The part no one warns you about.

You feel restless. Emotional.
Tired in a way that rest doesn’t immediately fix.

You laugh one minute and feel unexpectedly heavy the next.

You question things you never questioned before—your role, your pace, your purpose, even parts of yourself you once felt sure...

Every year it happens.

We set goals the beginning of January. We feel hopeful. We promise ourselves this will be the year things change.
And then somewhere around mid-January, the energy fades.

The motivation dips.
The excitement quiets.
And people start wondering what’s wrong with them.

Here’s what...

We have all felt the sting of being left out. Standing on the edge of a circle, pretending not to care. Scrolling through pictures of a gathering we weren’t invited to. Watching laughter from across the room and wondering why no one asked us to join. Smiling on the outside while aching inside, quest...

There’s this unspoken message out there that dreaming is for the young.
That there’s a window—and if you didn’t climb through it by a certain age, well, maybe you missed your chance.

I never bought into that.

I’m still dreaming.
And I don’t plan to stop.

Maybe the dreams look a little different n...