This January, I chose to step away. Not because I was burned out — though many are. Not because I had nothing to give — though many do. But because I felt a sacred invitation to pause… before the pouring cost me more than I realized. Sabbatical is not absence. It is presence — redirected. When I stopped moving, producing, responding, and holding space for everyone else, I finally had the courage to hold space for myself. And in that stillness, something unexpected happened: m

Honor what carried you here. Celebrate the quiet victories. Remember: you are not behind — you are becoming. As the year draws to a close, many of us feel the familiar pull to evaluate everything — what we accomplished, what we didn’t, what we wish we had done differently. Calendars turn, social media recaps flood our screens, and suddenly we find ourselves measuring our lived reality against someone else’s curated story. Yet very few of us truly pause long enough to celebra

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