Some people will only remember the version of you they met when you were breaking. But that version was never your whole story. I’m learning I don’t need every circle to accept me or every person to understand my heart. I just need the courage to keep showing up, keep growing, and trust that God will place the right people along my path. Maybe the most beautiful things really do grow from the places that once felt the most broken 🌸

Resiliency has become such a recurring theme in my life. I’ve had plans completely fall apart. I’ve had doors close that I was absolutely positive were supposed to open.

That reframing doesn’t magically fix everything, but sometimes it opens a window. A breath of air. A little light.

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.

And when you create from the heart, something magical happens: the universe starts to move with you.

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 —

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.

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.