybe one more try, one…