Breaking

These last few months have held some really intense challenges for my family and I. The kind that shake you down to your core and make you question everything about yourself, what you believe, and how you’re going to pick up and move forward.

I thought about telling you about how the seal broke on my inability to cry and how I big fat ugly sobbed for multiple days in a row, but what I really want to say is that these bottom-of-the-valley moments have reminded me so much how important it is to lean into our pain and feel it. Let it break you. Let it change you. Let it shake up everything you knew to be true because that’s the thing that makes you the incredibly strong, courageous, real person that you are.

These moments may feel impossible at the time, but they’re the very foundations upon which your strength grows from. Don’t let your heart grow weary; know that you are becoming the you that you were meant to be. Keep going. Keep leaning in. Keep letting it suck, because on the other side you are going to be stronger and braver and wiser than you could have ever imagined.