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Healing Isn’t an Aesthetic — It’s an Alchemy
🌺A Wildflower Expressions Blog Healing has become something people feel strangely entitled to evaluate. As if there’s a correct pace. A socially acceptable presentation. A quiet, humble version that doesn’t take up space or shimmer too loudly. But healing was never meant to be performed for approval. It’s an internal process — and it belongs solely to the person doing the work. I read a post recently that offended me, and for a moment I couldn’t understand why. Instead of re
kelseyclay9
2 days ago3 min read


Year 33: Still Standing
A Wildflower Expressions Blog 🌺 On December 21st, I step into my thirty third year of life, and before I move forward, I need to pause. Not because I am tired, although yes, but because the woman I am now deserves to look back and say we made it. From 2021 to now, life did not just test me. It tried to dismantle me. Three mental breaks. Three moments where everything inside me said I cannot do this anymore. And yet, I did. I rebuilt from scratch more times than I can count.
kelseyclay9
5 days ago2 min read


🌾 Where Wisdom Still Blooms
A Wildflower Expressions Blog There is a generation above us who carry a quiet kind of wisdom that the world seems to be losing track of. They come from a time built on calloused hands, slow mornings, and communities that leaned into one another instead of pulling apart. It was a time when hard work was not a slogan or something you admired from afar. It was a rhythm. It was a way of life. Neighbors borrowed sugar, shared milk, watched each other’s children, and trusted the p
kelseyclay9
Dec 113 min read


When the Universe Brings A Soul Back: Reflection on Reconnection
Reconnection is a reminder that nothing true is ever lost. It may go quiet. It may rest beneath the surface for a while.
kelseyclay9
Dec 83 min read


🌼 Where Your Energy Flows, You Grow
A Wildflower Expressions Blog There’s a quiet rhythm to the world, an unseen current that runs through all of us. Energy. Not the kind you can measure or calculate, but the kind you feel move through your chest, your mind, and your spirit. It flows through your thoughts. It settles into your breath. It shapes how you show up in your day. Just like water, energy moves best when it’s allowed to flow. 🌾 When Energy Gets Stuck Sometimes we get so caught up in doing everything “r
kelseyclay9
Dec 32 min read


🌾Loved, but No Longer Aligned
A Wildflower Expressions Reflection on Growth, Boundaries & Sacred Love There comes a moment on every woman’s journey - that quiet, trembling moment - when your heart whispers a truth you’ve been trying to ignore: “I can’t keep watering a garden that refuses to grow with me.” It’s not anger. It’s not bitterness. It’s not revenge or resentment. It’s release. It’s growth. It’s the soft, sacred knowing that your spirit has outgrown the space you’ve been squeezing yourself into.
kelseyclay9
Nov 243 min read
🌿 Where Boundaries Bloom: Gentle Parenting vs. Permissive Parenting
A Wildflower Expressions Blog 🌼 Gentle Parenting vs. Permissive Parenting: Why They’re Not the Same (And Why I Chose Gentle) There’s this running joke online that “gentle parenting is just letting kids run wild with fairy dust and zero consequences.” Except—no. Absolutely not. Gentle parenting is not permissive parenting. One is wildflower wild—soft, rooted, resilient. The other is more like… dandelion fluff in the wind—floating wherever the breeze takes it. And that differe
kelseyclay9
Nov 193 min read


🌾 The Beauty of Being the Outsider
An honest reflection on being the outsider — learning to stand firm in your purpose, embrace grace over doubt
kelseyclay9
Nov 92 min read


🌷 The Gift of Affirmations: Little Words, Big Magic
Each phrase redirects the moment. It’s small, but it’s enough.
kelseyclay9
Nov 62 min read


🌿 Becoming Seen: What I Bring to the Table as a Small Business Owner
And when you create from the heart, something magical happens: the universe starts to move with you.
kelseyclay9
Nov 53 min read


🕊️ Part 4: Dear Love, You’re Safe Here
You’ve sat in hospital waiting rooms, folded laundry at midnight, and held my hand through panic and pain. You’ve seen me at my worst —
kelseyclay9
Nov 22 min read


🧡 The Colorful Lie: Why Our Kids Deserve Better Than Food Dyes 🧡 By Wildflower Expressions
Our children deserve more than artificial color and chemical sweetness. They deserve foods that nourish their bodies, not confuse them.
kelseyclay9
Nov 12 min read


🌷 Part 3: Dear Faith, Thank You for Staying
No one spoke peace into me the way you could with just one breath.
I thought I’d lost you when life got heavy, but really, you were teaching me that belief isn’t built in the light — it’s built in the dark.
kelseyclay9
Oct 312 min read


🎃 The Wild Origins of Halloween: From Spirits to Snickers Bars
The idea of dressing up and visiting homes wasn’t new either. Medieval Europeans had a tradition called “souling,” where the poor would go door-to-door offering prayers for the dead in exchange for food. Later, children began to take over the custom — dressing up and performing little songs or tricks in exchange for sweets or coins.
kelseyclay9
Oct 313 min read


💭 Part 2: Dear Anxiety, We’re Done
Dear Anxiety, We’ve been together for a long time — longer than I care to admit. You showed up uninvited and convinced me I needed you to survive. You told me if I kept worrying, I could prevent bad things from happening. If I stayed alert, I’d stay safe. If I stayed small, I wouldn’t disappoint anyone. For a while, I believed you. You were the background noise of my life — whispering what ifs into my coffee, stealing my breath at red lights, following me into grocery aisles
kelseyclay9
Oct 292 min read


💌 Part 1: Dear Me, I Forgive You
I forgive you for chasing approval from people who never learned how to love you without conditions. For staying too long where your light was dimmed. For all the “should have known better” moments that still echo when you close your eyes.
You did the best you could with what you knew at the time.
kelseyclay9
Oct 272 min read


Faith Over Doubt
It reminded me that doubt doesn’t cancel out faith; it gives it room to grow. Faith isn’t loud or fancy—it’s scribbled in the margins…
kelseyclay9
Oct 232 min read


The Many Versions of Me: A Hilariously Honest Look at How I Apparently Exist in Everyone’s Mind
Sometimes people see something in you that isn’t actually about you — it’s about them. Their own fears, insecurities, or expectations paint over who you really are.
To one person, I’m “too sensitive.” To another, I’m “strong.” To someone else, I’m “too opinionated,” while another says I “inspire honesty.” All the same woman. All true. All false.
kelseyclay9
Oct 215 min read


Rooted in Grace 🌿
I’ve stopped trying to erase my memories; now, I water them with gratitude. Because every heartbreak, every misstep, every wilted season tau
kelseyclay9
Oct 201 min read


Growing Together Through the Seasons of Marriage
What I love most is he still make me laugh harder than anyone ever could. That laughter has carried us through seasons of stress
kelseyclay9
Oct 182 min read
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