When you’re praised for always being strong, it becomes a quiet pressure. You start to believe that’s who you have to be.

We spend so much time trying to belong. But real belonging doesn’t ask us to shape-shift. The right people won’t ask you to be less.

We live in a world that constantly tells us we need to be more. Do more. Prove more. Achieve more. Fix more. And somewhere along the way

Loss, in all its forms, doesn’t just leave a space. It reshapes us. It shifts how we see the world, how we move through it, and who we are